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

Open Innovation EU

In essence it is nowadays recognized as the difference between creativity (Schumpetarian) and alertness (Kirzner) – creation versus discovering. The entrepreneur is an innovator and disturbs the economy (De Jong & Marsili, 2010; Schumpeter, 1934). When to be creative, when to be managerial. Lans et al. 2016 figure 2, p.

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A New Model to Start Innovation

Gijs Van Wulfen

Cornelius Herstatt and Birgit Verworn state on this: “Within the innovation process, we believe, the early phases (“fuzzy front end”) to have the highest impact on the whole process and the result, since it will influence the design and total costs of the innovation extremely. Dr. Cornelius Herstatt, Dipl.-Ing.

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3 of the Best Innovation Team Formulas…and When to Ignore Them

Qmarkets

Many folks don’t believe in structured innovation arguing that any “structure” kills creativity and stifles innovation. Even some innovation experts claim that “ innovation is everyone’s job.” Actually this notion that “innovation is everyone’s job” is quite popular in many companies.

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3 of the Best Innovation Team Formulas…and When to Ignore Them

Qmarkets

Many folks don’t believe in structured innovation arguing that any “structure” kills creativity and stifles innovation. Even some innovation experts claim that “ innovation is everyone’s job.” Actually this notion that “innovation is everyone’s job” is quite popular in many companies.