Conference: Global 1000 meet fortune/global 1000 companies seeking ventures.

G1000峰会：全球千家公司寻求风险投资

Global 100 - Logo (San Mateo Sep 17-18, 2013)

The “GLOBAL 1000 Meet | Partner | Deal :: Startups Conference + Showcase" is an important transaction-based conference for Fortune/Global 1000 companies (G1000), universities, angel investors, VCs, accelerators, incubators, state startup investment programs, and SBIR programs, who want to do deals with with the Fortune/Global 1000 companies.

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Skoltech | Coller Institute of Venture applauds its mission

斯科尔科沃科技研究所| 科勒风险投资研究所赞其使命



Skoltech - Innovation - Research

The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech will educate global leaders in innovation, advance scientific knowledge, and foster new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.

You can read more about its objectives and plans for establishing a university for the 21st century.

The master class in private equity

私募股权投资硕士课程

Professor Eli Talmor | Chair Coller Institute

The Coller Institute of Private Equity at London Business School teaches this 3-day master class bi annually and the next one will take place in London on 30th October 2013.

Run by Professor Eli Talmor, the course boasts an impressive array of case studies and simulations augmented with practitioner reality and experience. The Class has established a strong alumni and has its own linkedin page which you can join to keep up with peer, past and future classmates.

For more details and see here. Read also Ann Iveson's blog on the master class "An Investment or an Expense?"

HK government supports a venture programme via startmeupHK

香港政府通过StartmeupHK支持风险投资项目

Hong Kong Venture programme gains government support

InvestHK is aiming to support the growth of high impact ventures on a global scale, by facilitating their access to financial, intellectual and social capital. It also seeks to propel the development of Hong Kong as an entrepreneurship and innovation hub, contributing to the development of a more prosperous economy and society.

See all the information in StartmeupHK site.

How start up funding works

新兴企业投资运作方式

Infographic: How funding works

This is a great visual interpretation of how the pie is divided at each key round. How realistic is this and what to watch out for would be good to know too.

University spin-outs need good technology, but they also need good business sense

大学产业需良好科技，但更需灵敏商业嗅觉

Source:Science/Business Network

This is an interesting article published July 2013 emanating from a Science/Business Network Roundtable.

What works - early nurture , immersion with other entrepreneurs, finding customers, finding funding and why it's not the same everywhere?

How can public policy play a role in increasing the number of successful spin-outs?

A research paper written by students on the performance of spin outs from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology highlighted in the article, was runner up in the Coller Prize awarded at Coller Institute of Private Equity in 2008.

Video: Entrepreneurial states, risk-free venture capitalists – and other chimeras

新书：《创业家之国》


Source: The Entrepreneurial State

Read the ICAEW blog on a new book Mariana Mazzucatto’s new book The Entrepreneurial State -

Minister of Finance establishes a venture capital expert panel to grow Canada’s venture capital industry

财政部长为促加拿大风险投资业增长设立风险投资专家小组

The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, Canada.

This announcement follows on from  Prime Minister Stephen Harper's statement in January of the Venture Capital Action Plan: a comprehensive strategy for deploying $400 million to help increase private sector investments to create jobs and economic growth.

Publication for corporate venture and university led venture activities

着眼企业风险投资刊物，大学领跑风险投资行为


Source: Global Corporate Venturing

Keep up to date with activity in Corporate Venture sphere with this publication or if your focus is more on technology and venture arising from universities then this is a  good news source.

Source: Global University Venturing

UK Government establishes a prize to answer the hardest question - but what is it?

英政府为解难题设立奖金-- 题目是什么？

UK Prize for science

Prime Minister David Cameron has announced the intention to establish a prize along the lines of the longitudinal prize of the 1700s. to answer the most pressing question in science.

However if you thought that the British award prizes once every 300 years then you would be wrong. They have a Centre for Challenge Prizes housed within NESTA.

British angel investment summit 2013

2013年英国天使投资峰会

Source: UKBAA

Wednesday 3rd July 2013 was the date of the second British Angel investor summit gathering in London. The day opened with a welcome address from the Chairman of the UK Business Angels Association UKBAA, Sir Nigel Rudd and was followed by many interest speakers and panels looking at the impact Angel Investment has made to venture.

The UKBAA is in its second year as a trade association and the day heard from many perspectives including those linked with political  policy, investors, entrepreneurs and intermediaries as well as colleagues from other countries, who offered a contrast to the UK position.

Deloitte hosted the event and presented their findings "Taking the pulse of the angel market".