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The Problems With Incubators, and How to Solve Them

Harvard Business Review

This knowledge gap, I have come to believe, is best filled by savvy incubators. However, there are over 7,500 business incubators around the world. The first business incubator in the U.S. opened in 1959 and is still operating. Most of them fail. Well, it isn''t. Success is More Than Funding.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow. For good reason: these firms are diverse, resilient, and geographically distributed engines of innovation. It’s that the U.S. based companies.

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The Core Incompetencies of the Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Strangely, most CEOs seem resigned to this fact, since few, if any, have tackled the challenge of innovation with the sort of zeal and persistence they’ve devoted to the pursuit of operational efficiency. Imagine, if you will, a car engine so woefully inefficient that only 13% of the gas it consumes actually combusts.