corporate venturing

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corporate venturing

a situation where a major company takes a minority stake in a new or relatively new company and injects cash into that company. However, corporate venturing may go much further than the provision of finance, and may involve a cross-fertilization of skills, talents, know-how and expertise which may be of benefit to both parties involved. See VENTURE CAPITAL.

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In this way, corporate venturing operations help their corporate parents identify novel opportunities that exploit existing assets and competencies.

The state of corporate venturing: insights from a global study: a global study of leading corporate venture units offers some insights into current venturing strategies and practices

This book provides a general overview of corporate venturing including how to (1) get started: (2) identify, evaluate, and select an opportunity: (3) select, evaluate, and compensate venture management; (4) locate the venture in the organization: (5) develop a business plan: (6) organize and control the venture: and (7) cope with organizational politics.

NAPECOR's risk management venture: note to instructors

This, experts believe, is because the tax relief benefits available have led many firms to examine the terms of the corporate venturing scheme in more detail.

Tax benefit scheme popular

The case-study participants all had stand-alone corporate venturing teams with strategic goals explicitly focused on value creation, long track records, and established processes for identifying and pursuing venture investments (Table 1).

Corporate venture capital investments for enhancing innovation: challenges and solutions: corporate venture capital investments can be a powerful tool for exploring and exploiting innovation opportunities, but in order to reap the full strategic value of venturing activities, companies must be prepared to match practice to strategic goals

Companies are increasingly using corporate venturing to learn from knowledge sources beyond the boundaries of the firm.

Explorative and exploitative learning from external corporate ventures

Two thirds of the top 100 US companies are thought to be either using or thinking of using corporate venturing as a means of finding new customers, new markets and new technologies.

Blind date Angels step in to match perfect partners

Writings by Chesbrough and Socolof (2000), Leifer, McDermott, O'Connor, Peters, Rice, and Veryzer (2000), and others suggest that Lucent is something of an exemplar in the arena of corporate venturing, having received much recognition in the business press for its New Ventures Group.

Exploring the practice of corporate venturing: some common forms and their organizational implications

John Jackson, corporate partner at the Birmingham office of DLA, said: 'Even if the West Midlands only goes part of the way to emulating the US experience, then corporate venturing activity stands to sky rocket over the next 12 months.'

Legal & Finance: Corporate ventures up as markets slide

Shell, Nokia and IBM made appealing case studies because their CV is thriving and delivering credible results for more than a decade (see "Corporate Venturing in Practice," below).

Designing ventures that work: a study of successful and unsuccessful corporate ventures yields guidelines for designing ones that are more likely to achieve their goals

The role of the venture champion in the corporate venturing process is the subject of limited discussion in the relevant literature (Burgelman, 1988; Venkatamaran, MacMillan, & McGrath, 1992; Shane, 1994; Guth, 1997).

The Corporate Venture Champion: A Resource-Based Approach to Role and Process

Both start-ups have proven their unique capabilities and expertise in innovative digital go-to-market business models,' said Gesa Geissel, Head of Corporate Venturing at Henkel Beauty Care.

Henkel Beauty Care expands expertise in new digital go-to-market business models