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How Corporates Can Best Engage With Startups

The Horizons Tracker

Research from INSEAD suggests that the most common way of currently working with a startup is via a corporate venture fund. Not only do sponsors often regard the incubator as proof of their innovation prowess, but startups often regard acceptance into the incubator as job done. Successful partnerships.

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

Harvard Business Review

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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Refugees Need Jobs. Entrepreneurship Can Help.

Harvard Business Review

All too often, entrepreneurship is equated with technology startups. Europe, on the other hand, led by Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, spends a higher proportion of its international development funds supporting entrepreneurial and pro-business projects in developing countries. But it is much more than that.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

In Paris, an endeavor to reclaim the word “entrepreneur,” has seen the city open its doors to attract foreign talent with a recently launched tech visa aimed at encouraging foreigners to incubate startups on the city’s eastern edge. Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75

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