Innovative region: France
France has much to offer the world of innovation and corporate venturing. This is so even though it is not Germany with its famed industry, nor the UK with its banking and services sectors, nor the US or China with their economic might.
A record level of corporate venture capital was comitted in France last year, and it is now neck and neck with Germany’s $1bn spent on corporate-backed deals last year.
Data provider Sifted noted France’s €3.7bn ($4.2bn) total…