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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Focus stage: Growth Published: 2009 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2009 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2009 more…. Process of Creativity (Gill). Creative Problem Solving (Isaksen). Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Bessant). Double Diamond (Chu). Focus stage: Seed Published: 2014 more….

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Building a Culture of Innovation

Fehmida Kapadia

The right geographical, cultural, and economic environments can create an ecosystem that facilitates innovation and creativity. We can take these pages from history and implement those lessons to build ecosystems of innovation and creativity. Genius is created, not born. But when we inhibit our impulses we also inhibit our imagination.

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The new ROI for digital innovation

Paul Hobcraft

The “impact economy” has been defined by the Aspen Institute as the “twin forces of supply and demand, impact investing and social entrepreneurship, that is driving systemic change in the US and around the world.”. When we map problem spaces (U.S.Healthcare) we are looking for impact investing.

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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. 2006) and are more likely to be created by making new and unique combinations (S. Shane, 2003).

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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. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 9(4), 351–379.

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The Ambidextrous Organization

Open Innovation EU

Their answers were almost the same: Osterwalder mentioned that every board should consist of both a Chief Executive Office and a Chief Entrepreneurship Officer. In order to elaborate on the magic that happens when design meets business we should therefore look at theory on entrepreneurship that deals with this magic. De Jong, J.