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There are Knowns and Unknowns in Innovation: Let’s Manage Them Differently

Paul Hobcraft

Secretary of Defense Donald Henry Rumsfeld, who mentioned: “unknown unknowns” (Rumsfeld, 2002). For innovators so much of innovation is hard to detect, it needs discovery and working through these quadrants of knowledge as well. Our pursuit in life is often the same as our innovation efforts, the search for discovery.

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COVID-19: Business R&D Spending Will Fall by at Least 5-6%

Commodore Innovation

Innovation teams are not, of course, immune to this disruption. Innovation should be part of the immediate response In the immediate term, innovation teams have opportunities to stay relevant by helping their organizations respond effectively to the new environment in which we find ourselves. in 2001 and a further 5.6%

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Spotting Innovation Opportunities

ITONICS

A strategic innovation field, let’s call it “ opportunity space ”, can be found by connecting all the dots between bits of diverse information you already know and put them together in a way that breaks a pattern. So why is it so very important to take this upstream step in the innovation process? The Innovator’s Dilemma.