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How China Creates the Strongest Innovation System

The BMI Lab Blog

Massive investments, a huge market and the hiring of worldwide talent has boosted the Chinese innovative ecosystem. For instance, in Q3 2017, Tencent, the Chinese Internet company that developed WeChat and QQ, overran Facebook in terms of market value. China is no longer just the home of copycats. But how was this possible?

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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).

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Heterogeneity in Experience Levels Helps Startups Succeed

Michael Roberto

280), broadening the cumulative knowledge set of the team and thereby enabling more innovative insights and market responses, which ultimately resulted in improved venture performance. One explanation for these results is that diversification of experience levels enabled team members to escape their own “knowledge corridors” (Gruber et al.,

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 9(4), 351–379. The quest for professionalism: The case of management and entrepreneurship. A general theory of entrepreneurship: The individual-opportunity nexus. 2) and has been widely studied (i.e. 2015, Christensen, 2011, Birkinshaw & Gibson, 2004, Kelley, 2005). doi:10.1002/sej.1201.