The Corporate Startup Stars Awards (CSS) are going global. The international advisory firm Mind the Bridge announced today a partnership with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) to scale… read more →
What’s the elephant in the CVC room? The (missing) relationship between portfolio companies and the corporate business units. I had the opportunity to sit down with Michiel Van Haersma Buma,… read more →
Beyond focusing on finding startups from outside, Enagás (the main natural gas transport company in Spain) decided to stimulate startups from inside. It is what are called spin-off companies,… read more →
Corporate Startup Stars Awards 2019 For the fourth year running, startups across Europe have nominated the most active corporates in terms of open innovation as part of the Corporate Startup… read more →
The Spanish scaleup ecosystem in 2018 still ranks 5th in Europe in terms of the number of scaleups (317 in total), and 6th in the capital raised ($4B in total).… read more →
The dragon has awakened undoubtedly becoming an innovation powerhouse China is definitely “the Super” Scaler Ecosystem according to the new SEP Tech Scaleup China Report 2019, presented today at the… read more →
The open innovation platform Startup Europe Partnership, led by Mind the Bridge and launched at World Economic Forum in Davos in 2014, is getting bigger and bigger. At last SEP… read more →
Though the Spanish scaleup ecosystem is showing a growing pattern, it is also growing slower than the most immediate comparables, preliminary numbers of 2018 suggest. This is what emerged from… read more →
DOWNLOAD THE OPEN INNOVATION OUTLOOK The current economic climate and political uncertainty are not going to impact the growth of open innovation, say the innovation leaders. Which are the Macro-Trends… read more →
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applied since May 2018, was a policy response to widely felt skepticism and fears in the European population around privacy protection in… read more →