External corporate venture capital investment: Towards a framework for capturing and measuring strategic value

PICMET: Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1831-1842

  Napp, Johann Jakob ^a   Minshall, Tim ^a   Probert, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE VENTURE CAPITAL; CORPORATE VENTURING; EQUITY INVESTMENT; GENERAL TRENDS; MULTIPLE-CASE STUDY; START-UPS; STRATEGIC VALUES; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT;

INNOVATION; INVESTMENTS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TECHNOLOGY;

RESEARCH;

EID: 70450200112     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PICMET.2009.5261953     Document Type: Conference Paper

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