Startups

Light Blue lasers in on European innovation

A combination of perfect venture capital group criteria is found in China's growing private equity market.

The impact of technology on e-commerce - online sales - is leading to the spread of real-time trading, from stock exchanges to almost every business sector, from airlines to auction rooms and retail sales.

E-commerce comes of age with venture investment in online sale analysis company.

Once a technology company has decided to break the cultural tendency of employees to undervalue things "not invented here" and to look externally for growth or insights, money is not the only technique to find and gain a collaboration with the other business.

Analysis of the importance of lending to venture-backed companies.

Technology-focused corporate venturing deals with a decade of boom, bust and back to growth again.

Pat Hyek, global technology industry leader at Ernst & Young, analyses the future for technology.

Observations from studying large multinational companies by
Johann Jakob Napp, Centre for Technology Management, University of Cambridge

Steven Kaplan, Neubauer family professor of entrepreneurship and finance, and faculty director of the Polsky Entrepreneurship Center, at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, and Josh Lerner, Jacob H Schiff professor of investment banking at Harvard Business School, analysis the data behind venture capital's prospects and finds the future brighter than pessimists expect.

Global Corporate Venturing round-up of last month's deals involving a corporate venturing unit across all sectors.