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My innovation journey (so far)

Jeffrey Phillips

We felt that to remain competitive, larger companies needed to recapture the sense of wonder and adventure that working in the "front end" of innovation would create. My friend, who founded OVO Innovation with me in 2004, was really passionate about the idea of reviving innovation in corporations.

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Innovation adoption in the technology lifecycle for Energy Translation

Paul Hobcraft

The economics of powering the energy system with renewables has got to the point where there is real competitiveness. The value within such a highly evolving market like energy transitions, the functional effects can be related to the risks of the dysfunctional.

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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills-Scofield

Blue Lobster at the South Bristol Coop , 2004. Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. They think they’re innovative because they make something in green instead of just red, but they stick with their industries, markets, customers, and (usually dying) business models.

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Crowdsourcing Case Study: Polaris Industries

Planview

When the program started back in 2004, the goal was to bring employees from all over the company together to present game-changing ideas, solve business challenges, and introduce exciting new offerings to market. We get to tap our employees’ expertise, bringing state-of-the-art vehicles to our global market quickly and repeatedly.”

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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills-Scofield

Blue Lobster at the South Bristol Coop , 2004. Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. They think they’re innovative because they make something in green instead of just red, but they stick with their industries, markets, customers, and (usually dying) business models.

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Origin Story of The first CT scan (Republished from The Conversation

Rmukesh Gupta

But by the ‘60s, EMI wanted out of the competitive computer market and wasn’t sure what to do with the brilliant, eccentric engineer. But there was a problem: EMI wasn’t involved in the medical market and had no desire to jump in. He continued to putter around with inventions until his final days in 2004, when he died at 84.

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Business model creation and innovation in China: not just copycats.

The BMI Lab Blog

“Lean value” focus: This approach is supported by the nature of the market. It is full of entrepreneurs, customers, markets and capital that happen at the same time. So, probably dozens of entrepreneurs are working on the same idea at the same time; the market will falsify most wrong assumptions quickly.