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The Importance Of Corporate Venturing During Covid-19

The Horizons Tracker

The paper highlights how corporate venturing is a rapidly expanding endeavor, and corporate investments in startups have grown from 980 in 2013 to 3,232 per year today. Maintaining an innovation agenda is paramount for the long-term survival of organizations,” the researchers say. ” Making it work.

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How Corporate Venturing Can Help Startups Overcome The Valley Of Death

The Horizons Tracker

Each year INSEAD produce a global innovation index, which chronicles the abilities of various countries around the world to support the creation of innovation. The paper highlights how corporate venturing is a rapidly expanding endeavor, and corporate investments in startups have grown from 980 in 2013 to 3,232 per year today.

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How Watson Changed IBM

Harvard Business Review

They knew the answer was not by relying on traditional internal processes and practices for R&D and innovation. IBM, a company with a long and successful tradition of internally-focused R&D activities, is adapting to this new world of creating platforms and enabling open innovation. So how does it work?

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Startup Accelerators Have Become More Popular in Emerging Markets — and They’re Working

Harvard Business Review

When we began collecting data in 2013 to explore differences between startup acceleration in emerging markets and in high-income countries, we expected stark differences. It’s not all about venture funding. 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets. Related Video. Think about consumers' jobs-to-be-done.

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Health Care Becomes Entrepreneurial (Finally)

Harvard Business Review

Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. According to a recent Rock Health report , venture funding of digital health companies exceeded $1.9 billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012. Entrepreneurship Health Innovation'

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How Advanced Analytics Is Changing B2B Selling

Harvard Business Review

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. Any product that requires some expertise to use is a candidate for analytics innovation.

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Publishing Is Not Dying

Harvard Business Review

Vox Media, a venture-funded publishing start-up, recently lured Ezra Klein away from the Washington Post. Even The New York Times —which, as I’ve noted , has not run its business well— achieved 8% net margins in 2013—not great, but not exactly a tragedy either. These examples are not mere exceptions, but part of a growing trend.