In an increasingly global venture capital landscape, corporate venturing has a
unique part to play in turning the great potential offered by these transformations
into value for their corporate parents, write Boris Battistini, research associate, ETH Zurich, and Martin Haemmig, adjunct professor CeTIM at UniBW Munich and Leiden University.

The use of a portfolio of approaches to innovation taken by leading corporates has
a number of benefits, in the same way that investors will use a portfolio of asset
classes. The more corporates take this intelligent, portfolio approach to cleantech
innovation, the more chance we have of finding routes towards sustainable
prosperity, argues Jamie Vollbracht, former head of new ventures, innovation, at
Carbon Trust.

Clean technology continues to change our world, and as semiconductor devices
become ubiquitous due to growing consumer mobile demands, and the internet-of
things concept becomes a reality, support for innovative thought leaders should be
continued, argue Eileen Tanghal, senior investment director, Applied Ventures, and
Joe Dews, partner, AGC Partners.

SETsquared chairman Simon Bond discusses what barriers corporate venturing needs to overcome in 2013 and beyond.

Corporate venturing is becoming an important tool for big companies to complement internally driven innovation activities. However, becoming a serious player in corporate venturing requires governance principles and creates cultural dynamics that do not fit easily into existing corporate environments. This article discusses those challenges in detail and suggests ways to deal with them. Read the full article on page 31 of our February magazine.

This is an extract from an article by Gabriel Broner about Ericsson Innova, the innovation project he started. The full article can be found on page 27 of our February magazine, linked to in this article.

This article is an extract from the beginning of Eric Ball's February magazine piece on how academic thinking can inform venture investing. For Ball's full article, please go to page 22 of our February magazine.