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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Entrepreneurship. 2006) and are more likely to be created by making new and unique combinations (S. Shane, 2003).

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50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Open Innovation EU

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. Lean Innovation Management — Making Corporate Innovation Work {{meta.description}}.

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The Ambidextrous Organization

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Their answers were almost the same: Osterwalder mentioned that every board should consist of both a Chief Executive Office and a Chief Entrepreneurship Officer. Bessant noted that organizations should always find a balance between innovators and innovation managers. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 9(4), 351–379. ??.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

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Figure 1: Typology for Innovative Organizations. Why this typology: innovation management in organizations. Innovation Management focuses on creating and managing sustainable business (Crossan & Apaydin, 2010; Keeley, Walters, Pikkel, & Quinn, 2013). MIT Sloan Management Review, 48(2), 22–28.

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Organizing for Simultaneous Innovation Capability – key findings from +1,000 companies, republished from Drucker Forum 2016

Innovation 360 Group

All companies have a conscious or unconscious strategy, leadership, culture, capabilities, and competencies they use to improve and innovate business internally (e.g. According to Steve Coley (2009) the innovation work can be divided into three parallel Horizons , each one representing an S-Curve. value proposition).

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Organizing for Simultaneous Innovation Capability – key findings from +1,000 companies, republished from Drucker Forum 2016

Innovation 360

All companies have a conscious or unconscious strategy, leadership, culture, capabilities, and competencies they use to improve and innovate business internally (e.g. According to Steve Coley (2009) the innovation work can be divided into three parallel Horizons , each one representing an S-Curve. value proposition).

Company 40