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How to Spot Your Innovation Blind Spot

Phil McKinney

How To Avoid Being Surprised By Your Innovation Blind Spot First and foremost, avoid cognitive biases by opening up your mind to new ideas and concepts. Be curious and invest in learning about new industries, trends, and technologies. Accept that failure is a part of the innovation process.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

With a strong background in R&D, Eric now uses his expertise to help leading organizations deliver innovations across a range of industries and use cases. From 2003 to 2007, I have been in charge of the R&D project portfolio management line of business at a solution provider. Merging Theory and Practice.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

With a strong background in R&D, Eric now uses his expertise to help leading organizations deliver innovations across a range of industries and use cases. From 2003 to 2007, I have been in charge of the R&D project portfolio management line of business at a solution provider. Merging Theory and Practice.

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Innovation’s New World Order

Innovation in Practice

If you instead focus on where the world’s largest companies actually do the work of innovation, the story is very different. We’ve done that analysis in this year’s study , comparing today’s data with the situation in 2007, when we first examined the globalization of corporate innovation spending. Based in Florham Park, N.J.,

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Top 3 Alternative Assets for your Business Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

This can give your business the advantage of knowing where the future of your industry lies and give you a competitive head start. Benefits of Crowdsourcing Trends Facilitate Focused & Efficient Ideation: Within innovation, knowing where to focus your ideas by basing them on trend data is extremely efficient.

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Get Real About Your Company’s Future

The Inovo Group

Innovative approaches are filling this gap and proving their value to companies that adopt them. When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, Research in Motion (RIM) was a major player in a worldwide market that sold about one billion cell phones annually (the term “smartphone” was new). Would that company invest in R&D?

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

Open Innovation EU

In the Schumpetarian view, opportunities arise from the internal willingness to change the industry. The entrepreneur is an innovator and disturbs the economy (De Jong & Marsili, 2010; Schumpeter, 1934). Entrepreneurial thinking is described as having an entrepreneurial expert mindset (Krueger, 2007). Krueger, 2007).