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With innovation becoming increasingly important in a world of global competition, many large companies are to realizing that they cannot invent everything, and that the best way to develop new products and strategies is to invest in smaller, external companies that are at the cutting edge of developments in any given sector. Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) units are large corporations’ attempts to access these innovation networks.

Prepare for this year's new threats.

Predicting the future in such a rapidly evolving environment is near impossible. One only needs to count the rate at which new malware appears today compared to five years ago to see how quickly the threat has become more serious. Read Sophos' security threat report to read about the malware trends they predict will be at the forefront in 2009.

This report examines corporate venture capital (CVC) as a model of innovation. CVC programs in established corporations invest in and partner with entrepreneurial companies. By doing so, established companies are able to identify and source new emerging technologies from entrepreneurial companies.

This volume of Progress of the World’s Women asks the question “Who answers to women?” at a pivotal moment. It demonstrates that the Millennium Development Goals and other international commitments to women will only be met if gender-responsive accountability systems are put in place both nationally and internationally.

Acknowledging that different groups of women encounter distinct challenges in gaining access to their rights, the publication examines how women, including the most excluded women, are strengthening their capacity to identify accountability gaps and call for redress.

World Investment Report 2008 (WIR08) is the 18th in a series published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The Report analyses the latest trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) and has a special focus in 2008 on the role of transnational corporations (TNCs) in infrastructure development.

The Global MBA Graduate Survey is a product of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), a global nonprofit education organization of leading graduate business schools and the owner of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT).

A cross-border survey providing insights into personal tax trends. Drawing on KPMG's network of professionals from firms around the world, International Executive Services has pulled together personal income tax rates from 87 countries for each of the past six years.