Félix Cárdenas

Professor Cárdenas del Castillo has been a researcher and affiliate professor at Harvard University, University of Columbia, IESE, the University of Texas at Austin and Tecnológico de Monterrey.

He is co-author of books such as “Comprar un Empresa Exitosa? El Search Fund como Modelo de Emprendimiento, y Open Innovation: Academic and Practical Perspectives on the Journey from Idea to Market, Oxford University Press. His research work has been presented in international congresses in San Francisco, Boston, Nueva York (USA), Geneva, Zurich (Switzerland), Istanbul (Turkey), and Nice (France).

He develops corporate venture capital strategies with corporates, impacting on growth and profitability. He has been an advisor and has conducted research for companies such as Cisco, Nokia, Alcan, Logitech, General Electric, Cemex, FEMSA, Credit Suisse, Proeza, Heineken, and Nestle.

In addition to his role as Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at EGADE Business School, Professor Cárdenas is partner of the fund EFM Capital and InnovaCamp Ventures. He was a partner in Vento Capital and Director of greenTEK ventures in Switzerland. His research interests include private capital, entrepreneurial capital, innovation ecosystems, competitive strategy, innovation management, corporate entrepreneurship, value creation, and technology transfer.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Open Innovation: Academic and Practical Perspectives on the Journey from Idea to Market publication date Jan 12, 2016 publication description Oxford University Press ISBN 978-019-93744-4-1
• ¿Cómo comprar una empresa exitosa? El Search Fund como modelo de emprendimiento publication date Jul 31, 2014 publication description http://kap.mx/fondoB1
• Corporate Venture Capital. Inversión y Visión: Pilares del Crecimiento publication date Dec 1, 2016 publication description Instituto Mexicano de Ejecutivos de Finanzas (IMEF) Fundación de Investigación
• Complementarity between Corporate Venture Capital and R&D for Value Creation. Nominated Best Paper Award publication date Sep 1, 2012 publication description Strategic Management Society (SMS). Prague, Czech Republic.
• Internal and External Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Activity publication date Aug 1, 2012 publication description Academy of Management (AOM). Boston, USA

AWARDS & HONORS

• Research Fellowship Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
• Research Fellowship National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt)