After decades of on-again, off-again forays into corporate venturing, corporations have turned their engines on again.

Strategic investments that are no longer strategic

How an entrepreneur views strategic partnerships

Patterns are created in our childhood - the repetition of these patterns is what creates comfort, a sense of knowing and a sense of self.

As part of a series of interviews with leading innovation and venture developers, Andrew Gaule, founder of the Corporate Venturing Network, talks to Dr Josef Wu?nsch, managing director, BASF Venture Capital.

In order to provide the right answers, the corporate venturing fund manager will need to break out of the traditional corporate venture fund structure and strengthen alliances beyond its home sector.

Venture capital (VC) firms claim their connections are highly valuable to portfolio companies and there is evidence to suggest this is true. But, by working together, do close-knit VC communities collude to depress valuations and prevent new teams from entering the market?

To continue success: energise European SMEs and drive economic growth, bringing down national barriers and light the fire of cross-border investment.

Firas Raouf, an investor in early stage technology companies, gives his tips for what corporate venturers should expect from their portfolio company CEOs.

Robert Hisrich, Garvin Professor of Global Entrepreneurship and director of the Walker Center for Global Entrepreneurship at Thunderbird School of Global Management, discusses how to promote corporate entrapreneurship.