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Why you need extreme constraints to fuel innovation

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Never having gotten near bankruptcy like other airline majors, Southwest Airlines with its nonconformist culture has remained profitable for close to 50 years using focused innovations. Innovation is more about thinking than about product or process innovation. Constraints can be inspiring. Conclusion.

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

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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

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Quinn & Cameron argued that organization can be defined by their cultures and introduced their Competencies Values Framework. A Typology for Innovative Organizations. The model describes organizational typologies based on cultures of innovation. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 31(3), 616–635.

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Principles of open innovation

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Popularized by Henry Chesbrough,“Open Innovation” term refers to the broad concepts of leveraging external sources of technology and innovation to drive internal growth. Michael Docherty, 2006). Balancing external and internal R&D activities is key to achieving higher levels of innovation.