Research Insights on European Corporate Entrepreneurship Approaches

My partners in the Corship project from Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, AVL List Gmbh and the European Startup Network just published their latest report on Corporate Entrepreneurship Approaches in Europe based on expert interviews and literature review. Get the full report here.

Some interesting key findings I would like to share:

• Corporate-Startup collaboration in Europe is considered an important way to innovate.
• There are various goals for collaboration: For corporates, this embraces corporate image building to talent acquisition, and from renewing corporate culture to taking advantage of the newest technologies when entering new markets. Startups engage becaucse of access to resources to new market opportunities to gaining credibility.
• Collaboration partners should have a clear understanding of the common goal.
• Practices varies: from internal hackathons to sourcing startups to actual business relationships 
• There are four types of collaboration depending on the focus (internal, external) and whether the goals for the collaboration are open or predetermined

Enjoy reading the full report with all details and get in touch, if you have questions or you want to give your feedback. There are more insights and also tools in the pipeline. I will keep you updated.