The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 2, 2021

These co-investment funds can test the market validity of discoveries, with companies working alongside scientists to do so. The existing European financial SME instruments for scientific startups needs to be adapted and work more effectively with corporate venture funds so that small experiments in selected regions are supported.

Venture Funding 127

Venture Funding Short-term Long-term Innovation 127

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

For decades, we have heard that emerging markets are poised for huge growth that will yield even greater prosperity. Much like their famed Silicon Valley counterparts, emerging market accelerators aim to boost startups’ potential for raising growth capital.

Marketing 8

Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Much of this activity is driven by a handful of highly active funds at firms like Intel, Google, and Qualcomm. But the number of corporate venture funds doing deals each quarter has increased about 50% since 2012. Corporations that jump into VC at the peak of the market end up overpaying. This isn’t surprising.

Venture Funding 10

Venture Funding Company Maturity Follow-up 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

If you remove the barriers, then you don''t need to incentivize entrepreneurs to commit their natural act. Piecemeal policies, like angel tax credits, loan guarantees, reduced payroll taxes, direct investments, government venture funds, etc., Stay off of ventures'' balance sheets — and get onto their income statements.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

While India is the fastest growing major economy in the world today, some foreign companies are still struggling to enter the market there. To enter the Indian market with more profitability, multinational companies would benefit by creative use of the country’s supply chain and the explosive growth of its online channel.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Marketing Contract Manufacturing Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. If its product development pro­cess places too much emphasis on removing risk from new launches, few new-to-the-world products will make it to market.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this creates concentration risks, which are typically avoided by venture funds, they are precisely what disease foundations should be doing and where the new generation of philanthropists can make an enormous difference by taking on one particular type of cancer.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Venture Funding Finance Development 8