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.

摘要： 风险投资作为将新技术和金融相结合的投融资模式，对大公司技术创新具有显著推动作用。自20 世纪 90 年代末以来，国际大石油公司和油服公司先后成立了专业的公司风险投资基金或机构，对技术型创业公司进行投资， 一方面加强公司的外部技术获取，一方面通过投资来盈利。近年受低油价影响，上游技术领域的风险投资持续降低， 清洁技术有所回升、数字技术显著增长，投资重点敏锐调整以寻求资本和效率更高。分析了雪佛龙、壳牌风险投资公 司的运作与进展。指出风险投资是当今保证石油公司在新技术领域与时俱进、推进跨界融合、加快技术商业化价值实 现的重要途径，我国石油企业应借鉴国外成功经验，主动探索建立风险投资机制，为公司转型升级和可持续发展做出 贡献。

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