The concerns held by most entrepreneurs and other venture investors about corporate venturing units are outweighed by the positives they can bring.

Venture capital (VC) firms claim their connections are highly valuable to portfolio companies and there is evidence to suggest this is true. But, by working together, do close-knit VC communities collude to depress valuations and prevent new teams from entering the market?

research from The Founder Institute argues against ageism when it comes to entrepreneurs. the author is 39.

Corporations venture into a world of innovation at the inaugural Symposium on May 18, 2011, at the Emirates Stadium (pictured), London, UK.

Research by Gary Dushnitsky, associate professor at London Business School, revealed at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium on Wednesday found the outperformance covered both a company's market value to book value ratio and their innovation capacity, as judged by patents.

There is an opportunity to source-adapt-integrate-adopt a new breed of advanced technologies into new platforms and leapfrog entire legacy generations of capabilities.

Reasons European venture capital struggles compares to US peers laid bare: the latter caters to the entrepreneur.

In respect of seed and venture capital (VC) funding, Heinz Oyrer posed the statement "The European market is more or less dead but the US is still open" to members of the European Entrepreneurship & Innovation @ Silicon Valley LinkedIn group.

Steps on the road to being an adept venturer

Colin Blaydon and Fred Wainwright, professors, Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth University, draw from proceedings of the National Venture Capital Association Corporate Venture Summit in November 2010 and written up by the Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth University.