As more and more corporations recognize the strategic relevance and value of innovation, the scope of publications surrounding corporate venturing continues to grow to serve this readership. We have included an annotated bibliography in The Venture Imperative of some of our favorite sources, which we urge you to consult. We sample some of those books and articles here, and add more recent publications for your information.

Articles

Books

Seeding Future Innovation, by Tim Rohner and Heidi Mason
Optimize: August 1, 2002
http://optimizemag.com/issue/010/roi.htm

Making Sense of Corporate Venture Capital, by Henry W. Chesbrough
Harvard Business Review: March 2002
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/products/hbr/mar02/R0203G.html

The Way Ahead-A Survey of the Near Future, by Peter Drucker
The Economist: November 3, 2001 (Subscription required)
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=S%26%2BXH%29QA3%22%0A

Charts and Figures on Corporate Venture Investing in 2000
http://www.e-unlimited.com/corporatesummit/keyfacts.htm

Damage Control for Corporate VCs, by Dirk Spiers
Business 2.0: November 15, 2001
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,35534,FF.html

The Four Horsemen of the New Economy, by Joseph Bartlett
Fast Company: November 2000
http://www.fastcompany.com/build/build_feature/bart_4horses.html

Spin-offs and ventures are still strategically vital, by Katharine Campbell
Financial Times: March 18, 2002
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020318008408&query
=%22corporate+venturing%22

Corporations As VCs, by Eric Nee
Fortune: January 21, 2000
http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=37919

Downes, Larry
The Strategy Machine: Reinventing Your Business Every Day. New York: Harperbusiness, June 2002.

McKenna Regis
Total Access: Giving Customers What They Want in an Anytime, Anywhere World. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002.

Sutton, Robert I.
Weird Ideas That Work: 11 -Practices for Promoting, Managing and Sustaining Innovation. New York: Free Press, 2002.

Laurie, Donald L.
Venture Catalyst : The Five Strategies for Explosive Corporate Growth. Boston: Perseus Books, 2001.

Sawhney, Mohan
The Seven Steps to Nirvana: Strategic Insights into eBusiness Transformation. New York, McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, 2001.

Wiersema, Fred
The New Market Leaders: Who's Winning and How in the Battle for Customers. The Free Press, 2001.

Zook, Chris and James Allen
Profit from the Core: Growth Strategy in an Era of Turbulence. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001.

Komisar, Randy
The Monk and the Riddle. The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000.

McGrath, Rita Gunther and Ian C. MacMillan
The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Strategies for Continuously Creating Opporutnity in an Age of Uncertainty. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000.

Gompers, Paul and Josh Lerner
The Venture Capital Cycle. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.

Moore, Geoffrey and Regis McKenna
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High Tech Products to Mainstream Customers. New York: Harperbusiness, 1999.

Pinchot, Gifford and Ron Pellman
Intrapreneuring in Action: A Handbook for Business Innovation. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999.

Downes, Larry and Chunka Mui
Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998.

Christensen, Clayton M.
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.

Block, Zenas and Ian C. MacMillan
Corporate Venturing: Creating New Businesses Within the Firm. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995.

Drucker, Peter
Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practices and Principles. New York: Harper Business, 1993.

Bell, Gordon and John McNamara
High Tech Ventures. New Jersey: Addison Wesley, 1991.