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Business model creation and innovation in China: not just copycats.

The BMI Lab Blog

Chinese innovators work in a swift, flexible and creative way. Innovation through creative adaptation: Chinese innovators are bold enough to challenge former business models, merging different choices and creating new ones. Lean value” focus: This approach is supported by the nature of the market. How do Chinese innovators work?

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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. Shane, 2003). When to be creative, when to be managerial. Practice of Empathy: can be taught using creative research methods. Figure 2: EntreComp Framework (Bacigalupo et al.,