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Matching generally unadventurous large businesses with innovative smaller businesses. Our work with Corporate Venturing UK * who closed in August 2004 added to our contacts and know how.

Our in house experience of :-

·	creating value within large quoted companies,

·	working as and with small and medium enterprises

·	highly innovative and irregular creative people and research academics’ businesses

·	investment appraisal and due diligence

·	grants and incentives in kind

·	enterprise and business agencies

·	venture capital

start ups

·	fund managers

·	joint industry projects

allows us to construct coherent pathfinder proposals early in the matching process. We find pathfinder proposals are useful in

focusing thoughts and reactions and, even if the pathfinder gets trampled in the process, we emerge quickly with much clearer objectives on all sides. Identifying negatives early helps reduce resource consumption on dogs and assists progress up the corporate venturing learning curve ready for taking aboard the next possibility.

Venturing partnerships are a long odds activity, maybe 3% take rate, cf 1% for venture capital. Our pathfinding approach improves on these rates.

CVUK who, with DTI and professional firm sponsorship, operated from mid 2002 to mid 2004 :-

·	raised awareness of the venturing process

* CVUK wound up in August 2004 after two