BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Corporate Venturing
- the undertaking of an investment initiative by a commercial organization to gain experience of a new technology or an unfamiliar market
Additional Resources
- 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
- 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
- Time for firms to take new view of corporate venturing, BUSINESS TIMES
- Business Times Malaysia 07-05-2001 THE new economy has made it necessary to see corporate venturing in a new light, according to Accenture Business Launch Center. Corporate venturing is investing and leveraging on internal and external asse Business Times...
- Research articles 2001-07-05
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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: 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
- DSM Venturing, the corporate venturing unit of Dutch chemicals major Royal DSM , has invested $2m in Sol-Gel Technologies, a private early stage company involved in the development and commercialisation of safer and more effective dermatological products,
- DSM Venturing, the corporate venturing unit of Dutch chemicals major Royal DSM Heerlen, has invested $2m in Sol-Gel Technologies, a private early stage company involved in the development and commercialisation of safer and more effective dermatological products, including sunscreens, anti-acne and anti-ageing products. Sol-Gel Technologies is based on technology that...
- Research articles 2006-10-02
- DSM Venturing, the corporate venturing arm of Dutch chemical major Royal DSM has acquired a 10% share in Swedish advanced material company Micromuscle
- DSM Venturing, the corporate venturing arm of Dutch chemical major Royal DSM has acquired a 10% share in Swedish advanced material company Micromuscle Linkoping, a developer of electro-active polymers for use in medical devices and life science product applications.
- Research articles 2006-12-04
- DSM Venturing, the corporate venturing arm of Dutch chemical major Royal DSM has made an undisclosed investment in US green plastics company Novomer, based in Ithaca, New York, in a financing round that also included Flagship Ventures and Physic Ventures
- DSM Venturing, the corporate venturing arm of Dutch chemical major Royal DSM has made an undisclosed investment in US green plastics company Novomer, based in Ithaca, New York, in a financing round that also included Flagship Ventures and Physic Ventures. DSM and Novomer are also signing a cooperation agreement covering...
- Research articles 2008-01-14
- 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 - 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
- corporate venturing CVS A scheme designed to encourage established companies to invest in the full-risk ordinary shares of companies of the same kind as those qualifying under the Enterprise Investment Scheme ; the scheme encourages the inves corporate venturing CVS...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- Corporate venturing investment falls 91%.
- Byline: Guy Paisner Corporate venturing investment activity in 2001 slumped by 91% from 2000 levels, according to figures compiled by VentureOne, a US-based venture capital research firm. The figures reveal that the cash invested by the venture divisions of big companies fell from...
- Research articles 2002-02-04
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Philips Partners with Venturing Firm for Spin Offs (Electronic News)
- New Venture Partners NVP, a corporate venturing firm, today announced that it had closed a partnership deal with Philips Research to identify and create spin-off businesses based on technology from Philips Electronics Nederland B.V.'s research arm New Venture Partners NVP, a corporate venturing firm, today...
- Research articles 2005-03-28
