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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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Critical review of the Horizon European program

A new study by Bocconi University’s Institute for European Policymaking and EconPol Europe finds that the EU’s €100 billion Horizon program has failed to significantly boost innovation, with most funding going to large firms and consortia that deliver limited long-term results.

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Corporate-startup collaboration is HOT!

Prof. Vareska van de Vrande of Erasmus/RSM moderated a panel at on the topic at The IMPACT Circle at Love Tomorrow, which was a great venue, interesting talks, and fascinating programme.

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Large Language models exhibit a significant generalisation bias and is significantly less accurate than humans

A study of Uwe Peters and Benjamin Chin-Yee shows a significant generalization bias in large language models (LLMs) when summarizing scientific research and generative AI is nearly five times LESS accurate than humans

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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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Corporate venturing, e-book

'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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