Accelerators & Open Innovation
summary
Panel argues corporates use three tactics—build, partner, buy—and backs it with specifics: recent buys like cruise automation $1B, Dollar Shave Club $1B and gedcom $3.3B; Orange runs seven accelerators, ~3,500 researchers and has accelerated ~200 companies via Orange Digital Ventures; Google runs a 600‑engineer R&D center and Campus Tel Aviv with Launchpad (350 startups, 25 cycles, now in 22 countries) and niche programs like Campus Tel Aviv bootcamps; Intel commits a $300 million diversity fund and already funds about six diverse startups; Microsoft reports 6/8 accelerator grads raising follow‑on rounds (≈80%).
AI-written summary · about
chapters (14)
- 0:00Corporate-startup collaboration
- 1:06Panelist introductions
- 6:27Corporate startup strategies
- 10:00Microsoft’s startup ecosystem
- 11:51Google’s open innovation
- 13:59Startup support stages
- 18:13Intel’s diversity investments
- 20:46Diversity in tech entrepreneurship
- 24:14Accelerators in ecosystems
- 29:15Go Ignite accelerators
- 30:39Scaling accelerators
- 33:31Targeted accelerator design
- 35:18Global entrepreneurship trends
- 35:40Startup-corporate advice
related talks
37mOnline Innovators Supporting Social Entrepreneurs
10mLightning Talk: Amplifying University Research Impact with Open Source
42mPanel Discussion: The Next Phase in OSS
23mHow Open Source is Leading Open Innovation at Scale
03mHighlights - Our Secret to Innovation
46mBoF: Collaboration with Universit...
46mPanel: Venture Capital and Open Source, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
39mOpen-Source and Exponential Business