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How can academics ensure their work has impact?

IdeaSpies

But due to limitations in funding or resources, it’s often necessary to bring in an industry partner to help validate, scale-up and commercialise a discovery. Take Bell Labs, for example, an industrial research and development (R&D) company, now owned by Nokia but originally founded by Alexander Graham Bell in the late-1800s.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

Tim Kastelle

Research confirms: development of exploration in parallel to exploitation capabilities proves to be mandatory for established companies in order to compete successfully and sustainably. One way for established organizations to strengthen exploration is by developing internal capabilities in order to overcome their inherent inertia.

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Overcome resistance and capture growth in the Financial Services Industry

Innovation 360 Group

Our digital capabilities have been at the forefront due to the increase in the level of acceptance of digital and virtual interaction with our customers and their relative experience across business lines and geographies. Often agile development initiatives are not ‘agile’ at all. Perhaps the risk isn’t lower after all.

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Hackathons—HR’s best friend

hackerearth

The talent management and performance review processes are certainly not what we’d refer to as all in a day’s work. The event held in San Francisco in 2014 drew over 100 professionals collaborated to come up with solutions to improve employee engagement. Wipro held an internal hackathon for its employees in June 2014.

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

Accelerating dynamics and pace of disruption in most industries, in particular triggered by the pervasion of new technologies, lead to decreasing life times of existing business models. But even participating in other firms’ ecosystems can be highly attractive, as demonstrated by e.g. several app developers.

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Innovation Networks – Needed Now More Than Ever

The Inovo Group

“This new mode of organization—a ‘network of teams’ with a high degree of empowerment, strong communication, and rapid information flow—is now sweeping businesses and governments around the world.” – Gen. New technologies, tools and systems make innovation networks more possible and more influential than ever.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

50 what-if questions to reimagine the future We have handpicked a selection of trends & shifts in technology to help you come up with more relevant business ideas. What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? More ambitious?