Corporate Venturing and Innovation Course

Corporate Venturing and Innovation Course on 3rd to 7th October 2022

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Introduction

Companies today are operating in an increasingly complex world. Rapid technological changes, digital disruption, and unforeseen shocks are making the business environment more unpredictable, dynamic and interconnected. How can companies ensure success and continued growth in these times of great change?

To accelerate innovation and leverage growth opportunities, forward-thinking firms are increasingly turning to corporate venturing: finding, funding, and then nurturing and ultimately monetizing new businesses through exit or integration into the parent company’s core business processes. Put simply, corporate venturing is providing companies a new and more robust mechanism to stay ahead of the curve.

Corporate Venturing and Innovation is a new programme for senior leaders and decision-makers who are looking for break-through ideas to build a game-changing portfolio of new businesses.

You gain clear insights into the dynamics of corporate venturing. From finding, evaluating and nurturing new ideas to building the right processes, structures and innovation ecosystems to establish relationships with the wider start-up and investment community. You emerge from the programme with a comprehensive understanding of what is at stake, and a customized action plan to build new businesses. 

Duration

5 Days

Who should attend?

This programme is especially relevant to those senior executives involved in expanding or rethinking the innovation strategy inside their organization including:

• Board members and C-suite executives 
• Corporate business development professionals 
• Chief Technology and Innovation Officers
• R&D professionals 
• Business unit executives  
• Next-generation family business owners 

Learning outcomes

• Decide on the best structure/ processes/ alternatives for your own corporate venturing efforts
• Align expectations across the parent company, business units, and the portfolio of ventures
• Determine clear strategic and financial return targets
• Discover how to structure the relationship between the parent company and your ventures
• Build the mechanisms to fund and support new businesses as they test and validate ideas
• Develop and deploy a highly skilled business-building team
• Decide on the best mix of venture-building tools for your corporate environment

Corporate Venturing and Innovation equips you with the understanding, frameworks, models and tools to leverage the power of innovation, build alliances and accelerate the development of new businesses. The programme integrates real-life case studies that bring new concepts and learning to life.

1. Models for tapping into internal and external innovations to build new businesses
2. Building new businesses by exploiting ideas internally
3. Building new businesses by partnering with venture capitalists and start-ups
4. Building innovation ecosystems
5. Overcoming the organizational challenge to building and scaling new businesses