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Low-Carbon Policies May Harm Those Unable To Cope With Short-Term Costs

The Horizons Tracker

While there is growing public support for such measures, a new study from the University of Cambridge reminds us that the impact may be significant on poorer families and small businesses, who may be less able to cope with short-term cost increases. “There is no one-size-fits-all solution,” the researchers conclude.

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Pay For Performance Schemes Can Harm Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

While such an approach certainly has its merits, research from Bocconi University highlights how it could also harm innovation. This is because pay-for-performance schemes can often encourage a short-term and quantitative approach to assessing work. Firstly, innovators became far more goal-oriented. Put to the test.

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How Big Companies Can (and do) Innovate Like a Start-Up

Leading Blog

T HE INNOVATION WE PRIZE at successful start-ups is a mindset that is brought into the start-up and not necessarily the inherent quality of every start-up. Innovation isn’t something that just happens; we create the conditions for it. Big organizations can innovate like small start-ups. Creating an Innovation Strategy.

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Innovation Relies Upon Cooperation With External Partners

The Horizons Tracker

The last decade has seen a gradual rise in the practice of open innovation, such that recent data suggested nearly all organizations engage in at least some form of it. The researchers compiled survey data from 2015 and 2018, with the surveys measuring innovation activity in manufacturing companies across Russia.

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Financial Reporting Can Harm Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

The challenges involved in measuring innovation are legion, and this can be especially challenging in public companies that have reporting requirements. New research from The Business School shows that relaxation in reporting frequency would help the long-term thinking that is so important for innovation to thrive.

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How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations than in Startups

Leading Blog

Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation. Optimizing innovation: Improving the past.

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Innovation Conversations with Dimension, Time, Cost

Mike Cardus

Identify ways to create more robust conversations amongst your team, break stuckness in thinking, and continue developing conversations that will support the emergence of new ideas and innovation inside your team or group. I built this out on Mural; you can download the Innovation DTC operator Mural template here. Short time.

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