Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

If your business has high velocity, high margins, and a huge market, venture may be a good road for you. There are some helpful resources out there on venture terms , good venture funds vs. bad ones , and questions you may want to ask a venture capitalist if you meet one. However, a tragic flaw has materialized.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Advice Venture Funding Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Governments have long invested in specific industries, offered tax holidays, and rolled out other policies to attract companies to particular regions with the goal of creating jobs and growing the tax base. If job creation is the primary policy goal, then all forms of entrepreneurship need to be explored. But it is much more than that.

Incubator 11

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

And when innovation programs do get launched, like an internal venture fund or an idea wiki, they tend to either be organizationally isolated or easily marginalized. Operational goals like productivity, predictability and alignment are woven deeply into management systems and processes. This is hardly surprising.

Innovation 15

Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

However, despite these massive resources and C-level attention, all this corporate venturing seems to be failing to accomplish strategic innovation goals. As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75 The EC’s pronouncements signal the beginnings of a “Digital Maastricht Treaty.”

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8