Corporate Venture Capital 2017 - Structures, Challenges, Success Factors

Deutsch: Corporate Venture Capital 2017 - Strukturen, Herausforderungen, Erfolgsfaktoren

In a time of ever-shorter innovation cycles and the increased digitalization of many value-added chains, established businesses need to constantly evolve and reinvent themselves – even going so far as to rethink their core business.

Corporate Venturing, especially Corporate Venture Capital (CVC), can play a key role in the corporate innovation portfolio. CVC is the financing of innovative startups by established corporate investors. CVC offers corporate investors the opportunity to access new technologies and trends, and to gain important experiences in new market segments. If Corporate Venturing is implemented properly, it can also help nurture the corporate's intrapreneurship initiatives and offer attractive alternative development opportunities to the corporate's top talents.