The US-based chip-maker has reformed its corporate venturing strategy in an effort to be more "creative" in the way it helps entrepreneurs.

US-based chip-maker Texas Instruments (TI) has completed a strategic review of its corporate venturing programme which has extensively changed its approach in an effort to make sure it is more in synch with its business units.

The effort will now see the group’s corporate venturing unit focus on core markets for TI such as energy, solid state lighting, security and analytics and healthcare technology, as well as capabilities, such as various kinds of sensors, man-machine interaction, high voltage and cloud…