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Best Practices for Strengthening University-Industry Partnerships

Yet2

These insights stem from his time researching university technology transfer offices in the 1990’s to his current role as head of yet2. Industry’s needs must align with universities’ technical capabilities and their technologies’ stages of development. The 4 key takeaways in his address were: 1.

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The cost of innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

Worse, some of these, Kodak in particular, were potential leaders in innovative technologies or business models but "stuck to their knitting" and lost market share and profits. What can be expensive is new product development - that is, taking a new idea and running it through a product development process and then launching it in the market.

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8 best project management tools

mjvinnovation

A company specialized in product development for software developers and managers. The key feature of Bitrix24 is that it allows the allocation of the estimated workload for each participant in a given project, generating a comparison between the estimated hours and the work performed.

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Overcome resistance and capture growth in the Financial Services Industry

Innovation 360 Group

In comparison to almost all other industries, the financial services industry is one of the least supportive of change (we call it adaptability), especially on one key dimension – a supportive culture for innovation. Horizon Two (H2) your adjacent business arena where innovation is driven by new uses of existing technology and ideas.

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Creativity Must Guide the Data-Driven Design Process

Boxes and Arrows

New digital technologies allow us to easily measure almost anything, and apps, social media platforms, websites, and email programs come with built-in tools to track data. Product development and design is a cyclical process. Collecting data about design is easy in the digital world. Those bad numbers?

Data 101
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Is it novel?

Mike Shipulski

Novel work is work that creates difference, and that difference can be defined only in comparison with the state-of-the-art (what is, or the baseline system). Create a block diagram of your business model, your most successful product and the service that defines your brand. Start with a functional analysis of your state-of-the-art.

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The 10 Reasons People Buy New Products

New Markets Advisors

In 2018, financial technology startups (fintechs) raised $12.4B By comparison, Yelp, which offers customers an easy way to make reservations straight from the site they’re already using to check out restaurant reviews, has less than 5% market share. There can be big value for companies that help lower that hurdle. in funding ?—?43%