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12 Types of Innovation You Should Know in 2021

IdeaScale

The paradigm is that companies cannot afford to rely strictly on their own internal methods of innovation, but can buy or license processes or inventions from other companies. This helps to further their goals while also providing the opportunity to license or use joint ventures to share their under-utilized technology or processes.

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Connecting innovating value comes from Ecosystem thinking

Paul Hobcraft

We are witnessing a very radical change, driven by technology, increasingly disrupting and breaking down past traditional boundaries, partly built to defend positions so as to achieve economic scale. These are: The constant exponential of technology and its power to change is forcing up to change.

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Building Capacity for Breakthrough Innovation

Innov8rs

They represent a radical departure from existing products, services, or processes, paving the way for new markets, industries, and value networks. It contrasts sharply with incremental innovation, which refers to minor improvements or upgrades to existing offerings. Radical innovation is full of surprises.

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Has innovation changed over the last ten years?

Paul Hobcraft

Today, innovation is seen as an open process, where organizations leverage external sources of knowledge, ideas, and feedback to enhance their innovation performance 1. Open innovation is the practice of sharing and using external and internal ideas to create value 2.

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8 Types of Innovation in Business: A Comprehensive Guide

Qmarkets

Razors have undergone incremental innovations over time Source: The Hustle Incremental innovations may not make headlines, but they’re the steady pulses that keep businesses competitive and responsive to market demands. Marketing Innovation Another type of innovation in business is marketing innovation.

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Knowing Your Innovation Pathway Curve – A methodology

Paul Hobcraft

Firstly you have to ask what you are trying to achieve, is it incremental innovation, distinctive, disruptive or even radical? Getting a thorough understanding of what it takes to move up this learning curve to achieve the different types of innovation takes time. So we have five innovation pathway curves to scale.

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Tackling Societal Challenges through innovation ecosystem application

Paul Hobcraft

Many are avoiding the need to stare hard into the future as we are not re-equipping everyone with skills that combine inventiveness, innovation and creativity that contribute to their communities, we have got stuck in the “me” A reality of depletion in many of our essential resources is racing towards us and it is not a pretty sight.