Best Practice

More corporations are setting up venture studios. They work well with CVC units as long as you understand the strengths of each.

As corporate investment units get bigger, they need a mix of skillsets and career levels — and a good COO to manage them.

Cogent Venture Partners' Mario Augusto Maia talks about the transition from financial asset management to CVC, and how to deal with the hurdles involved.

To be truly effective, an innovation team needs freedom to operate, a separate measurement framework and incentives.

How you set up effective performance metrics for teams whose outcomes are a combination of tangible and intangible effects, is often as much about influence and learning, as it is about revenue.

Intel Capital, Echo Health Ventures and Fenwick & West shared advice on how to prep an investment team for a tough funding climate.