Lucent Technologies: The Future of the New Ventures Group

Henry W. Chesbrough, Anthony Massaro

Lucent Technologies' New Ventures Group has created innovative ways to commercialize Bell Labs research. The success of this approach now forces the group to evaluate whether to stay inside Bell Labs or become an external venture capitalist group.

Learning Objective

To explore a type of corporate venture capital organization and to identify issues in commercializing research discoveries.

Details

Pub Date: Jun 5, 2001(Revised: Nov 13, 2001)

Discipline: Strategy

Subjects: Commercialization, Information economy, Innovation, Technology, Venture capital

Source: Harvard Business School

Product #: 601102-PDF-ENG

Teaching note: Not available

Industry: Telecommunications

Geography: New Jersey

Length: 19 page(s)