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 →
Today’s episode will be with Jason Victor, event coordinator at a great Finnish midsize companies Glaston. We came across Jason and Glaston through our Open Innovation for Midsize companies program… 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 →
Imagine a beehive whereby bees communicate on multiple levels, interconnectivity is key and resources are managed efficiently. Similarly, the main manufacturing and digital components of Industry 4.0 perform individual tasks… read more →
Samsung Electronics, KPN and Sodexo named as the corporates working most collaboratively with startups across Europe For the third year running, European startups have been asked through a public call… read more →
By Alberto Onetti On the occasion of the 2017 Award Ceremony of SEP Europe’s Corporate Startup Stars we published a research snapshot with insights into the open innovation activities of leading European firms. Based… read more →
Startup Europe Partnership’s CORPORATE STARTUP STARS 2017 SAP, Telefonica and Virgin have today been selected as Europe’s top three “startup-friendly” corporates in SEP Europe’s Corporate Startup Stars ranking, announced at an… read more →
Quite interesting opportunity if you are a fintech startup or an company with innovative ideas that might contribute to the banking industry’s evolution and transformation (such as big data, security,… read more →