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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: techcrunch.com/2014/05/15/billguard-android/. Source: leanstartup.co/how-one-fitech-company-used-lean-startup-in-a-regulated-industry/.

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#welovestartups: Oracle startups program

Innovation Excellence

For 5 years, Dominique has been managing startups programs, and he launched in 2014 a structured program to engage volunteers in helping startup grow. Currently looking after Oracle France corporate responsibility, Dominique van Deth always thought that companies could have a significant impact on Society. Continue reading →

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Hackathons—HR’s best friend

hackerearth

To add to their cup of woes, they have “mundane” tasks—finding top quality hires, retaining them, ensuring there are no pains areas in employee engagement, staving off all kinds of legal hassles—which require them to be the go-to person while being innovative, proactive, and brimming with energy. Apparently, this is possible.

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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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Banks: Too large to fail, easy to Disrupt

Matthew Griffin

Technology is having a democratising effect on Entrepreneurship – it’s lowered the bar to entry and it’s shifted the power away from the corporations and into the hands of the individual. In todays digitally connected world I’m increasingly seeing that organisations that are blinkered by old 20th Century assumptions die by them.

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The Innovation-Driven Disruption of the Automotive Value Chain (Part 2)

Corporate Innovation

Figure 1 shows the top 20 R&D spenders in 2014, based on data compiled by PwC, where we see (in red) that six of the top 20 companies are incumbent automotive OEMs. Figure 1: Top 20 corporate R&D spenders in 2014. Figure 2: PwC survey results of the top 20 most innovative companies in 2014. Volkswagen. Tesla Motors.

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The Innovation-Driven Disruption of the Automotive Value Chain (Part 2)

Corporate Innovation

Figure 1 shows the top 20 R&D spenders in 2014, based on data compiled by PwC, where we see (in red) that six of the top 20 companies are incumbent automotive OEMs. Figure 1: Top 20 corporate R&D spenders in 2014. Figure 2: PwC survey results of the top 20 most innovative companies in 2014. Volkswagen. Tesla Motors.