LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Third, hardware entrepreneurs in some cities can now access a sophisticated supporting infrastructure, including a sizable ecosystem of hardware “studios,” incubators, accelerators, and service-providers that has grown up to abet start-ups in dozens of cities from Austin to Providence to Miami.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. Based on better customer retention alone, management estimates this innovation has boosted annual revenues by $10 to $20 million. But once IDEO grew to hundreds of Palo Alto employees, even Kelley couldn’t sustain the intimacy.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

They are taken to school on how to create innovation clusters in their geographies, and too often they come away with surface-level solutions: bring in venture capitalists, create incubators, provide incentives for universities and labs to commercialize their technologies, build a robust IP system, establish liaison offices in Silicon Valley.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

PM David Cameron , November 20, 2013. So it is with high growth firms: studies of these firms show that their growth occurs in sudden, largely unforeseeable spurts for reasons ranging from market shifts, buyouts, recapitalizations, new management and sometimes luck. “Small business is the backbone of our economy.”

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Policies Incubator Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Apple fuses technology with design. An internal incubator. “The time we spent incubating in Google X was really essential,” Corrado says. “We could advance the core technology without being tied to a particular product. ” The result of that incubation period was an actual product.

Innovation 8

Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing Engineering 8