Corporate Startup Stars

Featuring a key panel presented by

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 and 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