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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo. If I read your definition correctly, you are limiting game-changers to positive developments or innovations.

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Creating a Future for (American) Cleantech

Harvard Business Review

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. Making big bets on emerging technologies and uncertain markets is never a straightforward proposition; doing so in direct competition with much bigger and more sustained Chinese bets is downright suicidal.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity.

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3D Printing Will Revive Conglomerates

Harvard Business Review

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.