The master thesis “Organizational Design of Corporate Ventures in the Energy Industry” addresses corporate venturing as a cooperative innovation strategy, specifically in the energy supply industry. Here is the abstract:

The energy transition and the resulting business environment characterized by environmental dynamics and order uncertainty are currently pushing Western European energy companies to the limits of their ability to innovate. In order to manage the energy transition, energy companies are increasingly turning to corporate venturing as a cooperative innovation strategy, although this has a failure rate of almost 75 percent. One of the primary reasons for this is an incompatible organizational design of the ventures with the corporate environment. In order to increase the success rate of CV investments in the energy sector, this master’s thesis uses a comparative case study to describe the corporate environment in the Western European energy sector on the basis of currently prevailing internal and external contingency factors in order to derive archetypal organizational configurations of external corporate ventures in the Western European energy sector on the basis of five selected organizational dimensions. In summary, the driving and enabling configurations were identified as archetypal design configurations for external corporate ventures to successfully cope with the prevailing order uncertainty and environmental dynamics.