Many corporates and CVCs work with startups through pilots, investments, accelerators and strategic partnerships, but the way these collaborations are organized — and the outcomes they generate — can vary significantly.
This roundtable will bring together corporate and CVC practitioners for an open discussion on what actually makes startup collaboration work inside large organizations.
Ignite will open the session by sharing a few insights from our ten years of practical experience, together with findings from ongoing research on how startup-corporate collaborations develop, succeed and sometimes stall.
From there, the focus will be on the participants: comparing experiences, discussing common challenges and sharing what has worked in practice when building stronger ways of working with startups.
We will also briefly introduce an emerging capability framework being developed by Ignite and a team of researchers, as one perspective for structuring the discussion.
Participants will have the opportunity to:
This roundtable is designed for corporate and CVC practitioners with hands-on experience of working with startups. The session will be held in a closed-door, informal setting with limited capacity to allow for an open and practical discussion.
Hosted by Ignite Nordic as part of the Spain Sweden Open Innovation Program
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Please note that our matchmaking meetings are carefully curated based on a potential business opportunity. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that there will be any matches for your startup or how many meetings each startup will get.
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