Opinion

April 13, 2021

Sorry, not everything is a venture builder

If companies aren't clear on what a venture builder is and what makes it different from other models, the project will fail.


Alberto Onetti

4 min read

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Venture builders are a super-hot topic in the open innovation arena. In the past few months more companies have announced that they have created a venture builder (Iberdrola and Telefonica Wayra, just to name a few of the most recent ones); and many others are about to launch (we see RFPs coming), or internally about to assess the option through benchmarking analysis.

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