US venture capital trade body lies out its strategy to align its focus with corporate venturing groups.

In this double interview, Gaule's Question Time looks at two aspects of innovation and corporate venturing at Anglo-Dutch-listed consumer goods company Unilever.

Data mixed about how widespread the venture capital resurgence will be.

As part of a series of interviews with leading venture investors and developers, Andrew Gaule, founder of the H-I Network and Corporate Venturing Network, talks to William Taranto (pictured), managing director of Global Health Innovation Fund, Merck.

NVCA's new chairman, Paul Maeder, says corporate venturing has a role to play, but the biggest bugbear for venture capital firms about its peers comes from relatively slow sign-offs of legal or financial documentation for portfolio companies.

Reasons European venture capital struggles compares to US peers laid bare: the latter caters to the entrepreneur.

In respect of seed and venture capital (VC) funding, Heinz Oyrer posed the statement "The European market is more or less dead but the US is still open" to members of the European Entrepreneurship & Innovation @ Silicon Valley LinkedIn group.

Steps on the road to being an adept venturer

Alliance managers create opportunities through innovation across non-traditional industries, such as high-tech with healthcare, construction and energy, but the types of partnerships undertaken are evolving.

James Mawson, editor of Global Corporate Venturing, talks to Kyung Yoon, chief executive of Talent Age Associates, a global talent management firm at the start of a series of profiles of senior executives at multinational companies under the Innovation Talent Insights banner.