Rethinking the Mission of Corporate Venture Capital

Abstract

Researchers have long studied the types of mission of corporate venture capital. In practice, however, some issues have recently been identified in those studied types of mission. Also, practitioners have started to set another type of mission for their corporate venture capital. In this article, I discuss those issues of the previously studied types of missions identified in practice, and new moves by corporate venture capital to solve them. I then discuss some research questions that recent practices raise.