Startups

Marketing its innovation credentials, WPP uses corporate venturing amid a broader acquisition and development strategy to transition to a digital future.

Business and legal imperatives for successful corporate innovation revealed

Intellectual property the bedrock of the modern economy but using that knowledge and valuing it correctly remains difficult.

Boutique service providers rather than large firms taste equity tidbits alongside a cash main course.

An entrepreneurial metamorphosis is taking shape in the Middle East.

The 2010 State of Innovation Report is the second annual analysis of 12 technology areas and their global innovation by the IP Solutions business of media group Thomson Reuters.

Corporate venturing has undergone massive changes in the past 50 years, tracking with the growth and evolution of venture capital (VC) in a sequence of phases or waves punctuated by economic downturns.

A round-up of corporate venturing deals.

Clean-tech dominates corporate venturing investment amounts rather than deal numbers as overall volumes and values start to rise again.

Intelligent Energy shows it has the power to push forward in renewable energy with its fuel cells for multiple transport and other purposes.

GM Ventures was launched in June 2010 and will be judged to what extent technology it invests in is part of the company's next generation of vehicles.