《互联网周刊》:大型跨国公司尤其是IT巨头参与创业投资已经成为了一种普遍现象。例如Intel、Cisco 等在创投基金下成长起来的企业现在反过来成了创业资本的供给者。作为“百年老店”,西门子为什么也加入到了创业投资的行列? 狄特希·沃尔默:仅仅50年前,很多大企业都希望自己对所在产业领域的事情能够亲历亲为。但是随着全球化的发展,小企业的创新活动日益活跃。在无线通信领域伴随着语音业务到数据业务的发展趋势,小企业的创新活动尤其活跃。在全球,小企业拥有的专利数占 “Internet Weekly”: Large multinationals, especially IT giants to participate in venture capital has become a common phenomenon. Companies such as Intel and Cisco that grew up under venture capital funds are now in turn providers of venture capital. As a “hundred-year-old”, why did Siemens join the ranks of venture capital companies? Dieter Volcker: Just 50 years ago, many big companies wanted to be familiar with what they were doing in their industry. However, with the development of globalization, the innovation activities of small enterprises are increasingly active. In the field of wireless communications, along with the trend of voice services to data services, the innovation activities of small enterprises are particularly active. In the world, small businesses own the number of patents