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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.infoq.com/articles/dutch-railway-scrum. This happened to us at SuperMac when our sales skyrocketed.

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How China Creates the Strongest Innovation System

The BMI Lab Blog

Next-generation information technology. The growing percentage of funds allocated to technology innovation clearly shows China's ambition on innovation leadership (source: Prof. Dr. HAN, Zheng , Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Tongji University Shanghai). New materials and composites.

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The rise and rise of Entrepreneurs

Matthew Griffin

Today technology and digital have lowered the bar to entry and the number of people around the world starting companies has risen ten fold to 100 million and the number of patent applications has risen six fold.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

New generations, societal change, sustainable goals and disruptive technology require organizations to be much more flexible, self-reinventing organisms that don’t fit above-mentioned design principles. They require openness, transparency, adaptability, co-creation, self-management and responsiveness. Academic Relevance.

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The secrets behind building a Unicorn

Matthew Griffin

Today it’s unlikely you’ll go more than half an hour without bumping into a Unicorn or their close cousin the Super Unicorn – a Venture Capitalist term for startups that have soared to $1 Billion to $100 Billion valuations within five years of opening their doors. Their investors invested in people – technology can be fixed.

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The Ambidextrous Organization

Open Innovation EU

In december I reached out to both Alexander Osterwalder and John Bessant and asked them what is the most important organizational skill for engaging continuously with innovation. Their answers were almost the same: Osterwalder mentioned that every board should consist of both a Chief Executive Office and a Chief Entrepreneurship Officer.

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Have the Banks already been Disrupted?

Matthew Griffin

Organisations need to review and adapt their technology, culture and business practises and become ‘Future Fit’. On the other hand you have a ground swell of tens of thousands of increasingly well funded Fintech Entrepreneurs whose VC funding last year increased 127% to $12.5 Click and Connect with the Author: LinkedIn. mgriffin_uk. +44