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.

Stars align for Cognovo's creation out of UK-listed semiconductor designer ARM.

Global Corporate Venturing editor James Mawson was a conference advisory board member at the IBF 13th Annual Corporate Venturing and Innovation Partnering conference February 16-18, 2011. (see quotes at bottom of article.)

David Teten, chief executive of Teten Advisors, with Chris Farmer, venture partner at General Catalyst Partners, make five recommendations to improve the volume and relevance of dealflow.