IP Ventures Microsoft program that allows Microsoft highlighted promising but unused technology in the new company, a new approach to the corporate venture capital. The program provides "IP for justice" and has been very successful in achieving its main objectives, improve morale among researchers who wanted to know that their technology is used to improve relations with the venture capital community, particularly in the Silicon Valley, and good PR. Many eight companies started still feel good. But how can the program be expanded beyond its current size, and how it can structure their investments to reduce the dilution that Microsoft invariably faced with the fact that it does not invest beyond technology that the seed company originally? "Hide
by Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon Source: Harvard Business School 24 pages. Publication Date: March 29, 2010. Prod. #: 810096-PDF-ENG
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