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It’s Time To Be Skeptical About The Lean Startup. Here’s Why:

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It seemed that for years all anyone could talk about was disruptive innovation. That was until Henry Chesbrough published Open Innovation in 2003 and that got hot. In 1997 Clayton Christensen published The Innovator’s Dilemma and it sparked a revolution. Then Stanford launched its d.school and design thinking was where it was at.

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Open Innovation: definition, what types and benefits

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In his book, Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (Harvard Business School Press – 2003), researcher Henry Chesbrough coined the term Open Innovation. Keep reading to understand in depth what open innovation is and how it can be used in your business! The open innovation concept.

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

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Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).