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Accelerators Need To Do More To Foster Connections

The Horizons Tracker

Incubators and accelerators have become highly pervasive around the world, as countries seek to cultivate the kind of innovations that drive economic growth. The research examined 56,000 patents granted between 1969 and 2012 from American universities with incubator programs. Making connections.

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How to Find and Hire the Right Digital Talent for Your Organization - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY

Harvard Business Review

These teams ideally have been through the forming-storming-norming-performing cycle a few times, work together well, and have a balance of skills and styles. Incubators/accelerators/catapults – Create or sponsor an organization or space that supports startups. The LEF is DXC Technology’s commercial think tank.

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Why Does Teach for America Spawn So Many Entrepreneurs?

Harvard Business Review

Our work suggests that the skills TFA cultivates in its alumni may be connected to the spawning of new ventures and the types of jobs alumni hold in these organizations. 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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Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?

Harvard Business Review

In multinational businesses, human resource management tools such as expatriate assignments or international job rotations can help build opportunity recognition skills. It suggests that public money may be better spent on building incubators for migrant entrepreneurs than on building border walls.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

” So GE has hired 1,000 software engineers and data scientists to provide enhanced software and analytical skills across GE’s many businesses. We decided we wouldn’t hire people for some other skills, such as systems integration and change management, and would use partners for that, instead.”

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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

Instead of bringing teams of multi-disciplinary designers into large companies as other consultancies have been doing, OneLeap began bringing in teams of diversely skilled entrepreneurs. Tailored short-term teams with radically diverse yet relevant skills help identify opportunity areas quickly.

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The Myth of the Intrapreneur

Harvard Business Review

If companies want to be able to consistently innovate, they need dedicated innovation professionals to carry out the functions of discovery, development, incubation, acceleration, and scaling. Lastly, companies need (8) skills and talent that are differentiated from traditional R&D or new product development roles.