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Why Corporations Need “Coopetition” with Startups

KindlingApp

Startup swami Eric Ries’ essential book The Lean Startup defines a startup as “a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty”, which implies an essential element of innovation. When seen through this lens, the disrupting startup is not the enemy.

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Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

It’s even worse if an innovation program is truly disruptive, with the potential to cannibalize the existing business. Yet if the company’s immune system rejects this type of innovation, some competitors may claim that disruptive territory for itself. This type of program may even mean short-term losses for the core business.

Company 52
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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

And for that reason it has become an integral criteria in many prescriptive regulations for (higher) education and in increasing numbers also explicitly and implicitly part of curricula (Saavedra & Opfer, 2012). These two extremes – and everything in between – have been topic of discussion ever since. Corporate entrepreneurship.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

find new ideas and examples to disrupt your industry. Some of the most notable and disruptive inventions of tomorrow will require a paradigmatic change in the way we interpret things today, in the way we perform tasks, in the technologies and resources we have access to. What if all your employees were freelancers?

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

find new ideas and examples to disrupt your industry. Some of the most notable and disruptive inventions of tomorrow will require a paradigmatic change in the way we interpret things today, in the way we perform tasks, in the technologies and resources we have access to. What if all your employees were freelancers?

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

Even though the Mac business was picking up, it was only in 2001, with the release of the iPOD (now retired) disrupting the digital music market, did Apple start soaring. Disruption just wasn’t working for the Billund-based company. Lego has managed to wring sustainability by adopting the Lean startup approach. Source: [link].

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Guest Blog – Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

It’s even worse if an innovation program is truly disruptive, with the potential to cannibalize the existing business. Yet if the company’s immune system rejects this type of innovation, some competitors may claim that disruptive territory for itself. This type of program may even mean short-term losses for the core business.

Company 40