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Russia's long-term strategy is to try to gain control of Ukraine's pipelines by transferring them to a joint venture, as it has done in Belarus, thus enabling it to control both supply and distribution of gas to Ukraine.
With their traditional fishing grounds unable to deliver a decent living, they risk their lives to venture farther and farther from shore.
The venture capital firm that underwrote Google and Amazon, among other archetypal entrepreneurial successes, directed more than $100 million into new alternative energy companies in 2006 alone.
The technology-transfer requirement should help foreign companies secure better deals with Chinese firms, which will include the technology’s value in their overall appraisal of a foreign investor’s contribution to a joint venture.
Meanwhile, Novartis is piloting a “social venture” business model to give poor people in remote villages access to vital medicines that are packaged in small, affordable doses.
Or it could be a service to an organization’s members or to a venture capitalist’s portfolio companies.
Financial markets in the advanced economies provide risk capital through different sets of arrangements – venture funds, public trading of shares, private equity, etc.
Imagine that a government established a number of professionally managed public venture funds, which would take equity stakes in a large cross-section of new technologies, raising the necessary funds by issuing bonds in financial markets.
Designing the right institutions for public venture capital can be difficult.
The public venture funds’ share of profits from the commercialization of new technologies would be returned to ordinary citizens in the form of a “social innovation” dividend – an income stream that would supplement workers’ earnings from the labor market.
In many ways, traditional philanthropies operate like venture capitalists.
Social venture capital firms, which seek a “double bottom line” (healthy financial returns, as well as broader social or environmental benefits) are one of the fastest-growing segments of the venture-capital industry.
A similar 1978 ruling, allowing pension funds to allocate some of their investments to non-traditional assets, helped fuel the growth of the venture capital industry.
Here, Greece lacks the necessary dynamism: venture capital investment flows are smaller, relative to GDP, in Greece than in any other EU country.
Similarly, the euro must not be allowed to become an Iron Curtain that consigns non-members to a high-risk zone where investors dare not venture.
They should prioritize measures to make it easier to start a business, lift barriers to venture capital, and introduce temporary 100% capital allowances to encourage businesses to bring forward investment.
In the Sesame Street of Palestine and Israel, the failure of the joint venture was really a success: the Muppets and their creators have given us another valuable lesson, this time in how – and how not – to help others.
I was invited by Martin Kelly, who represents IBM’s venture arm in Ireland.
Pressuring the PoachersNAIROBI – At one of Hanoi’s priciest restaurants, a group of Vietnamese businessmen meet their new American partners to celebrate their latest venture.
“An innovative economy needs open markets, venture capital, free thinking entrepreneurs, fast bankruptcy courts and solid protection of intellectual property,” she argues.
Last year, two more national-level GGFs were created: a $30 billion state venture capital investment fund and a $50 billion state structural adjustment fund.
Whatever got Silicon Valley going, its advantages in attracting quality labor and venture capital multiplied as the region grew.
Just as venture capital, which Sir Ronald also pioneered in Britain, responded to the financing needs of the dot-com revolution a generation ago, social impact investment can help us reach the next stage of innovative social reform.
And in a venture that promises “flight for all,” German start-up Volocopter has designed the 2X, a miniature helicopter with 18 rotors that will begin test flights in Dubai later this year.
Investing in a green future can clearly be a commercial venture as much as a social or moral obligation.
The venture, it seems clear, made good business and economic sense.
Since US politics no longer stops at the water’s edge, Obama’s decision was greeted with howls of derision by those who argued that he was “uncommitted” to the Iraq venture and somehow did not make his best effort to keep troops there.
The potential entry of Chinese firms in the massive rehabilitation of Marawi City is the latest major venture for China in the Philippines.
In short, Zaleski and Berry’s venture promises to put positive pressure on other workplaces.
Nobody wants to demonize or unnecessarily restrict private equity and hedge funds, and venture capital’s investment in innovative and high-risk new companies highlights their potentially useful role.
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