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50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

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During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. Source: www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/when-toyota-met-e-commerce-lean-at-amazon.

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

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That is the lesson learned at Lego — just in time,” says David Robertson, Professor of Practice teaching Innovation and Product Development at Wharton. Lego has managed to wring sustainability by adopting the Lean startup approach. His book Brick by Brick is a must read.). Switch has a lot of work to do. Fingers crossed!

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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., Journal of Product Innovation Management, 31(3), 616–635.