Is the market for late-stage venture-backed companies is falling apart? Sven Weber of SharesPost Investment Management discusses the numbers.

"Trust and discretion will soon return as the most sought-after commodities."

Leonid Shabad looks at university entrepreneurship in Russia in his guest comment for Global University Venturing.

Tony Hickson, managing director technology transfer at Imperial Innovations discusses the development of patient capital as an instrument to fund UK science companies.

Philips Lighting's Erik Vermeulen made a case for taking the corporate out of corporate venturing and instead focusing on the creation of an ecosystem based on seven strategies.

Sir Michael Barber and Katelyn Donnelly from Pearson Affordable Learning Fund shared lessons and insights from investing in for-profit startups in the developing world.

Tom Whitehouse, chairman of LEIF, invited questions from the audience for a panel made up of investors in the advanced materials space.

Mark Bidwell, alliance partner at Clareo, moderated a panel in which Thomas Birr, Bruce Dines and Lana Glazman described how their businesses are responding to disruptive changes in their industries.

Nobuyuki Akimoto of NTT Docomo Ventures and Telstra Ventures' Matthew Koertge explained their units' differing approaches to CVC in the telecoms space.