The Art of Corporate Venturing

Abstract 

The goal of the research project is to establish thought leadership and generate new knowledge on corporate venturing challenges. In this project we set-up a corporate venturing barometer to monitor the activity of corporate venturing in Belgium. We founded the first learning network in corporate venturing (Corporate venturing circle) bringing together leading managers in innovation from different corporates (Besix, Lotus, Colruyt, J&J, ING, Puratos, Helan, Mediahuis, Vincotte,…). Examples of different corporate venturing challenges that are being tackled in this project: 

  • How to measure the return on innovation? 

  • What are governance structures in corporate venturing for SMEs vs Corporates? 

  • Why are corporate vs SMEs engaging in corporate venturing? 

  • What are the different type of corporate venturing and how can you make a good composition of them? 

  • … 

Funding

PwC Belgium 

Researchers  

  • Robin De Cock  
  • Vincent Molly