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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

The number of companies, which have established dedicated business model innovation units and processes is even lower. Alex Osterwalder defines a business model as “a set of assumptions or hypotheses” and Michael Lewis claims that “all it really meant was how you planned to make money” (Ovans, 2015). The object of innovation 2.

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How Has Innovation Created a Private Space Race?

IdeaScale

The global push to develop a private space industry was both driven by innovation and drives innovation in both the private and public sectors in turn. And it happened in large part due to a drive for innovation and a desire to take the space program to the public. The Promise of Space.

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What Makes Switzerland a Leader in Innovation?

IdeaScale

Switzerland takes the first place in the rating of the World Intellectual Property Organization on the level of innovation development. Switzerland is a global leader due to their level of scientific knowledge and their ability to launch technologies into consumables for the market. How have they achieved these results?

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Managing Energy Transition through Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

It is one of the most critical places where innovation application is required and able to be conducted to deliver a sustaining impact in our world. Innovation solutions will provide the energy transition needed, and that is what makes it such a compelling area to focus upon. The question is, will we?

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The best year in mankind – due to innovation, technology and global leadership!

Innovation 360 Group

What we refer to as a new way of thinking and acting is the science and best practice of leading innovation and innovate work – not necessary as an individuals rather as a company, region or a whole society. We all wish you and the rest or the world a fantastic innovative and sustainable new year 2016! The best year in mankind.

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How the GSAs 10X Program Advances Government Innovation

IdeaScale

Its success is due to a mixture of transparency, willingness to discuss when ideas won’t work, and accepting failure as part of the innovation process. It’s a role in government that demands constant innovation. And in 2015, that was what the GSA set out to encourage more of. Small Business Administration.

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Top 5 Women Innovators of All Time

IdeaScale

Most of us have little difficulty listing male inventors, but rattling off a list of female innovators is harder. It’s not because women don’t innovate, but because historically they haven’t had the educational opportunities that male innovators have had. Here are five of the top female innovators of all time.