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PLAYING IT SAFE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU CAN DO

Innovation 360 Group

In 2015, they filed for bankruptcy, finally ceding their throne to mobile rideshares like Uber and Lyft. In 2006, the massive Tower fell, going from profitability to bankruptcy in a few years. Taxis, Records, and Toys: A tale of three industries. It wasn’t the tech startups alone that brought them down.

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

Open Innovation EU

Research has shown that innovation is mostly linked to the Schumpetarian view: innovative companies are more likely to be started by Schumpetarian-type founders (Samuelsson & Davidsson, 2009), are more likely to be started by engineering students (Ilozor et al., Klein & Bullock, 2006; Lewin, 2011; Von Mises, 1949).

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

Figure 1: Typology for Innovative Organizations. Why this typology: innovation management in organizations. Innovation Management focuses on creating and managing sustainable business (Crossan & Apaydin, 2010; Keeley, Walters, Pikkel, & Quinn, 2013). Academic Relevance. Socio-economic Relevance.