关键词: 风险投资, 开放式创新, 石油行业, 技术获取, 多学科融合, 创业公司

Abstract: Corporate venture, as a fund-raising and investment pattern combining new technology with finance, remarkably helped big companies with their technological innovation. International oil majors and oilfield service companies have launched their specialized corporate venture funds or organs to invest in technology-based companies, acquiring external technologies on one hand and making profit by means of investment on the other. Corporate ventures in the upstream technological area have continued to drop in recent years owing to the influence of low oil prices, but clean technology investment began to rise again while digital technology investment saw a remarkable growth. The companies acutely relocated the focus of investment in an attempt for higher capital efficiency. This article analyzes operation and development of the corporate ventures owned by Chevron and Shell. It points out that corporate venture is an important way to keep oil companies abreast with contemporary development in the new technological area, promote multi-disciplinary integration and accelerate commercialization of new technology. China’s oil companies should borrow the successful experience from their foreign counterparts, and actively make study of corporate venture mechanism, making contributions for their modernization and sustainable development.