That the two research institute remain shareholders is positive for the company as well as potentially a source of profits back to the academics.

In one of the trashy films watched on my last flight was a nice line: – cost is not the same thing as value.

The line was used to justify paying $20 for a hot dog but it could also be applicable to what could be applicable to Samsung Venture Investment Company, the corporate venturing unit of the eponymous South Korea-based conglomerate’s, first potential exit from its European team set up two years ago.

Novaled, a Germany-based organic light-emitting…