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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..
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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..
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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 ..
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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..
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The race for AI
Tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) have all been aggressively acquiring AI start-ups for the last decade.
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CVN collaborates with Klever to connect ecosystem
CVN connects the ecosystems of its members by using the Klever collaborations platform
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Big Tech Venturing and Acquisitions
Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google — known as the Big 4 — we encounter in many facets of our lives. But they didn’t get there alone. They collaborated with and acquired hundreds of companies ove..
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Apple’s quiet Corporate Venturing tactics
Companies such as Google, Facebook, Intel and Amazon expand their capabilities by going for multi-billion-dollar deals. Likewise, Apple has also made this type of deals like the $3 billion deal for he..
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Commission launches European Innovation Council to help turn scientific ideas into breakthrough innovations
The European Commission launched at an online event, the European Innovation Council (EIC) with a budget of over €10 billion for 2021-2027 to develop and expand breakthrough innovations.
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Successful Corporate Venturing & Entrepreneurship Summit 2020
The second Corporate Venturing & Entrepreneurship Summit - Academics Meet Practitioners, is a one-day summit which brings together the latest insights on corporate venturing & entrepreneurship, both f..
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Grant for research on effect of Covid-19 on innovation and corporate venturing
Which factors determine whether innovation and corporate venturing activities survive a crisis such as Covid-19? Prof. Vareska van de Vrande from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RS..
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Matching Europe’s best SMEs to business challenges: EIC Multi-Corporate Day
The European Innovation Council Business Acceleration Services brings with Cumulus Park and Corporate Venturing Network together four Dutch Corporate giants (Eneco, KPN, Rabobank and Unilever) and inv..
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