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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.

US-listed chemicals company Dow is an old hand with new tricks when it comes to corporate venturing by moving its strategy towards strategic rather than financial goals.

Family office Black Coral Capital led the round for Powerit Solutions with a consortium including Germany-based conglomerate Siemens, steel company ArcelorMittal's Clean Technology Fund, and venture capital firms @Ventures and Expansion Capital Partners.

Bright Capital, the corporate venturing unit of Russia-based industrial conglomerate Ru-Com Group, and US-listed transport company Waste Management are the two corporations in Genomatica's $45m round.

Jim Barry, chief executive of NTR, will be chief investment officer on the $110bn BlackRock Alternative Investors platform's new renewable power investment team.

1366 said it had raised $28.4m in total by adding GE Energy Financial Services, a division of US-listed industrial conglomerate General Electric, and venture capital (VC) firm VantagePoint Venture Partners to its previous consortium.

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

A powerful partner with wide range of interests, conglomerate General Electric has the most influential corporate venturing unit in the industrial sector.

Gold an important precious metal for industrial innovation.

Global Corporate Venturing ranking of the most influential corporate venturing units at industrial companies.

The power of imagination is keeping old and new industrial groups developing through corporate venturing.