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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Corporate venture capital"”.
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Corporate venture capital
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1997.
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Corporate Venture Capital Investment Decisions
… The analysis helps us better understand corporate entrepreneurial investment decisions and has business policy implications.
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Identifying successful corporate venture capital investments
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1991.
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Latent system dynamics within corporate venture capital firms
… their current market position. By deploying corporate venture capital, many firms have leveraged the nimble, resourceful, and efficient nature of start-ups to inject compelling innovations into their core business lines. However, this arrangement must be constructed and cultivated carefully …
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Comparative Analysis of Japanese and Western Corporate Venture Capital
Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) is one of methods to facilitate open innovation for companies, and the companies have invested in startups by CVC for a long time in the world. In Japan, more and more large companies have established their CVC, and they have invested in the startups in the last five …
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Strategic Shareholders and IPO Disclosure: Evidence from Corporate Venture Capital
This paper exploits the recent rise in corporate venture capitalists (CVC) to examine the effect of shareholders’ strategic incentives on firms’ IPO disclosure. CVCs’ investments are often driven by both financial and strategic incentives. I argue that, due to their strategic incentives, CVCs may …
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Capturing and measuring the strategic value in corporate venture capital
Corporations are increasingly utilizing corporate venture capital (CVC) as a significant component of their external innovation strategy. Over the past several years, these CVCs have grown to contribute a large percentage of all startup funding in the US. The growing role of CVCs in the innovation …
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Architecting a Corporate Venture Capital Firm for a Commodity Enterprise
… well equipped to manage a changing ecosystem. Corporate Venture Capital has been a form of open innovation leveraged by enterprises since the early 1950s. These Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) firms can be architected to deliver strategic value, financial value, or a combination of both …
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THE INFLUENCE OF CORPORATE VENTURE CAPITAL ON INNOVATION: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA
This dissertation explores the influence of corporate venture capital (CVC) on the innovation of startups. Applying the ordinary least squares (OLS) regression and propensity score matching approach to the CVC investment data on China’s listed companies, we document that the CVC investment can …
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Corporate Venture Capital: How established firms use external resources to create new competencies
… are increasingly referring to investments in corporate venture capital (CVC) as means to create new competencies and foster the search for competitive advantage through the use of external resources. CVC is generally defined as the practice by non-financial firms of placing equity investments …
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Internal Contingencies To The Value Of Firms’ External Relationships: Evidence From Corporate Venture Capital
… startups and established firms that arise from corporate venture capital investments. In chapter 2, I highlight an important tension for startups in these relationships - on the one hand, they provide valuable downstream expertise to help startups adapt their technologies to product …
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Growth Investment Matrix: A Framework Linking Corporate Venture Capital Investment with Business Growth Strategy
This thesis explores the role of corporate venture capital (CVC) investment in business growth strategy. It is particularly concerned with identifying the CVC investment options for business development and growth. Business growth strategy involves choices of products (and services) or markets for …
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Corporate venture capital : transforming CVC into an effective corporate strategic tool for seeking innovation and growth in the 21st Century
… seeking innovation and growth have launched Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) arms with varied success. This thesis focuses on the CVC - the challenges it faces, and the opportunities it brings to the sponsoring organization. I contend that, despite a highly cyclical and mediocre performance …
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The impact of strategic investment on success of capital-intensive ventures
… pharmaceuticals, and semiconductors, have used corporate venture capital as a lever to access and screen technological advances, and to drive innovation outside the traditional firm boundaries. Recent years have witnessed emergence of a new wave of corporate venture capital funds that …
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A study of corporate entrepreneurship in the semiconductor industry
The number of semiconductor companies receiving venture funding has been decreasing through-out the last decade. The economics of manufacturing semiconductors do not offer an attractive risk-reward profile to the traditional VC model of investing. Moreover, fewer significant positive funding …
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Corporate accelerators : a study on prevalence, sponsorship, and strategy
In recent years, corporate accelerators have emerged as a new method to foster collaboration between startups and established companies. This thesis presents, to my knowledge, the first comprehensive database of corporate accelerator programs across the globe. On the basis of this resource, I …
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Integrated method to create optimal dynamic strategic plans for corporate technology start-ups
… assess investments, toward an approach that incorporates uncertainty in the beginning phases of planning instead of first choosing a plan and then considering the effect of risk. By proactively identifying critical uncertainties and "purchasing" flexibility to handle them, management can …
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Try Before You Buy: Measuring Innovation Synergy Using Textual Analysis
… adopting a “two-step merger” strategy by making corporate venture capital (CVC) investments in private firms prior to engaging in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). This dissertation investigates the strategic role of CVC using a three-stage framework and applies advanced textual analyses to examine …
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Try Before You Buy: Measuring Innovation Synergy Using Textual Analysis
… adopting a “two-step merger” strategy by making corporate venture capital (CVC) investments in private firms prior to engaging in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). This dissertation investigates the strategic role of CVC using a three-stage framework and applies advanced textual analyses to examine …
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Acquisition of medical device start-ups
… the medical device space, it has been noted that Venture Capital firms (VC's) use high risk capital to invest in early stage companies, and look for "exits" through either an Initial Public Offering (IPO) or through the sale of the start-up to an established firm. Corporations are also involved in …
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