Sentence examples for external ventures from inspiring English sources

Some technology companies, particularly in the software sector, have sought market-ready products or businesses without the help of intermediaries for example, by creating captive marketplaces or offering in-house incubation services for external ventures.

Between 2007 and 2010, BIUFF received external ventures, but this was the subject of criticism from the internal community, due to the lack of physical space.

As measures to cultivate the spirit and entrepreneurial culture in universities, the traditional technology transfer offices (TTO) have incentivised academia to take an interest in using the results of its R&D for marketing and external ventures (Rogers et al. 1999; Siegel et al. 2001).

The company will also step up its focus on new business activities that generate sales from Kodak's research labs and external venture capital investments.

Specifically, our study shows that shared entrepreneurial passion and shared strategic vision are required to get to superior team performance as rated by the external venture capital investors.

He wonders if the external route is the best strategy for getting the right product to market on time or if Cisco should build its own external venture, or perhaps even acquire another firm outright.

Sometimes, of course, a company's own resources and processes can become liabilities rather than capabilities, particularly when it faces new markets or disruptive technologies.1 An external venture may offer the investing company an opportunity to build new and different capabilities ones that could threaten the viability of current corporate capabilities.

We've never raised any external venture capital.

Saint-Gobain created in 2007 the NOVA External Venture programme to develop strategic partnerships with innovative SMEs in the fields of energy, services for the construction industry and cleantech.

He says it's been "balanced by a larger influx of external venture dollars coming into the L.A. market," including not only from the Bay Area but increasingly from China.

He hasn't disclosed external venture funding, but you could assume there's probably some significant round given that they've been working secretly on the product for about a year.