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Innovation capital’s paradigm shift

February 2022 editorial by James Mawson, editor-in-chief, Global Corporate Venturing

Services recover from the pandemic

Sector report: services

Strategic venture capital: funding and partnership

Stanford case study: Workboard

Two ways corporates can support women entrepreneurs

Corporate venture capital (CVC) teams are responsible for 24% of all venture capital investment, accelerating hundreds of startups a year. Yet CVC teams are potentially missing out on investment opportunities by not doing more to actively seek out and support women entrepreneurs with bankable projects.

Unleashing the innovation power of alliances

The development and deployment of covid-19 vaccines in less than a year was a stunning achievement for science. But it also illustrated the power of a particular kind of partnership: the strategic alliance.

Who should serve on your corporation’s investment committee?

Five qualifications to keep your organization from making dysfunctional decisions

China’s ecosystem evolves under pressure

Innovative region: China

Why Do Incumbents Fund Startups? A Study of the Antecedents of Corporate Venture Capital in China

Entrepreneurial ventures are an important source of economic growth and technological advance. China is a vibrant entrepreneurial setting, second only to the US in total startup numbers and funding amounts.

An investigation into the investment practices of venture capital firms in China: a comparison with Europe and the US

This is a provisional study ahead of a full paper presented at the annual conference of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) in Cardiff, Wales, in 2021.

Managing “forced” technology transfer in emerging markets: The case of China

Major challenges that foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) face when doing business in emerging markets, such as China, can be conceptualized in terms of the risks that host countries' institutions present to them.

Corporate venturing kicks off anew in January

Monthly data: January 2022