Companies that make venture-capital investments can get an inside view of where markets and technology are headed. : https://www.wsj.com/articles/pro-take-corporate-venture-capital-provides-path-for-long-term-tech-strategy-6f75eb75 Large, public companies, under pressure from the capital markets, aren’t always geared toward long-term thinking. Yet there is one part of the corporate realm in which strategic horizons of a decade or more have a place: corporate venture capital.