Reed Elsevier Ventures is one of the few corporate funds set up in 2000 - the heady days of the dot.com bubble - to be celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Diana Noble, a former partner at Schroder Ventures (now Permira), was persuaded to lead it and first to join her was Tony Askew. Kevin Brown followed as a principal and was promoted to partner the next year. Noble stepped down as managing partner at the end of 2004 to join the William J Clinton Foundation and Askew took the reins. The three of them discussed with editor James Mawson in last month's issue how the venturing team was originally architected and, in this second article, Reed Elsevier Ventures' approach to investing.

Software AG, the second-largest software vendor in Germany, examined how and whether to set up a corporate venturing unit and decided against it a few days before gaining expected ratification from the full board. Global Corporate Venturing editor James Mawson spoke to Frederic Hanika, senior vice-president and head of mergers and acquisitions.

A hybrid approach of open innovation and corporate venturing can foster greater diversity and speed.

In the fourth of a series of monthly interviews with leading venture investors, Andrew Gaule, left, founder of the H-I Network and Corporate Venture Senior Executive Forum, talks to Jelto Smits, a partner of Prime Technology Ventures

Companies are best when portfolio out their corporate venturing unit's portfolio when the division is managed independently.

Digital platform-based applications are the investment for the next 14-year cycle.

Patrick McGovern, founder and chairman of International Data Group, discusses launching a venturing unit, in China, and his plans for the future.

Though media has grown in economic importance, few countries have sponsored funds to boost innovation across a broad part of the industry beyond niche areas, such as film-making. One to have significantly invested in the sector is Singapore.

In the third of a series of monthly interviews with leading venture investors, Andrew Gaule, left, founder of the H-I Network and Corporate Venture Senior Executive Forum, talks to Sridhar Solur, director of Mobility Solutions at HP who is leading the ePrint venture.

Facebook's increasing dominance poses for Google and other internet-focused companies a sort of Facebook versus Rest of Web (RoW) challenge.