Return from summer sees the industry facing three issues: early-stage investing, integrating corporate venturing into a broader innovation strategy and longer-term investing.

This month’s issue of Global Corporate Venturing welcomes people back from their summer holidays to three of the most interesting issues facing the industry currently and pulling teams in different directions.

First, corporations have spent the past few years looking ever earlier into the lifecycle of entrepreneurs to see how they can support them.

As our analysis of the rise of corporate-backed incubators and accelerators shows, there is attention on the ideas that might disrupt and provide opportunities for…