Corporate Startup Stars

Featuring a key panel presented by the Economist Impact

London

2022 Awards Celebration

Corporate Startup Stars is the annual
celebration of the best global practices
and role models in open innovation

Organized by Mind the Bridge
in partnership with the International
Chamber of Commerce, the CSS recognizes
trailblazing international companies in the area
of corporate-startup collaboration

The Celebration of Best Practices and Role Models in Open Innovation

2021 Top 3 Corporate Startup Stars

Winner

Corporate
Startup
Star

Second place

Corporate
Startup
Star

Third place

Corporate
Startup
Star

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Methodology

Mind the Bridge, in partnership with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) developed a framework to recognize the best companies in Open Innovation and Corporate-Startup Collaboration. Forbes 2000 and Fortune Global 500 companies based on publicly available information were analyzed and the best in Open Innovation were presented to a Judging Committee composed of independent experts from different innovation backgrounds.

An application form was also available on the website corporatestartupstars.com to allow every other company to apply. In sum, overall results achieved across seven Open Innovation variables were factored: Innovation Organizational Structure, Intrapreneurship, Accelerator, Venture Builder, Venture Client (Procurement from startups), CVC (Startup Investments), and M&A (Acquisitions).

Judging Committee

In defining the final ranking we will be helped by a panel of judges composed
of the following exceptional professionals

  • Candace Johnson

    Serial Entrepreneur, President Emeritus EBAN, ICC Executive Board member

  • Vivek Wadhwa

    Technology entrepreneur, academic and author

  • Valentina Mintah

    Founder at West Blue Consulting, Founder at e-Ananse

  • Nicolas Brien

    Chairman at EuraTechnologies and former Chief Executive Officer of France Digitale

  • Natalie Refuah

    General Partner at Viola Growth

  • Faisal AlHawi

    Head of Accelerators and Incubators, Dubai Future Foundation

  • Fernando Spnola

    Managing General Partner, Base Partners

  • Priya Guha

    Venture Partner at Merian Ventures, formerly GM for RocketSpace and British Consul General to San Francisco

  • Timothy Tong

    CEO of the AMTD Foundation, President Emeritus of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, former Dean of George Washington University

  • Rebecca Enonchong

    Founding member of the African Business Angel Network (ABAN), founder and CEO of AppsTech and Vice Chair of the WHO Foundation

  • JongKap Kim

    Chief Executive Director at Born2Global Centre

  • Miguel Arias

    Serial Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist (Partner K FUND) and Corporate Innovation-Venturing Executive (former Global Entrepreneurship Director at Telefónica)

  • Richard Belluzzo

    Former Microsoft President and COO, HP Vicepresident, Silicon Graphics CEO

  • Gigi Wang

    Industry Faculty, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, UC Berkeley

  • Ralph-Christian Ohr

    Corporate innovation expert specialized in Dual Innovation and “Scaling-Up” book author

  • Alberto Onetti

    Serial entrepreneur, University Professor, Mind the Bridge Chairman and coordinator of the Startup Europe Partnership

2022 Awards Categories

Corporate
Startup
Stars

Best-in-class Open Innovation practices and promoting corporate-startup collaborations globally

Open
Innovation
Challengers

Challengers of the status quo bringing forward novel approaches in the space of corporate Open Innovation

Regional
Awards

North American, South American, Europe, East Asia, India, China, Middle East, Africa, Australia

Supernova
Award

Born in the past 25 years, performing extremely well in working with other startups

Rising Stars
Award

Companies not listed in the Fortune 500/Forbes 2000 list, with emerging approaches

Special
Category
Awards

Corporate Startup
Accelerator

Corporate Venture Client
Award

Corporate Venture Capital
Award

Startup M&A
Award

Venture Builder
Award

Intrapreneurship Program
Award

Innovation Organization
Award

Winner Orbit

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