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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

They point out that since 2014, only four types of innovation and that are all related to digital, have grown increasingly in importance in their pursuit by companies. So the need to innovate comes from digital as the source. It will fundamentally change the type of resources innovation requires.

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Choosing your direction of travel

Paul Hobcraft

For instance, earlier engagement with governments, with research institutes, publishing new findings in more open ways, less restrictive on a sharing data all might allow the communities to search for a different model of discovery to commercialization. The productivity release and efficiency gains radically alter the cost structures.

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Why platforms and ecosystems matter for innovators

Jeffrey Phillips

Fast forward a few decades into the 1950s, as a nation wide platform (interstate highway system) and dependable ecosystem partners (gas stations, mechanics, financing for automotive purchases, government regulations and oversight) become more important. Notice however, that the core technology (the car itself) doesn't change all that much.

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Fostering Innovation with Technological Solutions – Part 1

Wazoku

Part two, will take a much more tactical drill down into the growing market of innovation management solutions and who to watch out for, as well as the wider innovation ecosystem and harnessing the crowd to best effect. Start with the end in mind and try and determine what your organisations innovation objectives and strategy are.

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

A well-suited way to govern this approach is to manage a portfolio of initiatives. Incremental innovation : Even in highly mature industries, such as automotive, experimentation gains ever more importance. In particular for industrial products this, in turn, has been stimulated by maturing 3D printing technologies.