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Are SMEs The Overlooked Engines Of Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

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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How Bad Leadership Spurs Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

They all incubated their business ideas while employed by someone else. In fact, America owes much of its recent growth, technological innovation, and socioeconomic progress, to inept managers. An entrepreneurial culture attracts talent: Half of the world's skilled migrants go to U.S. Because most managers are simply unbearable.

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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

My framework for creating such sustainability ownership has three phases: incubate, launch, and entrench. Incubation is the process of, first, defining the contours of your sustainability domain by reflecting on the purpose of your business and its specific role in the world. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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The Problems With Incubators, and How to Solve Them

Harvard Business Review

This knowledge gap, I have come to believe, is best filled by savvy incubators. However, there are over 7,500 business incubators around the world. The first business incubator in the U.S. In the last couple of years, we have seen a renaissance in the incubator business. Most of them fail. Many of those efforts failed.

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Innovating the Toyota, and YouTube, Way

Harvard Business Review

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. USA Today ran an excellent — if over-flattering — profile of YouTube's splashy but serious effort to provide a high-tech incubator for content and channel creators.

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Why Does Teach for America Spawn So Many Entrepreneurs?

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. Of course, part of this is simply the reality that TFA sets forth to recruit individuals with leadership potential--and is delivering on this aim.

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. The Playbook is a policy menu, based around three core needs of small businesses: access to capital; people and skills; and innovation ecosystems. People and skills.