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Why are innovation ecosystems important?

Paul Hobcraft

Recently, I presented my framework to the GIMI think tank GIMI was initiated by a worldwide group of chief innovation officers, innovation executives, academics and consultants in 2009. Connecting innovation, business, dynamics, and enterprise is crucial for creativity, growth, adaptability and growth.

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100%Open Past and Future

100%Open

A Reflection on 10 Years in Open Innovation. When 100%Open was spun out of Nesta 10 years ago, open innovation was interesting. Interesting – as one of those challenger strategies that would never really rock the boat. Of course, proprietary innovation is the lifeblood of large companies.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Previous recessions showed that companies that invested in innovation through crisis outperformed their peers. As McKinsey points out , organizations that focused on innovation even during the 2009 crisis, outperformed the market average by 30% and their growth continued to accelerate the following years as well.

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Building a Culture of Innovation

Fehmida Kapadia

These games are wonderful at promoting teamwork, camaraderie and collaboration, because they allow us to be children again and experience the unbridled joy of being silly, of failing and trying again. As Peter Thiel appropriately said “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Collaboration and competition do not go well together.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

An updated version of typologies is useful because it adopts new discussions, for instance about overexploitation (Raworth, 2017), innovation (Coley, 2009) and sustainability (Griggs et al, 2013; Sachs, 2012, United Nations, 2017) and puts them at the heart of organizational typology. Why companies should have open business models.

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

However, by developing an innovation strategy that anticipates a downturn, you can help your enterprise weather the storm and even uncover lucrative ways to gain a competitive edge. Even during stable economic times, it’s worth implementing a Kaizen system to prime your continuous improvement strategy for long-term business success.

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33 Routes to Open Innovation

Open Innovation EU

It has been a while since Henry Chesbrough coined the term Open Innovation and formulated it’s definition: “combining internal and external ideas as well as internal and external paths to market to advance the development of new technologies.” Open Innovation as a paradigm on itself is on its quest to touch base.