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The Importance Of Corporate Venturing During Covid-19

The Horizons Tracker

These co-investment funds can test the market validity of discoveries, with companies working alongside scientists to do so. The existing European financial SME instruments for scientific startups needs to be adapted and work more effectively with corporate venture funds so that small experiments in selected regions are supported.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. If you remove the barriers, then you don''t need to incentivize entrepreneurs to commit their natural act. Even better. Not" is not a typo. have spread like wildfire.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. Balance: the mix of different types of innova­tion (product, service, pricing, distribution, operations, etc.);