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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

It’s expensive, but you agree to pay an innovation premium because you appreciate that in innovation clusters the search for talent is fierce. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Without one, all the social capital, ideas, intelligence and opportunities of the outpost are not fully leveraged by the company.

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The Five Stages of Disruption Denial

Harvard Business Review

It turns out there are lots of people who don''t get the new technology and now social life is a little like a competition to show that we''re not "falling for it." At this point, there can more social capital in saying that we don''t like the tech than that we do. Disruptive innovation'