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What Innovators Can Learn From the Spectacular Rise and Crash of Theranos

Innovation Excellence

Including its CEO Elizabeth Holmes Last week in a Silicon Valley courtroom, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was convicted on four counts of fraud in connection with the failed blood-testing company she founded in 2003. The Stanford dropout will … Continue reading →

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PBTO56: The Inevitable – Technological Forces that will Shape Our Future with Kevin Kelly

Rmukesh Gupta

He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular Cool Tools website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003. What are some of the most important skills that we need to learn in order to stay relevant: To learn how to learn (Meta skill or the super skill). Learn how to ask questions.

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

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Entrepreneurship. Shane, 2003). Entrepreneurial thinking. That brings us to entrepreneurial thinking.

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How China Creates the Strongest Innovation System

The BMI Lab Blog

At BMI Lab we wanted to learn how they did it, so we travelled to China with some clients, visiting companies, factories, labs and universities to find the recipe for the secret sauce of Chinese innovation. Dr. HAN, Zheng , Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Tongji University Shanghai). But how was this possible?

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

Organizational learning helps innovative organizations to deal with the ever-changing, unsure and unpredictable context of business (Van De Vrande, 2017). Learning while (re)configuring: Business model innovation processes in established firms. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 9(4), 351–379. doi:10.1111/jpim.12117.