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CVN’s creed is ’CVN; for the members, by the members and through the members’. We are a peer-to-peer network organization sharing best practices and collaborating on creating tangible leads and global new business initiatives. We operate as a professional association for corporate innovation and venturing professionals.
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Collaborative Discovery Programme
In a new reality, corporate innovation requires more than one-time events. When data and opportunities seem to be overwhelming, we'd like to distill the noise. We'd like to explore with you a new way to discover global startups & scale-ups: KLEVER Decision Rooms - virtual workspaces to make strategic tech decisions collaboratively
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To get a better understanding of the VC landscape leading European Business Schools and Universities have joint their efforts and conducted a broad study of VC practices in Europe, summarized in an insightful report
The Sopra Steria Group together with Ipsos and INSEAD professors, carried out a comprehensive survey of some 1,648 startups and corporate organizations, both public and private, from 10 European countries to evaluate how the corporate-startup collaboration phenomenon across Europe is evolving.
MedLimwhich is a MedTech startup accelerator program initiated by Medtronic and LIOF, together with the expertise centers Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus, Medace, and imec.istart.
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Erasmus University Rotterdam
Utrecht (location to be anounced soon)
Fujifilm Europe
CVN is the cofounder together with RSM/Erasmus university and University Tilburg of the Corporate Venturing & Enterpreneurship community. We are an international community of corporate venturing professionals, researchers and entrepreneurs. We exchange the latest insights on corporate venturing, collaborative innovation and entrepreneurship and discover together new concepts and ways of working.
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'This is an essential reference for anyone interested in corporate venturing. It is full of helpful insights, and is illustrated with loads of great examples.' (Henry Chesbrough, professor at UC Berkeley and author of Open Innovation). In this book Corina Kuiper and Fred van Ommen describe how Corporate Venturing is part of the company’s ‘innovation family’, where babies and teenagers are the new business initiatives and the parents and grandparents represent the established business.
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