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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Its market cap is over $2 trillion. Even more alarming, almost every new business it launched failed: e-books, mobile phones, search engines, music; it was one dramatic dud after another. In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. You know this company.

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Are SMEs The Overlooked Engines Of Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, the European Commission regards them as the engine of the European economy. Despite this importance, they’re an often overlooked group, as they’re not considered sufficiently high growth to attract the wide range of VC-led support that fuels accelerators, incubators, and corporate venturing.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. 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.

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What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like

Harvard Business Review

There is no burden on those who proposed a new idea or technology to talk to customers, build minimal viable products, test hypotheses or understand the barriers to deployment. This prioritization process has to start before any new idea reaches engineering. As the head of the U.S.

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Why Today’s Corporate Research Centers Need to Be in Cities

Harvard Business Review

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives. Marketing plays a catalyst role, providing growth funding.