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Innovation Department Best Practices: A Talk with Peter Berger

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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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How to Sort and Score Innovation Ideas

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Winning innovations are those that bring together viability, feasibility, and desirability , but it’s not always easy to pick these out from a large batch of ideas. Here are some popular methods to sort and score innovation ideas, and ways you can use innovation management software to manage those methods.

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

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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). This white paper is nothing more than my two cents on teaching entrepreneurship and bringing up the topic of paradoxes in entrepreneurial. Berends, H.,