Corporate Venturing

Fast track route to growing your business through the entrepreneurial management of new ventures

Covers the key areas of corporate venturing from identifying the main options to setting objectives, and from aligning the interests of corporate investors and entrepreneurs to maximising your return on exit

Examples and lessons from some of the world's most enterprising corporate ventures, including Intel, Sun, Eisai and Cambridge Technology Partners. Plus ideas from the smartest thinkers and practitioners in corporate venture investment, including Josh Lerner, Fergal Mullen, Will Schmidt and John Wall

Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide

Introduction to Corporate Venturing

What is Corporate Venturing?

The Evolution of Corporate Venturing

The E-Dimension

The Global Dimension

The State of the Art

In Practice: Corporate Venturing Success Stories

Key Concepts and Thinkers

Resources

Ten Steps to Making Corporate Venturing Work

Frequently Asked Questions

Index NICHOLAS KING is a specialist in entrepreneurial management and organizational behaviour and works as an independent business adviser in dynamic entrepreneurs. He has written for Computing, Management Consultancy and The Observer and is also the author of two ther ExpressExec Enterprise titles. Fast track route to growing your business through the entrepreneurial management of new ventures

Covers the key areas of corporate venturing from identifying the main options to setting objectives, and from aligning the interests of corporate investors and entrepreneurs to maximising your return on exit

Examples and lessons from some of the world's most enterprising corporate ventures, including Intel, Sun, Eisai and Cambridge Technology Partners. Plus ideas from the smartest thinkers and practitioners in corporate venture investment, including Josh Lerner, Fergal Mullen, Will Schmidt and John Wall

Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide

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