News | Corporate venturing | 27 Jan Microsoft’s M12 is on the hunt again for European startups Two investments in two weeks — into SuperAwesome and Comtravo — signal that Microsoft's venture capital arm is back in the game in Europe.
News | Corporate Innovation | 21 Jan Corporate innovation weekly: Slingshots to space, fingerprinting objects and how to ask better questions This is what Europe's biggest corporations got up to this week in innovation.
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 21 Jan Forget thinking “outside the box”. This is why the box is useful Todd Rovak, chief executive of Fahrenheit 212 (part of Capgemini Invent) tells it straight: most corporate innovation labs are failing and pretending there are "no bad ideas" is naive.
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 21 Jan Selling to businesses is hard, selling to the military is harder 1,200 startups come to defense giant Thales each year to tap otherwise inaccessible army contracts. In turn, their technology means faster, cheaper military innovation.
News | Corporate Innovation | 14 Jan Corporate innovation weekly: CES, AI drug discovery and customised creams This is what Europe's biggest corporations got up to this week in innovation.
Interview | Corporate accelerators | 14 Jan New head of Airbus BizLab: “We need to take better bets” Christian Lindener wants to spend a third of the budget on moonshots
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 14 Jan Half of all corporate innovation providers will fail in five years Philippe De Ridder, founder of Board of Innovation, says companies are still indulging in too much innovation theatre. A big cull is coming.
News | Corporate Innovation | 7 Jan Corporate innovation weekly: toilet robots, deepfakes and the next frontier for AI This is what Europe's biggest corporations got up to in terms of innovation and working with startups
Analysis | Corporate accelerators | 7 Jan End of the corporate pitch day The Nordics’ Combient Foundry isn’t looking to invest in startups; this group of corporates wants to give them business instead
Opinion | Investment | 30 Dec The three things that changed the face of European tech The beginning of a new decade is a good time to reflect. And it’s clear that European tech is entering the 2020s in much better shape than it had started the 2010s.
Analysis | Mobility | 30 Dec The best of Sifted: Mobility and travel We'll still be talking about electric scooters, driverless vehicles and flying cars in 2020. So you'd better catch up on Sifted's mobility and travel must-reads.
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 24 Dec “There is one thing we need more of in corporate innovation: diversity” Diana Biggs took on the role of global head of innovation at HSBC's private banking division in June, with a mandate to change corporate culture.
Analysis | Corporate Innovation | 24 Dec The Sifted guide to innovation consultancies Consultancies that can advise business in how to think outside the box are all the rage. But who are these companies and what do they offer?
News | Corporate Innovation | 17 Dec Corporate innovation weekly: Pocket rockets to Dr T-shirt This is what Europe's largest corporations have been doing with new technology and startups this week, from Airbus to Iceland.
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 17 Dec “Start with the why, and break out of the company mould “ Claire Calmejane, chief innovation officer at Societe Generale, on how she is teaching the 150-year-old French bank to move faster.
Analysis | Intrapreneurship | 17 Dec “More like an assault course than a marathon” — how to spin out from a big corporation Tankey, the fuel loyalty points startup, was the first corporate spin-out for the Dutch utility, testing its willingness to support intrapreneurs.
