Corporates from a wide array of industries increasingly engage in partnerships with external start-ups to drive innovation and growth. As a joint initiative between the Chair for Entrepreneurship (ITEM) and the Center for Financial Services Innovation (FSI-HSG), the Corporate Venturing Lab aims to generate evidence-based insights and effectively facilitate knowledge transfer in the field of corporate venturing.
The Corporate Venturing Lab connects the academic world with the practitioner world. We deal with questions that tackle the entire value chain of corporate venturing, both from the perspective of corporates and high-growth start-ups. Exemplary topics include:
The recently published Corporate Venturing Handbook serves as a practitioner navigator that provides ready-to-use tools and materials. It covers a wide range of topics and best practice case examples.
Ademi, P., Schade, P., & Schuhmacher, M. C. (2025). Situated Attention and Strategic Leadership Interfaces: The Role of CEO Humility and Digital Transformation Urgency for Corporate Venture Capital Investments. Journal of Management Studies (forthcoming). https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13275
Hess, M., Reuther, J., Grichnik, D., & Wincent, J. (2025). Corporate Venture Capital and Strategic Search: Performance Spillovers in Parent Companies from Sticking to the Core Business. Journal of Business Research (forthcoming). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115628
Ademi, P., Schuhmacher, M. C., & Zacharakis, A. L. (2023). Evaluating Affordance-Based Opportunities: A Conjoint Experiment of Corporate Venture Capital Managers’ Decision-Making. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 47(6), 2293-2322. https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587221134788.
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