By Ezra Carlson, who is an innovation and corporate venturing consultant and recently completed his doctorate at the Cranfield School of Management. This article partly draws on his research at Cranfield.

In a recent poll running in October and November of corporate venturing industry leaders, Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) asked what the most important trends were in 2021

Comment by IESE Business School co-authors Josemaria Siota and professor M JuliaPrats, together with researcher Vittoria Emanuela Bria

Comment by James Mawson and Nicolas Sauvage, managing director of TDK Ventures

Comment by Matthew Crupi, Chris Johnson and David Crawford, Bain

Comment by Simon Bond, SETsquared

OSI portfolio company First Light Fusion’s co-founder and CEO, Nicholas Hawker, explained how his company’s nuclear fusion technology could contribute to net-zero targets.

GCV’s James Mawson interviewed Energy Transitions Commission chair Lord Adair Turner on the hydrogen space.

Brown Rudick’s Neil Foster moderated a discussion between National Grid Partners’ Ian Cooper, Baker Hughes’ Luca Maria Rossi and ZeroAvia’s Katya Akulinicheva on the fuels of the future.

Lord Gerry Grimstone, UK minister for investment, gave a keynote on the development of a fertile environment for the growth of decarbonisation technologies.