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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

It’s an argument that Haas Business School’s Henry Chesborough wholly agrees with, and outlines the case for a more open way of innovating as the solution to this productivity paradox in his latest book, Open Innovation Results. Innovation dissemination , which is the movement of these ideas and technologies into mainstream usage.

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Is America Losing Its Edge in Clean-Energy Tech?

Harvard Business Review

This healthy, innovative sector holds out vast promise, but missteps now could cost the United States its lead. has underwritten much of the technological innovation behind clean energy's progress. has underwritten much of the technological innovation behind clean energy's progress. The clean-energy field is evolving rapidly.

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Lean Doesn’t Always Create the Best Products

Harvard Business Review

The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment. They expect quality, and use it both as a selection criteria for purchase and as a constraint for sustained use. When process is a hammer, the risk is that everything becomes a nail.