Corporate Venture Capital in the Twenty-First Century: An Integral Part of Firms' Innovation Toolkit

The Oxford Handbook of Venture Capital

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Dushnitsky, Gary ^a,b,c  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate venture capital; CVC programs; Entrepreneurial ventures; Minority equity investments; Parent corporations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923478651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391596.013.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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