Industrial

Alongside the Wright Brothers Institute and the US Air Force Research Laboratory, Innocentive will manage theOpen Innovation Pavilion.

In a regulatory filing first seen by CityBizList, Solicore has Andrew Teichman, executive director of investments at OPG Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of Canada-based Ontario Power Generation, and Robert Daigle, chief technology officer of local industrial group Rogers, as its directors.

The lessons from the best practices are captured in the Global Corporate Venturing Best Practices and Awards supplement.

Limburg backs Q Chip and ACS Biomarker.

Alongside DTE Energy Ventures in the consortium backing QD Vision's $22m round were In-Q-Tel, which invests on behalf of the US intelligence services, and venture capital firms.

3M New Ventures has invested in GoNano Technologies, a developer and manufacturer of nanomaterials for pollution control and sensory technologies, and Ecovative Design, which uses mushrooms for packaging.

Supplement covering the best practices shown by the industry over the past year as well as award winners from the inaugural Global Corporate Venturing event.

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.

William Watkins, chief executive of Bridgelux, told news provider VentureWire: "We are very close. We're signing papers" with an undisclosed strategic investor with two new financial backers.

News provider Asian Venture Capital Journal said Itochu Technology Ventures' first close at $67m was equivalent to its first fund's final size.