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Eli Lilly's first portfolio company acquisition

Cleveland Clinic allies with MedStar

"This is a time for great opportunities to develop novel diagnostic tools, therapeutic agents and medical devices for unmet patients' needs, and that a diversified, multidisciplinary team is a must to develop these opportunities."

London's global appeal as a cultural centre with relative tolerance, combined with its research base across the Golden Triangle, gives it access to scientific and entrepreneurial talent to capitalise on the combination of complicated technology with soft-information skills from media and other services.

Banks maintain historical rates to invest in private comapnies and then advise on their flotations.

The lessons from the best practices are captured in the Global Corporate Venturing Best Practices and Awards supplement.

Supplement covering the best practices shown by the industry over the past year as well as award winners from the inaugural Global Corporate Venturing event.

Research by Gary Dushnitsky, associate professor at London Business School, revealed at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium on Wednesday found the outperformance covered both a company's market value to book value ratio and their innovation capacity, as judged by patents.

This feature is part of a 12-month overview highlighting the best practices in the industry, which will form a supplement at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium and Banquet on May 18 - see related content.

"Everything is possible, but nothing is easy."

There is an opportunity to source-adapt-integrate-adopt a new breed of advanced technologies into new platforms and leapfrog entire legacy generations of capabilities.