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GE's Eco-Innovation Platform

Harvard Business Review

"We're looking for new models of innovation. Comstock was telling me about the company's growing innovation platform, the GE Ecomagination Challenge which inspires collaboration between GE and entrepreneurs. The Ecomagination Challenge, now in its second year, is GE's foray in to the fast-growing world of "open" innovation.

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Why the Real World Will Matter More in 2014

Harvard Business Review

Kleiner Perkins analyst Mary Meeker showed in her influential 2013 D11 address that “wearable computing is coming on strong, faster than the typical 10 year cycle” of tech trends. Consider the sporting goods industry, a pioneer in innovating offerings that users perceive as filling a dual role. HISTORIC GROWTH IN WEARABLES.

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