PRINT THIS PAGE Corporate venture capital and the exercise of the options to acquire27/11/2001. Source: Helsinki University, London Business School. Markku Maula and Gordon Murray 
 Large-technology based corporations have become increasingly active in corporate venture capital (CVC) in order to gain strategic insights into the development of new technologies, markets and business models. Markku Maula of Helsinki University and Dr Gordon Murray of London Business School analyse over 200 CVCs.
If access to new technologies and intellectual property are the main objectives for companies becoming involved in corporate venturing, you would expect them to acquire investee companies. However, as this study shows, less than six per cent of investee companies are bought by their corporate venturing investor.
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