To follow in Hitachi’s footsteps, a corporate would need to build a small team, secure a small amount of capital and engage in a fail-fast methodology.

Hicham Abdessamad, chairman at technology producer Hitachi America, and Paul Holland, managing director and VC-in-residence at Mach49, have provided advice on how large corporations can achieve organic growth and how to partner with them at the GCV Digital Forum 2021.

Abdessamad and Holland discussed how Hitachi has been exploring social innovation and detailed the various corporate venture capital initiatives the company is currently involved in.

Abdessamad said: “Social innovation is something we started six years ago and it is simply…