Healthcare and medtech research and development were once exclusively the preserve of big pharma and other large healthcare firms. The cost of developing and launching viable technology solutions and healthcare innovations was so high that startups...
The financial crisis of 2007 chipped away at the trust that many people used to have in traditional providers of financial services. This loss of faith, combined with the new technologies and an influx of money into fintech startups, has led to the...
Silicon Valley. New York. Boston. Startups in these locales always claim the largest share of venture capital funds because of their proximity to the biggest and best-funded VC firms. Competition for deals is fierce, making it expensive to fish...
The e-commerce sector has seen unprecedented growth, but here's what may be a surprising figure: Americans still do over 90 percent of their shopping in physical stores. With this in mind, some of the top e-commerce companies, like Amazon and Warby...
The global bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) recent purchased Mexican online payments startup Openpay as part of what it calls a strategy "to accelerate transformation by growing its portfolio of digital businesses." Earlier in 2016, the...
“In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish," says Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chair of the World Economic Forum.
In other words, corporations aren't competing with each...
Automation and mechanization is nothing new — it has been happening in factories since the Industrial Revolution, albeit slowly. But now emerging robotic technologies and the surge in Internet shopping are propelling a growing mechanization in the...
Over the last few years, the corporate venture model has shifted away from internal R&D towards an open innovation model in which companies partner with entrepreneurs to create new products or services.
If it's done smartly, the partnership between...
What exactly does it take for a startup/corporate partnership to be successful? In our recent blog series, Dating Advice for Startups and Corporates, RocketSpace's SVP and GM of Corporate Innovation Services Michele McConomy explains a four-step...
One of the biggest roadblocks that corporate innovators face when they're looking to set up a partnership with a startup is resistance from management, which, by design, is set to protect the status quo. Their resistance is not unreasonable —...