Corporate Venturing and Entrepreneurship Community (CVEC) brings together an international audience of corporate venturing professionals, researchers and entrepreneurs. We exchange the latest insights on corporate venturing, collaborative innovation and entrepreneurship and discovers together new concepts and ways of working.
The fast-changing business environment and the rapid increase of startup companies all contribute to continuous change in the competitive landscape. Nevertheless, the creation of new business in the context of established organisations is not easy and creates tension and therefore can represent a significant challenge for companies.
For whom?
The target audience for this summit are corporate innovation and venturing professionals and people involved in creating new business within their company as well as academics, conducting research on corporate venturing and entrepreneurship. For practitioners, the added value is to be inspired by good practices from peers and the latest academic insights. For academics, this conference is particularly interesting as it will help them to increase their awareness of contemporary issues in corporate venturing practice, thereby increasing the impact of their work.
Activities
Our main activities are events and research projects. Our main event is the annual Corporate Venturing & Entrepreneurship summit, bringing together together the latest academic insights in corporate venturing & entrepreneurship as well as best practices and lessons learned from leading European companies. It is a unique opportunity to network with corporate venturing professionals, researchers and VC’s. Our Research focuses on the major challenging corporate venturing is facing, e.g. the impact of COVID-19 on collaborative innovation and corporate venturing
Connect
academia & corporate practitioners
Exchange
experiences from different perspectives
Discover
new concepts & ways of working
Who are we?
The Corporate Venturing & Entrepreneurship Community is organized by the Corporate Venturing Network, Tilburg University and Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM).
Corporate Venturing Network
Corina Kuiper
Managing Director Corporate Venturing Network Author book 'Corporate Venturing'