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Are SMEs The Overlooked Engines Of Innovation?

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Despite this importance, they’re an often overlooked group, as they’re not considered sufficiently high growth to attract the wide range of VC-led support that fuels accelerators, incubators, and corporate venturing. They also cited difficulties in raising finance to help them implement their innovation.

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Accelerators Need To Do More To Foster Connections

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Incubators and accelerators have become highly pervasive around the world, as countries seek to cultivate the kind of innovations that drive economic growth. The research examined 56,000 patents granted between 1969 and 2012 from American universities with incubator programs. Making connections.

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Innovation High-Five

Mills Scofield

By Tim Kippley: Jeff Bezos, one of the planet’s greatest innovators, once said that: “You need a culture that high-fives small and innovative ideas and senior executives [that] encourage ideas.” ” The Value of Innovation at Geneca. I have long felt that companies can’t survive without innovating.

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Entrepreneurship Skills Can Last A Lifetime

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It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore that there is a growing interest in developing entrepreneurship skills in young people, with a number of platforms available for youngsters to put their skills to the test. The value of entrepreneurship. Desire for entrepreneurship.

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For Accelerators To Succeed, Startups Need To Spread Their Wings

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Ordinarily, incubators, accelerators and other startup support services should provide such networking opportunities, but recent research from Harvard Business School suggests they may be selling entrepreneurs short. Spreading the net. It suggests that collaboration diminishes as a function of distance. Spreading wings.

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What Motivates Social Entrepreneurs?

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. “Our results highlight the critical role of intrinsic motives to the performance of social entrepreneurial start-ups and provide evidence that typically-used extrinsic incentives to promote the development of successful social enterprises may in fact be counterproductive,” the researchers conclude. Female entrepreneurs.

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Helping Bring World Leading Education To Refugees

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It’s a base that a new venture, emanating from MIT’s business incubator and idea marketplace MIT Solve, aims to build upon. The Future is Offline argues that the success of the Kiron venture could be much greater if participants didn’t require access to the Internet in order to engage with the course material.