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The rise and rise of Entrepreneurs

Matthew Griffin

When I talk to clients about disruption and how the future is already fundamentally changing the paradigms of business I talk to them about the ants but I get them to imagine the people are all Entrepreneurs with a common purpose to create the next big business or industry. Disruption is now closer to your door than it’s ever been before.

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Eliminating Uncertainty: How to Manage Innovation Risk in 3 Easy Steps

Qmarkets

Afterall, innovation often means abandoning an old, well-established practice in favour of something potentially greater, but less predictable. Business leaders are thus faced with a challenge – discovering a way to achieve disruptive innovation whilst minimizing potential dangers to their investment.

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What is innovation? 15 experts share their innovation definition

Idea to Value

Nick is the chief editor of Idea to Value and also the CEO & Founder of Improvides Innovation Consulting. He was voted one of the world’s top innovation bloggers for 2014 and is a leader in thought leadership on the science of improving creativity. What mistake do companies often make when they talk about innovation?

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

In the course of this first month of 2016, I was asked a couple of times what my prospects are for the year ahead when it comes to key innovtion issues. Hence, I gave it some thought, starting by revisting an earlier reflection: Beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come.

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Have the Banks already been Disrupted?

Matthew Griffin

“Banks were once the corner stone of the community but today their industry is being disrupted and disintermediated. On the one hand you have a growing apathy and disenchantment towards the banks which of course hasn’t been helped by the recent LIBOR, PPI, Forex or Bank Charge scandals. No, I just can’t be bothered. Conclusion.

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

Open Innovation EU

Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).

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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

This Microsoft-spawned company started as a thought at the 2010 TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon. SlickLogin is an innovative login solution that uses sound-based passwords to access password-protected sites and areas. Another TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon production, the company was acquired by Google in 2014. Its origins?