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The Innovative Mentor

IdeaScale

Mentors can also encourage innovators to look inside themselves, to understand themselves as leaders or project champions. When is it time to stick to an idea, and when is it time to listen to others and change course? Innovators face a wide mix of business strategy and interpersonal challenges on their road to success.

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Awaken Your Inner Venture Capitalist

IdeaScale

Many times, venture capitalist initially invests in a start-up with a specific solution and business model, but in the course of growing the company and taking products to market, they and the start-up’s founders discover that the market potential is not nearly as strong as they had predicted. Many VCs play a very active role on the board.

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

Open Innovation EU

Practice of Creativity: can be taught using creative techniques and methods such as design thinking (Neck et al., Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education, 1, 104–126. Practice of Empathy: can be taught using creative research methods. Although the latter are widely covered in literature (Bacigalupo et al., Johnson, D.,