In our series of articles Corporate Venturing on the Test Bench, Martin Haemmig and Boris Battistini review and analyse the latest trends.
Innovation partnerships between new technology ventures and their funding partners – venture capital (VC) firms and corporates – are essential to the success of these ventures. Such partnerships are, however, not always effective and easy to maintain. In fact, the tension between collaboration and competition with large corporates can also expose new technology ventures to risks of interest misalignments or misappropriation. This case is particularly relevant to the formation of ties between these ventures and the venturing arms of large, established corporations.
While the…
