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Practices of European Venture Capitalists

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 in..

“Surviving the Storm”: how corporate-startup collaboration is the key to thriving amid economic turbulence.

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 count..

MedLim

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.

THE 2023 INNOVATION AGENDA

Wellspring published a report on the changes in the innovation agenda in 2022, discussing the impact of the pandemic and the inflation following it.

Looking back at Dutch Design Week 2022

3 Box Solution

In his book The Three-Box Solution, Vijay Govindarajan offersed a simple and framework for leading innovation

A Proven Model for Corporate Venturing from BCG

Large companies are upping their emphasis on growth through innovation by building new businesses, products, and services. Here’s how Boston Consulting Group sees how to overcome the odds and find b..

Startups warned for bad weather ahead

Crashing tech stocks in public markets, record inflation levels, the prospect of rising interest rates and a wider economic slowdown set the scene for difficult times for startups. Therefore, Y Combin..

European investment in and development of fundamental technologies is lagging behind competitors in the US and Asia.

The problem is that European investment in and development of fundamental technologies is lagging behind competitors in the US and Asia in cross-sector technologies like quantum computing, digital inf..

Why CVC’s share of the capital pie is growing

Venture investment has grown more than ten-fold over the last decade, and corporate investors' share of that has gown even faster. In 2011, only one in 10 deals included a corporate investor. Now it's..

Sequoia breaking from the VC model to hold public stocks longer

Sequoia Capital is creating a new structure in which the 10-year fund cycle for returning capital to outside investors is eliminated and it can hold on to public companies longer to benefit more from ..

This is what Covid-19 did to innovation budgets

MIT and The financial Times reported on the Corporate Venturing Network and Erasmus study on the effects of COVID-19: More than a third of corporations cut their innovation budgets due to the Covid-1..