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Steps on the road to being an adept venturer.

American companies lead corporate venturing approaches to entrepreneurs targeting the poor.

California leads financial innovation race

In last month's Global Corporate Venturing, I covered one of the two macro objectives: the financial effectiveness of corporate venture capital (CVC) programs. Now we'll turn to some principles and implementation guidelines for measuring the strategic effectiveness of the CVC unit.

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.