Startups

The first of three articles in BMG's Corporate Venturing "How to" Series - part I by Patty Burke (pictured).

The era of the star dealmaker necessarily running a venture capital firm as an amateur manager is increasingly over and into this era of greater professionalism has come US-listed bank Citigroup.

The effect of corporate VC investments on productivity turns out to be "negligible", according to the report, Venture capital: Policy lessons from the Vico project - a European Union-funded research of 8,370 European high-tech entrepreneurial firms.

A long-term strategy that is paying dividends for the US oil major's corporate venturing unit.

Factors in the demise of a promising start-up heavily backed by venture capital firms and US government loans.

The battle to keep it clean means corporate venturing groups from a diverse range of businesses are converging on clean-tech - and finding a receptive audience for their investments.

How to strike deep partnerships in which well-established corporations put skin in the game via research dollars, joint development agreements, channel partnerships for customer acquisition or even equity investments.

Measuring investment effectiveness: first of two articles on how to track and measure a corporate venturing unit's success.

Global Corporate Venturing has researched the status of most of the corporate venturing-backed companies that have filed or been reported as eyeing an imminent flotation.

International study on the strategic use of venture capital in managing innovation