Energy

Utilities fall back on longer-term plans to drive innovation in the sector.

In order to provide the right answers, the corporate venturing fund manager will need to break out of the traditional corporate venture fund structure and strengthen alliances beyond its home sector.

Entrepreneurism explodes as shackles fall away in India.

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?

Global Corporate Venturing's round-up of deals struck in July published on the website.

Wouter Jonk, managing director of SET Venture Partners, an independent firm with local utility Delta as a limited partner, has become a board member of NGenTec.

Yvette Go, investment manager at SET, said: "With MicroShade, PhotoSolar has a great product in hand."

Yvette Go, investment manager at SET, said: "O-Flexx's proprietary thermo-electric solution is absolutely unique. What makes the technology significant is that it opens up markets where electricity generation from waste heat was never feasible before."

RWE Innogy has agreed to sell up to 100 units of the wind turbine in Germany by the end of next year.