Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

By Tim Kippley: Jeff Bezos, one of the planet’s greatest innovators, once said that: “You need a culture that high-fives small and innovative ideas and senior executives [that] encourage ideas.” ” The Value of Innovation at Geneca. I have long felt that companies can’t survive without innovating.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 21, 2021

Understanding how to tap your own entrepreneurial superpowers is the premise of The Entrepreneur’s Faces: How Makers, Visionaries and Outsiders Succeed , a new book by Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp. The uplifting stories of ten unique entrepreneurs form an actionable template for personal and professional growth. They’re prolific.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Open-book Learning-by-Doing 110

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 13, 2019

Ordinarily, incubators, accelerators and other startup support services should provide such networking opportunities, but recent research from Harvard Business School suggests they may be selling entrepreneurs short. Spreading the net. It suggests that collaboration diminishes as a function of distance. Spreading wings.

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Incubator Entrepreneur Human Capital Participative 75

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The mentoring relationship entrepreneurs are able to foster is often crucial to the success of their business, and the first engagement with their mentor can often be crucial in establishing the groundwork for the relationship. The researchers explored initial interactions between entrepreneurs and potential mentors.

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Mentor Entrepreneur Incubator Long-term 64

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 12, 2019

There has long been concern across the EU about the relatively poor performance of European countries in terms of innovation and entrepreneurship. In a way, scientific entrepreneurs have to learn to think in a very different way in order to grow their business and pitch it to investors.

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Human Capital Incubator Entrepreneur Long-term 59

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. Are we all entrepreneurs now? in 1985 to just 5.3% A decline in disruption.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Far from the high-tech jobs of startup lore, many of the new entrepreneurs were working for themselves in low-skill trades that did little to mask the impression that policies aimed at boosting entrepreneurship and economic growth were in reality more designed to mask shocking unemployment statistics. .” Rural innovation.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

That’s largely the ethos behind accelerators such as Entrepreneur First, who back exceptional people and help them turn their intellect into marketable products and successful businesses. ” Entrepreneurial team formation. Selecting the team.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Big businesses struggling in an era of rapid transformation can learn a lot from the experiences of social entrepreneurs finding and adapting innovative solutions in difficult contexts. WISH and WISE. Empower Bottom-up Solutions. “Maybe what you think is the best idea you’ve ever had actually isn’t.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

New tools, resources, and intermediaries are allowing a new generation of serious entrepreneurs to begin to bridge the worlds of hacker space and industry. Just as with software 15 years ago, start-up manufacturing is beginning to graduate to the bigger time. ” The rise of hardware startups still has the feel of an insurgency.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

When a new business idea is incubated and executed successfully, cloners naturally emerge and imitate. In traditional investing philosophy, the most innovative firms are potentially the most profitable. So, from business books to business schools and corporate boards, everyone is talking about innovation.

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Innovation Incubator Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

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Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We recently attended the World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit 2011 in Mumbai, where we moderated several panels and workshops on the topic of innovation. The experience gave us some insights into a unique approach to innovation called jugaad , which entrepreneurs and enterprises are practicing in complex emerging markets like India.

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Innovation Incubator Banking Hypercompetition 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs. They are certainly important components, but they are not enough.

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Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Social entrepreneurship has evolved a great deal since the late 1980s, when pioneers like City Year 's Alan Khazei and Teach for America 's Wendy Kopp took great risks to prove that innovative organizations could produce transformative social change. Take, for example, the issue of economic development.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

My fellow HBR blogger Bill Taylor recently made a pitch for all of us to stop using the word “innovation” in 2014. What can be done, in the spirit of Bill’s admonishment, is to stop getting tangled up in all of the variations, nuances, tools, techniques, models, frameworks, and paradigms of innovation. Second, demystify the process.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Innovation, in word and deed, has been a golden calf of the business world for decades. Now the concept has taken on a second life in the social sector, where a tougher than tough economy has made "innovation" the theoretical one-size fits all answer for every challenge, with little discussion about the associated costs and challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. In this way, TFA, like all organizations, develops particular competencies through the careers of its members. The answer appears to be yes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

While it's written from my perspective, he was central to the development of the idea. We would examine my stalled plans in order to better understand how people make progress, and more specifically, what leads us to innovate. I've never published a book before, but I have incubated businesses. How's your book launch coming?"

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

Many politicians and commentators mention two critical factors in accomplishing this: increasing innovative capacity and reducing bureaucracy. The data in the graph above demonstrate the link between innovation, bureaucracy, and uncertainty. But Greece cannot stop there. National competitiveness Economics & Society Europe'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

It’s a common question thrown at me by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or the more cynically minded corporate leaders. That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I call this the Six+Six Model for entrepreneurship ecosystem development. In fact, in developing countries no tech and low tech startups actually usually create more jobs than high tech startups (think Starbucks or IKEA vs Google or Apple). While the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Each year, twenty million babies worldwide are born prematurely or with a low birth weight, and four million of them die, most in developing nations. Unfortunately, current options for warming babies in developing nations are either expensive or unsafe. In 2011, Embrace piloted the product in India, where 1.2

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

A result that is exacerbated by the simultaneous decrease in the cost of innovation and the rise of new approaches, like Y Combinator's systematic incubation factory, Kickstarter's crowd-funding platform, and super angels like Ron Conway. Expect to see continued growth among incubators that support fast-cycle iteration.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

What’s driving companies to relocate near urban universities is the changing role of innovation within the private sector as firms are increasingly relying on external sources to support technology development. In the past, many large companies tended to innovate in isolation. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

A result that is exacerbated by the simultaneous decrease in the cost of innovation and the rise of new approaches, like Y Combinator's systematic incubation factory, Kickstarter's crowd-funding platform, and super angels like Ron Conway. Expect to see continued growth among incubators that support fast-cycle iteration.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Entrepreneurship is conflated with innovation. Davos leaders who recognize that entrepreneurship is distinct from self-employment and small business, often fall into the trap of equating entrepreneurship with innovation and, by default, technology. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Entrepreneurship ecosystems are not checklists.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Fatigue may be setting in for some Western investors’ interest in African innovation, particularly those that have yet to reap rewards to brag about. In 2014 we described what Western investors want from African entrepreneurs. We recently interviewed 100 entrepreneurs to find out which ventures are most likely to thrive.

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Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. They assume that there are no counter-trends or embryonic developments. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs.

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Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." million developers to contribute to 260,000 projects.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Now, well over a decade later, as developing-economy competitors take the lead, U.S. will need radical and disruptive innovation to reinvent its clean-tech economy. Ultimately, these innovations can trickle up to the top of the pyramid, presenting enormous profit opportunities through reverse innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

For entrepreneurs in developing nations where experienced institutional investors are scarce and starting companies is very challenging, the impact of these latent forces becomes hugely vital. While these two firms have world-class intellectual properties, I think their true innovation is in the pricing model around their businesses.

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Licensing Software Automotive Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Inclusive growth has become the economic development mantra for both Indian politicians and CEOs in recent months. In the process, these senior execs developed their insights into the needs and wants of rural consumers through interaction, discussion and research.

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