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Innovation Project Governance Do's & Don'ts

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Despite its importance, innovation project governance is often handled ineffectively, slowing down rather than driving innovation. Innovation project governance is a decision-making discipline where organizational leaders decide which ideas to pursue, how to allocate the innovation budget, and how to assign resources.

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Innovation comes in different forms and problems, all requiring financial support.

Paul Hobcraft

Financing game-changing investments, replacing something existing or simply providing something new have tough financial questions always to be answered. So far, we are doing a poor job of this as markets, solutions, opinions, and financial support are all highly fragmented. To achieve this, access to finance becomes essential.

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Accelerating Clean Energy Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

This realization and reality demand that all global governments quickly increase and reprioritise their spending on research and development and demonstrate and deploy clean energy technologies – putting them at the core of energy and climate policy. For advanced batteries, this pathway to commercialisation is being funded by capital markets.

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Global Prosperity in 2023: Our plan for impact

Christensen Institute

Since the book’s release, members of the Global Prosperity team have presented our ideas on market-creating innovations (MCI) in more than 30 countries , developed an MCI bootcamp , and written numerous articles on the critical role of market-creating innovations in igniting prosperity globally. Financing market-creating innovations.

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What does the exit of some multinationals from Africa signal for its prosperity?

Christensen Institute

In 2020, Standard Chartered and Barclays took steps to reduce their presence in the African market. While these companies appear to have a valid premise for exiting these markets, a question to ask is: what do these exits signal for the attainment of prosperity in Africa? Prosperity can be achieved with market-creating innovations.

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Constructing the innovation mandate

Paul Hobcraft

We need to understand successful innovation actually touches all aspects of a business, by contributing to improving business processes, identifying new, often imaginative, ways to reduce costs, building out existing business models into new directions and value and discovering new ways and positioning into markets.

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Exploring the Global Smart Cities Market: Software Opportunities

Tullio Siragusa

Exploring the Global Smart Cities Market: Software Opportunities According to recent market research reports, the global smart cities market is expected to reach a size of over $2 trillion by 2026, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 10%. Let’s explore the market opportunities by categories and regions.