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50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Open Innovation EU

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.businessinsider.com/top-10-ways-entrepreneurs-pivot-a-lean-startup-2011-9?IR=T.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2011 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2011 more…. Human-Centered Design (IDEO). Updated Model of Design Thinking. Design Thinking Process (Stanford). Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2011 more…. Design Competitions. Design for Six Sigma (Idov).

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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. That brings us to entrepreneurial thinking. Behind deep cognitive structures are deep beliefs.”

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The Founder, Innovation On Film

Gregg Fraley

The Founder , starring Michael Keaton as McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc , is the best film about innovation since Moneyball in 2011. Here’s that specific clip: The sequence of events that describe the McDonald’s brothers story is a case study in American entrepreneurship. All this done 40 years before Design Thinking!

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How China Creates the Strongest Innovation System

The BMI Lab Blog

Dr. HAN, Zheng , Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Tongji University Shanghai). Furthermore, BYD prefers to test every design in the market, rather than attempt to perfect a model before its launch. The best part of this strategy is that risk is reduced, since the company relies on successful designs to adapt their own.

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The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship

Econic

In 2011, I read absolutely everything I could on the science of mind, how we make decisions, how we form habits, how we summon the courage and do what we need to do to achieve great things in life. I have always believed that the human brain is the most marvelous tool in the known universe. So I decided to take a Hail Mary.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. Structures are no longer of primary focus in design organizations. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar. It enhances productivity.