The Horizons Tracker
JUNE 29, 2020
It looks at everything from the legal infrastructure, the ease of creating a business, the quality of academia and availability of finance. “Corporate venturing is becoming a dominant trend among companies. European countries traditionally dominate, due in large part to the excellence of their academic research.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2018
Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
Two in particular are corporate venture funds, which invest in start-ups outside companies'' walls, and internal idea contests. Corporate R&D too often focuses on refining technologies that are already in use. But cutting back on research funding doesn''t work either. Finance Innovation' Ready to Innovate?
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
Two in particular are corporate venture funds, which invest in start-ups outside companies’ walls, and internal idea contests. Corporate R&D too often focuses on refining technologies that are already in use. But cutting back on research funding doesn’t work either. You can see why: For decades in the U.S.,
Harvard Business Review
MAY 26, 2014
But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. Top-tier thinkers from data science, business, finance, and the digital world are coming together to find new solutions. Consumer technology offers direct access to patients.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 7, 2017
Over the years, there have been numerous efforts, ranging from the Bayh-Dole Act , of 1980, to numerous initiatives to revamp technology transfer offices within government agencies, but nothing really seemed able to speed new discoveries out of the labs and into the marketplace. This, of course, was not an entirely new idea.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 5, 2017
Think about it: If our military can create a highly complex surgical theater anywhere in the world within hours, it’s not a stretch to think the knowledge and technology exists to take care of elderly, sick people in their own homes. This is evidenced by the number of venture funding deals , which grew some 200% between 2010 and 2014.
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