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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Its market cap is over $2 trillion. In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. By 2019, Microsoft’s market capitalization edged past the $1 trillion mark, making it the world’s most valuable company. By 2023, its market cap reached $2.5

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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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N2Growth Helps Businesses Combine Strategy & Innovation for a Consumer-First Approach to Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing. The six I’s stand for individual, innovation, information, incubation, intelligence, and investment. “We Next, the ideas are incubated.

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Leadership Comes in Many Forms. Helping Business Save the Earth.

Great Leadership By Dan

Markets are where the value of innovations are articulated. Business, and markets more broadly, are often the catalyst for innovation and are thus a critical players in our innovation challenge. Business leaders clearly have a role to play in driving innovative new sustainable technologies that disrupt current markets.

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Research Shows That Veterans Make Great Entrepreneurs

The Horizons Tracker

Military veterans were included in the list, who the researchers said were often frozen out of the labor market as a result of hiring practices that overlook them or diminish the experiences they bring to the table. The VFL attempts to help by providing an incubator dedicated to businesses created by veterans.

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For Accelerators To Succeed, Startups Need To Spread Their Wings

The Horizons Tracker

Ordinarily, incubators, accelerators and other startup support services should provide such networking opportunities, but recent research from Harvard Business School suggests they may be selling entrepreneurs short. Back in 1977, Thomas Allen proposed the Allen Curve to explain the importance of proximity to collaboration.

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Supporting High-Potential Startups In Developing Countries

The Horizons Tracker

New research attempts to find out just how useful these accelerators and incubators have been in supporting high-potential startups in developing countries. For instance, the startup may struggle to access key market contacts or might have poor market visibility.