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Innovation & Strategy Conference: Driving Home Disruption

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Karen Madden , VP Technology and Innovation of PerkinElmer, provided first-hand experience and advice on how big corporations can drive impact by cooperating with startups: “It’s not an option anymore, if you don’t team up with the disruptive, you’re going to get disrupted.” Innovation Focused on Purpose-Driven Purchases.

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Innovative Businesses Prioritize Creativity

Daniel Burrus

Most notably, older organizations are the ones that place creativity in one column and positive disruptions via innovation in another. This can certainly be viewed as a positive feat: For a company like Citibank to withstand so many outside disruptions, they have to be doing something right!

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A whole-health approach to skin care: Could hormones explain your skin issues?

Christensen Institute

Given its focus on the underlying causes of skin health, in this analysis, I’ll assess Veracity’s disruptive potential compared to seeing a dermatologist for aesthetic skin problems. Does its whole-health approach to skin care pose disruptive potential in the health care market? We put Veracity to our six-question test to find out.

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The new ROI for digital innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation has had a bigger brother moving into the house next door; Digital Technology and between them, they have been busily knocking the walls down, to share the future going forward. Data specific, technology driven, innovation invigorating. The two have become interlinked, you seem to always need the one to respond to the other.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

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. In times of crisis, consumers cut on spendings deemed unnecessary like technology.

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COVID-19: Business R&D Spending Will Fall by at Least 5-6%

Commodore Innovation

As individuals we are grappling with the fear, disruption and uncertainty brought about by COVID-19. Innovation teams are not, of course, immune to this disruption. Great Recession (late-2007 to mid-2009): R&D spending didn’t decline until 2009 (by 5.2%), but the decline continued into 2010 (0.4%).

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Report Highlights Increased Open Innovation Activity

IdeaConnection

That’s one of the conclusions of the 2016 State of Innovation Report: Disruptive, Game-Changing Innovation by the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters. percent in 2015, driving the overall growth rate for patents to over 100 percent since the State of Innovation study was launched in 2009.

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