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Innovation Department Best Practices: A Talk with Peter Berger

IdeaScale

The Components of a Productive Innovation Department. Berger suggests three critical components for building an innovation department: An outsider An insider who is known as a bit of a maverick A “snowplow” person whose job is to move obstacles out of the way so innovation can progress.

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Finding a Viable Market – Quantifying the True Opportunity for Your Innovation

Taivara

Quantifying the True Opportunity for Your Innovation. Download the White Paper. Time and again we see both start-up founders and major corporations invest huge amounts of time and money in a product, only to find that there isn’t an adequate market for it or that it’s way too difficult to compete.

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Feeling the Pain – Articulating the Problem your Business Solves

Taivara

Articulating the Problem your Product or Business Solves. Download the White Paper. So let us help you understand the problems you’re solving with your new startup, product, or business. Click on the button below to download our free white paper, Feeling the Pain. Download the White Paper.

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How to Sort and Score Innovation Ideas

IdeaScale

A disciplined approach to evaluating innovation ideas is necessary. Companies have to move forward in an era of rapid technological change, and innovations are often the key to staying ahead of the competition by developing new products, processes, and business models.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

This white paper has been originally published to the SSRN: Spruijt, Jan, Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: Why Entrepreneurship Can Hardly Be Taught (May 17, 2017). In the Schumpetarian view, opportunities arise from the internal willingness to change the industry. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 31(3), 616–635.