Corporate venture capital (CVC) units help their ventures flourish by offering value-adding services. Effective CVC initiatives offer services that help ventures design, implement, and manage activities to create and capture value.
Our qualitative multiple case study across 26 CVC units reveals a comprehensive set of value creation and value capture services that these units offer, configured in any of four different ways to provide tailor-made support for specific venture needs and sponsor strategic goals.
The configurations of CVC unit services in our data suggest a taxonomy of types derived from the service configurations and strategic focus areas of our participants. This taxonomy has four groups: Harvesters,Builders, Enablers, and Observers.
The Harvester…
