Sustainable Development and CSR

Access to the Corporate Venture Capital Investors' Complementary Resources to Leverage Innovation

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Entrepreneurship, Innovation Management, Management of SMEs, Sustainable Development and CSR

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Access to the Corporate Venture Capital Investors’ Complementary Resources to Leverage Innovation

The aim of this study is to provide investors, policymakers and others with information on how greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and green innovation affect corporate financial performance. Although reporting by corporate venture capital (CVC) firms on GHG emissions as well as their green innovation has increased significantly, especially in the last two decades, little is known about how these two factors affect financial performance. To fill this gap, this article investigates the relationships between environmental performance, green innovation, and financial performance in CVC investments in the US over an 18-year period between 2002 and 2019.

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Corporate venture capital

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SHUWAIKH Fatima
Associate Professor
EMLV

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