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- the undertaking of an investment initiative by a commercial organization to gain experience of a new technology or an unfamiliar market
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- The purpose of this paper is to comment on the challenges that Corporations find when deciding to setup an equity investment arm: Corporate Ventures CVs. This paper will focus on three different challenges, covering the reasons why Corporations decide initiate CVs, the main structural differences between CVs and Venture Capital...
- White papers 2006-01-07
- Selection in Corporate Venturing
- This paper argues that the ability to select more profitable ventures while at the same time avoid selecting away promising ventures is dependent on not only the choice of selection strategies but increasingly on the corporate venture firms' selection capacity. This capacity is largely a function of the committed participation...
- White papers 2005-05-04
- Internal Corporate Venturing Cycles: A Nagging Strategic Leadership Challenge
- Thirty years of systematic study reveal that many major corporations experience a strange cyclicality in their Internal Corporate Venturing ICV activity: Periods of intense activity are followed by periods of shutting down such activities only to be followed by a new cycle a few years later. Based on analysis of...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Corporate Entrepreneurship: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained?
- Corporate venturing is often thought to have a somewhat dubious track record in delivering benefits to parent organizations. In contrast, independent VC firms employing limited partnership structures have become highly prominent in the private equity market and have historically outperformed the S&P 500 index. Accordingly, a number of theorists and...
- White papers 2004-09-24
- Corporate Venturing in Denmark
- This paper argues that Corporate Venturing CV, i.e. activities where an existing firm actively invest in a new start-up, is a much more widespread phenomenon in Denmark than official sources claim. In addition to large CV oriented corporations such as NKT and B&O, many medium sized firms and even quite...
- White papers 2004-02-27
- In Search of Corporate Renewal - Focus on Corporate Venturing
- In today's rapidly changing business environment established companies venture to sustain growth and corporate renewal. But developing new business from scratch takes time. Thus companies find it hard to justify investments in venturing: when measured by financial terms only, the track record of corporate venturing is poor. This paper drafts...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Corporate Venturing - The Rolls-Royce Model
- Rolls-Royce had previously become involved in Corporate Venturing in the late 80s and early 90s with what many might view as some success. With a dedicated team of three or four they had achieved a revenue from licensing of several million Pounds a year. However, in the bearish mood of...
- White papers 2003-12-22
- Corporate Venturing? Make Sure its Cautious Venturing
- Working with corporate venturers can provide venture capital and private equity firms with a rich source of investment opportunities. Corporate venturing can entail different things, depending on the corporate in question. A question remains in the minds of many VC investors: is the reduction in operational and competitive risk merely...
- White papers 2003-11-26
- Corporate Venturing Modes and Their Impact on Corporate Learning
- Learning and increased innovation are often mentioned as some of the key benefits from corporate venturing for corporations. However, little research exists that would analyze whether there are systematic differences in learning outcomes across different governance modes. This paper systematically analyzes how the governance choice between different external corporate venturing...
- White papers 2003-10-03
- Adventures In Corporate Venturing
- From the executive summary: ‘Companies that are successful in developing new ventures have a clearly articulated portfolio management strategy covering five areas: type of business opportunity, capital investment parameters, degree of operational involvement, links with core businesses, and other such objectives.’ The companies prefer creating a separate subsidiary because the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Corporate Venturing Performance: An Investigation Into the Applicability of Venture Capital Models
- This paper reports a study that examined this assertion more directly through surveying 95 corporate venture units across 3 continents (Europe, South East Asia and North America) and examining the association between their organizational structures, management practices and investment practices, and multiple measures of venture unit performance. Regression analyses found...
- White papers 2003-01-02
- External Corporate Venturing - Exploration and Exploitation
- External corporate venturing, which is new business creation activity through organizational modes such as corporate venture capital, alliances, acquisitions, or spin offs has received relatively scant attention in the corporate entrepreneurship literature. Based on seven in-depth case studies of large European and U.S. firms in the information and communication technology...
- White papers 2001-12-17
- Angry Employees Sue Enron
- The recent corporate frauds led employees of various companies to keep a tab on the daily operations. As a result of the frauds, the trend toward corporate venturing has virtually died down. However, not all major companies have abandoned their corporate venture operations. A number of businesses actually increase their...
- White papers 2001-11-26
- Corporate Venturing: Gold Mining or Fool's Gold?
- This paper begins with a discussion of corporate venturing basics including the rationale for initiating a corporate venture group, a comparison to traditional venture capital firms, and the many approaches to corporate venturing. Next there is an in depth discussion of the current corporate venture landscape including examples of successful...
- White papers 2001-05-15
- Breaking the Frame: Radical Change Through External Corporate Venturing
- Recently several authors have argued that faced with dramatic change, the firm needs to expand its search space beyond local search to develop new cognitive frameworks that can guide behavior in the changed or changing environment. This paper contributes to this emerging stream of literature by investigating mechanisms that enable...
- White papers 2001-05-01
- External Corporate Venturing: Bridging, Execution, and Value Enactment
- Building on Eisenhardt & Martin, this paper examines one important dynamic capability of firms, that of External Corporate Venturing ECVC. The external corporate venturing capability consists of the following elements: ability to bridge between the corporation and the start-up community; and ability to execute venturing relationships for the rapid development...
- White papers 2001-04-01
- Building External Corporate Venturing Capability: Initial Conditions, Learning Processes and Knowledge Management
- How firms build new capabilities to adapt to changing environments is in the core of strategic management. However, only recently research has addressed this question. In this paper a model has been developed that lays out how firms develop a capability to create and develop ventures through corporate venture capital,...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Corporate Venturing Without Tears
- It’s all the rage, but it’s not for the fainthearted. More than a few companies have spent tens of millions of dollars on new ventures only to find that the market has passed them by or wasn’t really moving their way in the first place. The solution is to put...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- Managing Innovation Through Corporate Venturing
- Innovation involves applying creative ideas to find solutions to organizational problems. It enables organizations to overhaul their systems and processes and increase the quality of their products. However, the paper argues that a certain degree of commercialization is required to successfully use innovation for better results. A related model is...
- White papers 2000-04-01
Additional Resources
- Astral and Kootenay Drill 8m at 8.31 g/t Gold on the Jumping Josephine Gold Project
- Astral Mining Corporation (TSX VENTURE: AST)(PINK SHEETS: ASMGF)(FRANKFURT: A7D)(WKN# A0JDX3) ("Astral" or "the Company") and joint venture partner Kootenay Gold Inc. (TSX VENTURE: KTN) are pleased to announce the second batch of assays from two HQ drill holes of the 30 hole, 5,000m diamond drilling program currently underway on the...
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