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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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How To Leverage Technology As A Female Entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

Technology is playing an increasingly important role in people’s lives, both personally and professionally. As a female entrepreneur, it is essential to understand the capabilities of technology in order to connect with customers and cultivate meaningful relationships.

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How Female Entrepreneurs Can Thrive In Crowdfunding

The Horizons Tracker

The study finds that when using crowdfunding, female entrepreneurs can especially benefit from using innovative language when launching their campaigns, with this found to work even when launching in traditionally male categories. Innovation language. Female success.

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Entrepreneurs Want Investors To Show Their Sustainable Credentials

The Horizons Tracker

Jeff Bezos famously remarked that he prefers entrepreneurs to be missionaries than mercenaries, so it perhaps stands to reason that many entrepreneurs create their businesses with a clear desire to make the world a better place. Sustainable ambitions.

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How To Innovate And Grow Via Nondisruptive Creation

Eric Jacobson

“It’s what we call non disruptive creation that allows us to innovate and grow without disruption and social pain,” share the authors W. Nondisruptive creation has three distinctive characteristics : First : It can be generated by a scientific invention or a technology-driven innovation. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.

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Creating Demand-Led Innovation In Healthcare

The Horizons Tracker

It features a wide range of startups and larger technology companies and provides a range of visions for the future. Most of these visions feature combinations of data, AI, genomics, wearables and other technologies that are well known to us all. That is, they are well known to us all via their applications in other industries.

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What Motivates Social Entrepreneurs?

The Horizons Tracker

One might imagine that such intrinsic motivation is even more prevalent among social entrepreneurs, who by their very definition are focused primarily on improving various social, environmental, or cultural issues. ” Missionary entrepreneurs. ” Missionary entrepreneurs. .” ” Missionary entrepreneurs.