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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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How Watson Changed IBM

Harvard Business Review

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries. The third business model is creating an ecosystem of entrepreneurs.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

Competitors used the expensive CCD technology for cameras. But Forus placed its bets on the lower cost CEMOS technology which the mobile phone industry embraced. In 2015, at age 21, he founded a venture-funded for-profit start up, Stasis Labs , focused on proactive patient care. His life was set.

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Health Care Becomes Entrepreneurial (Finally)

Harvard Business Review

All of us know that you have to be a little crazy to be an entrepreneur. But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. According to a recent Rock Health report , venture funding of digital health companies exceeded $1.9

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Refugees Need Jobs. Entrepreneurship Can Help.

Harvard Business Review

All too often, entrepreneurship is equated with technology startups. remains iconic for its innovation and entrepreneurial culture, its foreign aid apparatus devotes a mere 1% of its spending to entrepreneurship programming (according to my own calculations and those of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs ). While the U.S.

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How a Startup Accelerator at Boston Children’s Hospital Helps Doctors Launch Companies

Harvard Business Review

But turning clinicians into entrepreneurs is anything but easy. It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. But only 34% were actively piloting a digital technology in clinical practice. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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The Innovation Mismatch: "Smart Capital" and Education Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.