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How to Fund Indian Start-Ups

Harvard Business Review

India has numerous small retailers and service providers who are shining examples of scrappy entrepreneurship at its best, but the information technology startups that are my primary interest typically require outside funding. India has done well in the last twenty odd years to build its technology industry through services.

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Two Questions to Ask Before You Set Up an Innovation Unit

Harvard Business Review

following a traditional stage-gate process). In these buildings, companies host spaces for idea generation, acceleration and incubation of innovation projects, think tanks, and innovation academies. In 2018, Merck opened its new Innovation Center at the company’s Darmstadt headquarters.

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What Big Companies Get Wrong About Innovation Metrics

Harvard Business Review

Stage-gate specific metrics, i.e. projects moving from one. stage to the next. ” Putting a number on that understanding of new markets and technologies — whether it makes sense for one’s employer to enter them, and how — is difficult. Number of projects in the innovation pipeline. The vision thing.