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An Innovation Lexicon

IdeaScale

Let’s start with a general definition that states “Innovation is something new and useful ” incorporates both the concepts of novelty and value. The way we think about innovation has changed over time. Today when some people talk about innovation they mean inventing or adopting new technology.

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Open innovation for social change?—?OECD’s global challenge

Be-novative

Open innovation for social change?—?OECD’s OECD’s global challenge Open innovation is combining internal and external ideas to advance technology, product development, and so much more?—?including including social good. Why crowdsource for social change? The Collective Genius was unleashed.

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Intrapreneurs

eZassi

Invest in Intrapreneurs – Innovation Management Supports Your Organization’s Greatest Change Makers Intrapreneurs are those important team members with the optimism, intellect, initiative, and discipline to champion bright ideas and drive new project pipelines, establishing innovative change across the business.

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Questions about Innovation

InnovationTraining.org

How can innovation be measured and assessed? What role does technology play in innovation? How can innovation be managed and directed in an organization? How does innovation differ from creativity, and how do the two relate to each other? How does innovation relate to entrepreneurship?

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The Emerging Impact Entrepreneur

Innovators Alliance

The business paradigm is shifting with an increased focus on ‘impact’ entrepreneurship. Impact entrepreneurs consciously create positive change in the world. Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, released to open sourcing all Tesla’s patents for creating electric vehicles to support efforts to fight climate change. Have you noticed?

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Extend your market making more profit with Social Innovations

Innovation 360

Joseph Schumpeter , the guru of innovation, addressed the process of innovation with his theory of creative destruction and his definition of entrepreneurs as people who combined existing elements in new ways to create a new product or service. There is also a new book published on the subject, Social Innovation, Inc.

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Adaptive Strategy Matrix [Infographic]: exploration vs. exploitation?

Open Innovation EU

The decision to invest in (mainly short-term oriented) exploitation or to invest in (mainly long-term oriented) exploration is one of the key concepts of management and often referred to as ambidexterity. External pressure will force them to change their strategy to exploitation. Focus on social innovation and ideation.