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In July, Nielsen set up an Israeli incubator in July with Bruce Haymes, senior vice-president of global business development and mergers and acquisitions at Nielsen, a board member.

Geopost, international delivery subsidiary of France-based La Poste, is stepping up its presence in corporate venturing and one of the companies it has could soon have Olympian Usain Bolt as a torch carrier.

The Flextronics International-backed human resources and finance software company plans to list ,after having raised about $265m in its history.

Just Dial plans to sell 9.55 million shares in its initial public offering managed by investment banks Citigroup and Morgan Stanley.

The investment follows AbsolutData hiring in March Sundar Ramaswamy, Abishek Sawhny and Rahul Monie as head of operations, finance and technology, respectively, in its Indian office.

OnLive restructures to leave corporations nursing their pain.

Spartan Race decrees "This is Boston" as the obstacle race company uses $4.25m investment from Jim Pallotta to set up Boston headquarters.

The question taxpayers, voters and employees will start to ask is whether government strategies are priming an innovation capacity in areas that a country, ie its companies primarily, have no interest or capacity to commercialise whether through corporate venturing and then acquisitions?