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How University Collaborations Can Drive Private Sector Innovation

Idea to Value

The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies. In exchange for financing and mentorship, an established business can be at the forefront of new products, models, and technologies.

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New Business Designs can be delivered through a Business Ecosystem Approach.

Paul Hobcraft

When looking at radically different thinking and design in business, where Ecosystems become central, you need to ask yourself what industries would benefit from such an alternative design and thinking due to the changing complexities and challenges they are facing.

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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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Constructing the innovation mandate

Paul Hobcraft

It is our ability to consistently capture, build and develop new ideas within organizations or in open collaborations with others that have a direct effect on revenue growth and the ability to provide future sustainability. So often innovation struggles to be recognized for what it is.

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Collaborate With a Strategic Alliance to Find Success

Daniel Burrus

Traditionally, the concept of success through collaboration in the business world has been focused on eliminating competition to find success in ways that benefit the industry the competitors share. But with a sudden economic downturn due to a worldwide lockdown, what exactly were they thinking by doing this?

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How to turn a Multinational Automotive-Finance Company into an Innovation Powerhouse

Qmarkets

With over 3,100 employees across 36 companies, RCI Bank and Services is a multinational finance company which is focused on delivering innovative services to customers of the Renault and Nissan automotive groups. Jean-Philippe Mathes: As we all know, the finance industry is more ripe for technological disruption than almost any other sector.

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The Importance of Innovation at the Front End of the Energy Transition.

Innovating4Energy

Today, this must be done through more outstanding collaborations, especially recognizing the value and benefits of ecosystem thinking and design. Placing a greater emphasis and set of resources on Innovation will help make rapid progress towards a more sustainable and efficient energy future in highly collaborative and open ways.