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Healthcare corporations are filling a void left by retreating venture capital firms in their sector.

Panel on why firms are raising so many funds, and so many are outside of the US? Stephen Ziff from Coller Capital moderated the panel.

Panel on the next generation of corporate venturing leaders, moderated by Neil Foster from Baker Botts.

Justin Adams, ex-head of Emerging Business and Ventures at BP, reflects on corporate venturing and its future models.

Panel on how can firms deal with a globally-distributed, cross-sectoral innovation landscape, moderated by Andrew Gaule from Corven.

Panel on the role of governments to help the ecosystem, moderated by Erik Vermeulen from Philips and Tilburg University Law School.

Global Corporate Venturing Panel Discussion on Venture Connectivity, moderated by Erik Sebusch from CMEA Capital.

As the founder of one of the firms that has just been backed said: "My theory is that any company able to hold out to 2014 will be a winner."

The new world order aspect comes from how corporate connections are powered.

The challenge of managing a diverse set of strategic LPs is an area of increasing importance to many venture capital firms.

The corporate venturing groups were certainly impressed by the watchman in this case, as they voted Hijazi's company the "most investable" among the 15 finallists at the competition, held in partnership with American Security Challgenge.