Private equity company casts a long shadow over the corporate enterprises, in part because they compete for the same entrepreneurial talent. Corporate venturing can improve its performance by emulating certain practices of private venture capital, but it will never achieve structures that private venture capital may create. Instead, the principles of corporate enterprises should cover potential structural advantages of corporate venture capital and use these benefits. These potential benefits include: an indefinite time horizon, the opportunity to make very large amounts of capital, the ability to coordinate synergies with non-traded assets of the corporation, and the ability to keep a large group, and organizational learning with experience failed venture. New Group companies Lucent, takes a lot of useful practice private venture capital, but retains some of the potential benefits of structural deepening within the firm. "Hide
by Henry W. Chesbrough Source: California Management Review 20 pages. Publication Date: April 1, 2000. Prod. #: CMR171-PDF-ENG