Early Stage Report 2015: Nearly half of corporations look to universities for early-stage ideas. Many of the most innovative corporations look the most globally. Corporations running more accelerators and investing in the startups.

Early stage Report 2015: Universities are increasing, and increasingly diverse in, their entrepreneurial support programmes. Regional differences show continental Europe broadly behind the US and some emerging market academic institutions. Fewer than half of universities have specific corporate partnerships for startups.

The huge initial public offerings of Alibaba and Rocket Internet capped a hugely busy period for the consumer sector.

With the slow recovery from the financial crisis and divestiture strategies undertaken by some big players, 2014 was marked by numerous exits by corporate investors in the industrials sector.

Analysis of our data from 2014.

Global Corporate Venturing takes its annual look at the services sector.

Get a snapshot of our 2014 data, due to be published next month, with this infographic.