How to pitch a corporate venturing unit to your board by Chirag Patel, managing director and head of corporate ventures, Highnote Foundry.

A sales and marketing look at how to turn round a business when it is missing its plan.

The oil and gas industry holds promise and danger in equal measure for water-tech innovators and their venture capital investors, writes Wayne Evans, vice-president industrial technology, Veolia Water Technologies.

Tom Whitehouse, chairman of London Environmental Investment Forum, explores trends in clean-tech.

Andrew Gaule talks to Michael Blaustein, managing director of DuPont Ventures

Comment: Tracy Isacke, managing director, corporate venturing, Silicon Valley Bank

Whether you are an entrepreneur like Jasminder Singh Gulati, Boaz Hecht or Itay Braun, a corporate venturing unit looking for exciting young companies to invest in, or a business looking towards the future, we are all part of the start up ecosystem and have the ability to make a difference.

What are the differences between a spin-out and a licence in university technology transfer? How do you decide which to do? Tom Hockaday discusses the pros and cons.