This is a provisional study ahead of a full paper presented at the annual conference of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) in Cardiff, Wales, in 2021.

Entrepreneurial ventures are an important source of economic growth and technological advance. China is a vibrant entrepreneurial setting, second only to the US in total startup numbers and funding amounts.

Five qualifications to keep your organization from making dysfunctional decisions

The development and deployment of covid-19 vaccines in less than a year was a stunning achievement for science. But it also illustrated the power of a particular kind of partnership: the strategic alliance.

Corporate venture capital (CVC) teams are responsible for 24% of all venture capital investment, accelerating hundreds of startups a year. Yet CVC teams are potentially missing out on investment opportunities by not doing more to actively seek out and support women entrepreneurs with bankable projects.

Stanford case study: Workboard

Insights from Global Corporate Venturing 2021 by Emmanuel Benhamou, managing director, EAIGG

In February 2022, the GCV Institute celebrates its first birthday with the launch of the first corporate venture capital (CVC) operational and performance benchmarking platform. This will serve as a reference point for CVC strategic and operational planning as well as provide timely best practices data for the Institute’s professional development curriculum.

Given her role at the vanguard of the world’s efforts to transition to a lower carbon future, it is perhaps appropriate that peers describe Barbara Burger, Chevron’s vice president of innovation and president of Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), as a “force of nature”.

GCV Leadership Society chair's welcome letter by Jacqueline LeSage, Founder & Managing Director, Munich Re Ventures