Technology driven innovation and the rapid growth of global entrepreneurship, has changed the traditional innovation model resulting in the emergence of a collaborative ecosystem. In response to this new environment, large global companies have aggressively augmented their internal innovation activities with a variety of more “external facing” efforts that include corporate VC, open innovation, tech scouting, distributed innovation and incubation centers, etc. The objective of CEN is to provide networking opportunities within this community as well as to the external ecosystem.
