Venture Capital: Fueling the Innovation Economy

Venture capital experts explore current opportunities to fuel and benefit from the innovation economy. Venture capital remains a vibrant force in the US, funding a broad array of disruptive technologies and playing a major role in fueling a startup-based economy. A survey of Austin Technology Incubator´s recent startup portfolio suggests promising trends for venture investment in the innovation economy. Next-generation data analytics, offering strategic business applications that integrate data and technology into innovative and affordable tools, provide significant opportunities for venture investment. Corporations worldwide increasingly look to Silicon Valley´s culture of entrepreneurship and venture investment to create new models for successful disruptive innovation.