Corporate Venture Capital as a Strategy for External Innovation: An Exploratory Empirical Study

By Holger Ernst, Peter Witt, German Brachtendorf. 2005

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Open innovation and new issues in R&D organization and personnel management (2012, background): “An increased involvement in other companies through minority holdings or corporate venture capital investments (Dushnitsky and Lenox 2005 ; Ernst, Witt and Brachtendorf 2005 ).”
Open innovation in SMEs : trends, motives and management challenges (2009, background): “corporate venture capital investments (Chesbrough, 2002; Dushnitsky and Lenox, 2005a; Ernst et al., 2005 ).”
In search of complementary assets: The determinants of alliance formation of high-tech start-ups (2006, background): “ilarly, Ernst et al. (2005) document that CVC is used by large German firms for technology window purposes; in fact, it allows parent com-”
Financing technology-based small firms in Europe: what do we know? (2012, background): “…venture capital offers strategic resources, such as technological synergies and brand image, whereas independent venture capital adds value by helping raise additional finance, recruiting key employees and professionalizing the company (Dushnitsky 2006, Ernst et al. 2005, Maula et al. 2005).”