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How Big Companies Should Innovate

Harvard Business Review

In his seminal work, The Innovator's Dilemma , Clayton Christensen made the point that for disruptive innovations to be pursued effectively, they require autonomous business units. If the antibodies already exist within your organization to destroy new endeavors, you need to go outside of the organization to overcome them.

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Creating a Future for (American) Cleantech

Harvard Business Review

These technologies can be screened for their inherent disruptive potential — that is, their ability to transform existing markets or create new ones by radically simplifying, decentralizing, and lowering the cost of existing solutions. The ARPA-E program is a great first step in this direction.