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Profile: Swisscom Ventures shows how a corporate venturing group can work in the utilities sector to build its reputation as a highly-successful and thoughtful unit.

Profile: DTE Energy Ventures shows regulatory impetus requires one of the US's largest and most influential energy companies to use venturing as a tool to meet its renewable power goals.

Case study: Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies shows how venture capital firms and entrepreneurs can work with utilities on innovation.

Global Corporate Venturing ranks the most influential corporate venturing divisions in the utilities, including telecom operators, sector.

Academic paper identifies reasons behind sector's poor venturing survival rates.

Utilities seek to escape their burning platforms into an era of new products and processes

Many corporations seeking innovation have implemented a venture capital model, but few have taken a serious look at the potential benefits of corporate venture debt.

Observations from studying large multinational companies

Table of the investments and exits/flotations involving corporate venturing units in July 2010.

Most active venture capital groups in technology sector, according to VentureXpert.

Table of the funds raised the penultimate year befor ethe millennium at the top of the dot.com boom.