There remains continued growth of corporate venturing as it enters mainstream acceptance by companies around the world as a tool to help their innovation framework.
One of the clearest examples that corporate venturing is in its golden age was the buoyant numbers of delegates at the 14th Annual Corporate Venturing and Innovation Partnering conference presented by the International Business Forum in the US last month.
The organisers had twice as many attendees than expected for the firstday’s corporate venturing workshops organised by Andrew Gaule, founder of consultancy Corven Networks.
These workshops followed an opening discussion presented by Gaule and Robert Ackerman, founder and managing director of venture capital firm Allegis Capital, which specialises in working with corporations, about how to build a sustainable corporate venturing programme.
This topic was picked up through the three-day event as the speakers looked at how to build in greater stability to an…
