Corporate Venturing

Topics:
Innovation,
Venture Capital
Tags:
Benefits,
Compensation,
Corporate Venturing,
Finance,
Financing Startups,
Human Resources,
Investment,
London Business School,
Venture Capital
Source:
London Business School

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Overview: The purpose of this paper is to comment on the challenges that Corporations find when deciding to setup an equity investment arm: Corporate Ventures (CVs). This paper will focus on three different challenges, covering the reasons why Corporations decide initiate CVs, the main structural differences between CVs and Venture Capital (VCs) firms, and finally some of the main compensation difficulties and tensions that CVs can generate. This paper explores specific examples and general studies about some of the historic errors and success stories that large corporations have in this industry.

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Format: PDF | Size: 48KB | Date: Jan 2006 | Pages: 11

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