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Unlocking Success: Leveraging Startup Innovation with Corporate Venture Capital

Leapfrogging

The Intersection of Corporate Growth and Startup Innovation Defining Corporate Venture Capital Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) is the investment of corporate funds directly in external startup companies. For a more comprehensive understanding, readers can explore our detailed overview of corporate venture capital.

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It’s Time To Upgrade Your Innovation Management System

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | After the Covid-19 pandemic, many corporate innovation units felt a sense of relief. Companies were optimistic, innovation budgets grew, and there was an increased appetite for out-of-the-box innovation. It's fair to say the future of our companies depend on our innovation function to deliver results.

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Zebras - Not Unicorns - for Profitable and Scalable Corporate Innovation

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | How Zurich Insurance Group uses its annual Innovation Championship to harness the innovative potential of startups for long term success. Innovation at Zurich Insurance Group is characterized by a mindset that embraces challenge head-on. The Zurich Innovation Championship is an important link in this chain.

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Innovation and the Baskin-Robbins effect

Jeffrey Phillips

Most corporations suffer from what I call the Baskin-Robbins syndrome when it comes to innovation - there are far too many options and flavors, and that makes choosing the right innovation activities and investing in the right innovation outcomes exceptionally difficult. The same is true for innovation.

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The Ten Types of Innovation

Destination Innovation

How many types of innovation are there? The simplest way to categorize innovation is into two forms – incremental and radical. Incremental innovation is an improvement in an existing thing (e.g. Radical innovation is finding an entirely new way of doing something. E.g. Gillette innovated with the razor and blades model.

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Winpak Case Study: Connecting Employees Across Multiple Continents and Languages

IdeaScale

Overview: Winpak, a global packaging company, noticed that its innovation outreach efforts were limited to those who were able to attend at specific times and places and rarely from its 2,500 frontline workers. 25hundred Innovators. As such, it’s constantly striving for new ideas to upgrade its processes and products.

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How Innovation Awards Can Fuel Business Growth

IdeaScale

Today we are going to talk to Atul Dubey, Chief Strategy Officer at Wolters Kluwer, about innovation. He has a broad set of responsibilities collectively focused on the company’s growth agenda, including the stewardship of the company’s Global Innovation Awards process. What does this say about your innovation strategy?