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What Makes Switzerland a Leader in Innovation?

IdeaScale

Switzerland is a global leader due to their level of scientific knowledge and their ability to launch technologies into consumables for the market. There were 873 patent license applications per million of inhabitants in Switzerland back in the year 2015. Switzerland has some world class R&D establishments. Educated workers.

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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

Is innovation a superfluous fad that just won’t go away, or is learning how to be innovative crucial for futureproofing an enterprise? In 2014 Facebook purchased WhatsApp for $19 billion, and it is now on target to hit one billion active users by the end of 2015. So which one is it? Picture Perfect?

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

Quinn & Cameron argued that organization can be defined by their cultures and introduced their Competencies Values Framework. 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.

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Questions for the 4th Industrial Age

Innovation Excellence

Klaus Schwab said that we must develop a comprehensive and globally shared view of how technology is affecting our lives and reshaping our economic, social, cultural, and human environments. Structure can be an enabler or an impediment to progress and a full OD review will be needed to facilitate such changes.

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Developing a new framework for risk and innovation.

Paul Hobcraft

Interestingly, the pace of innovation stands among the top three risks in 2015 and tops along with regulatory risk, the list foreseen in 2018. With technology disruption, business model disruption and growing competition, social and customer engagement challenges the ability to manage innovation is growing as a concern and in risk management.

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Developing a new framework for risk and innovation.

Paul Hobcraft

Interestingly, the pace of innovation stands among the top three risks in 2015 and tops along with regulatory risk, the list foreseen in 2018. With technology disruption, business model disruption and growing competition, social and customer engagement challenges the ability to manage innovation is growing as a concern and in risk management.

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Successfully shaping Digital Transformation

ITONICS

Companies, regardless of whether they are a start-up, an SME or a large corporation, need to address the following questions: How to start? How to develop a clear strategy in the context of digital transformation? How to successfully implement new business models? How to achieve a sustainable digital transformation?