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How Corporate Venture Capital Helps Firms Explore New Territory

Harvard Business Review

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it''s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. Effective means of boosting innovation already exist, but not enough companies are making use of them. I''ll describe both, but first let''s look at what''s wrong with some of the traditional sources of innovation.

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How Corporate Venture Capital Helps Firms Explore New Territory

Harvard Business Review

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it’s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. Effective means of boosting innovation already exist, but not enough companies are making use of them. You know those baby sea turtles that get eaten by birds and crabs on their way from the nest to the water?

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. For deeper technologies, you can’t always innovate at a venture capital cadence, where you have to get big super fast.”

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Health Care Becomes Entrepreneurial (Finally)

Harvard Business Review

Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. Top-tier thinkers from data science, business, finance, and the digital world are coming together to find new solutions. Entrepreneurship Health Innovation' billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012.

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What the CVS-Aetna Deal Means for the Delivery of U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

New, nontraditional entrants are bringing fresh alternatives to the bureaucratic and autocratic management systems of traditional hospitals. To lower the cost of premiums, Aetna and CVS, UnitedHealth and Optum, and undoubtedly others are creating a marriage of the financing and delivery of care.

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Startup Accelerators Have Become More Popular in Emerging Markets — and They’re Working

Harvard Business Review

It’s not all about venture funding. 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets. See More Videos > See More Videos > Accelerators should take the time to understand and align with these entrepreneurs’ needs and recognize that not all startups require venture capital funding right away.

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The Disruption of Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze." Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation.