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Mastering the Game: Corporate Executives and the Art of Startup Investment

Leapfrogging

CVC units often focus on securing a competitive advantage by investing in startups with innovative technologies or business models that align with the corporation’s strategic goals. By engaging with and investing in startups, companies can gain insights into emerging technologies, trends, and business practices.

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Driving Success: Harnessing the Power of the Startup Ecosystem

Leapfrogging

These young companies thrive on adaptability, a drive for growth, and often, a technology-based solution that disrupts existing markets or creates new ones. Engaging with the startup ecosystem enables corporates to tap into novel ideas and technologies, staying ahead of industry curves and often leapfrogging conventional R&D limitations.

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Unlocking Success in the Complex World of Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs)

Yet2

The recent CPHI North America conference in Philadelphia, attended by yet2 Senior Project Leader Hayden Hodges, highlighted important industry themes relevant to our clients and shed light on the importance of thorough research and matchmaking when choosing a CMO partner.

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Innovation Budget Planning

eZassi

From the Harvard Business Review article “ An Agile Approach to Budgeting for Uncertain Times ,” here are the curated questions your team should ask while planning for projects in the year ahead: What are the outcomes that will be most important for strategic success? Technology Scouting Services. Innovation Strategy Consulting.

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Harnessing the Power: Navigating AI-Driven Rapid Change in Business Strategy

Leapfrogging

The Age of AI and Business Strategy Understanding AI-Driven Rapid Change In the current landscape, AI-driven technologies are reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. Embracing AI means more than just implementing new technologies; it involves rethinking entire business operations from the ground up.

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Top 10 yet2 Blog Posts of 2018

Yet2

Our team wrote a number of widely read blog posts in 2018, spanning the topics of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, adjacency in tech scouting, startups and their comparative value proposition, anonymous searches in tech scouting and more. Tech Scouting Blog Posts. Here’s a recap of those blog posts.

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The state of innovation at the end of 2018

Jeffrey Phillips

Since everyone is compelled to write at least one backward looking story at the end of the year, I've chosen as my topic a review of innovation at the end of 2018. This is money that will need to be paid back, and when the money comes due consumers will be forced to cut back. Let's look way back to establish a baseline.