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Four Innovation Ecosystem Building Blocks

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell It’s hard to find anyone who wouldn’t agree that Microsoft’s 2001 antitrust case was a disaster for the company. Not only did it lose the case, but it wasted time, money and—perhaps most importantly—focus on … Continue reading →

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New Decade, New What?

100%Open

Clarke made one bizarrely accurate prediction as two astronauts in the movie 2001 can be seen reading a newspaper on something that looks suspiciously like an iPad, that he calls a Newspad. Open innovation will continue to grow as companies come under pressure for greater transparency, accountability and network-building.

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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp joined in 2001 and was promoted to CEO three years later at the age of 36. Collaborate to innovate. There are many books and studies describing the company’s approach. Here we try to compress all the myriad comments and analyses into a few transferable lessons. They appointed a new CEO.

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Axel Springer & External Innovation. How to turn “Spray and Pray” into “Spray and Succeed”?

CREATORS

for corporations to invest in digital transformation and innovation. However, the ways in which they focus and collaborate with the innovation ecosystem can be very different. Their radical and successful transformation encouraged us to dig deeper into their external innovation strategy and its implementation.

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

Open Innovation EU

Corporate entrepreneurship has been widely studied because it is believed that it directly leads to innovation and an organization is not able to sustain competiveness over time without renewal or regeneration (Covin, Green, & Slevin, 2006; Damanpour & Gopalakrishnan, 2001; S. Lans et al. 9: The Risk-taking Paradox.

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Hunting Innovation: Incorporating Tech Scouting & Corporate Venturing Into Your Internal Innovation Process

Qmarkets

HP bought Compaq in 2001 for a whopping $25 billion, and just a few weeks ago, Microsoft bought professional social network LinkedIn for a cool $26 billion. There are many different types of innovation. Some are internal ( involving employees , incremental innovation , etc.),

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Hunting Innovation: Incorporating Tech Scouting & Corporate Venturing Into Your Internal Innovation Process

Qmarkets

HP bought Compaq in 2001 for a whopping $25 billion, and just a few weeks ago, Microsoft bought professional social network LinkedIn for a cool $26 billion. There are many different types of innovation. Some are internal ( involving employees , incremental innovation , etc.),