Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

Within this context, people in big companies tend to focus more on protecting and preserving their existing businesses than on breakthrough innovations that might cannibalize or destroy them. My point here is not that big organizations shouldn't try to be innovative and fast-moving like start-ups. They just have to do it differently.

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Innovation Company Venture Funding Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it''s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. Effective means of boosting innovation already exist, but not enough companies are making use of them. I''ll describe both, but first let''s look at what''s wrong with some of the traditional sources of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it’s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. Effective means of boosting innovation already exist, but not enough companies are making use of them. Corporate venture capital can avoid some of these problems. It’s like that.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Physicians, nurses, and others who work on the front lines of patient care are an important potential source for innovations that could improve patients’ health and reduce the cost of care. Boston Children’s Hospital designed an innovation accelerator to overcome these hurdles. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

They knew the answer was not by relying on traditional internal processes and practices for R&D and innovation. IBM, a company with a long and successful tradition of internally-focused R&D activities, is adapting to this new world of creating platforms and enabling open innovation.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

Our IDEAS Ventures fund is a joint arrangement with the National Research Foundation as part of the National Framework for Innovation and Enterprise. Failure is a necessary part of a flourishing innovative ecosystem. Innosight benefits directly from one of these programs. Not every idea is destined for greatness.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Handbook Entrepreneur 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

But it’s important to remember what comes between the motivated employee and the satisfied customer: the innovative product or service that the employee creates and the company sells. With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

remains iconic for its innovation and entrepreneurial culture, its foreign aid apparatus devotes a mere 1% of its spending to entrepreneurship programming (according to my own calculations and those of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs ). While the U.S.

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Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

“I had a front-row seat to over 400 commercialization projects, and the common cause for failure was that people were creating solutions for problems that nobody cared about. Later, they would partner with VentureWell , a nonprofit that focuses on accelerating innovation. That’s what we needed to change.”

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

How should innovators with a fierce sense of ambition handle the criticisms and objections that inevitably come their way and make sure that confidence does not turn into bombast? Instead, he found Bower on the phone with the project leader, discussing Gluck’s critique and agreeing that the newcomer was right.

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Schein McKinsey Venture Funding Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

has been an innovation superpower. To account for its success, many point to America’s entrepreneurial culture, its tolerance for failure and its unique ecosystem of venture funding. While private companies employ some excellent scientists, most of America’s scientific research is publicly funded.

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Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

A lot of the work and innovation coming out of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is created for military usage, but then becomes commercialized for business application (this includes computer networking and the first hypertext system, which was an early form of the graphical user interface).

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

I’m tired of all the “Woe is America” stuff – we’ve lost our innovation edge, we’re stagnating, etc. What I see is the opposite – incredible innovation in products, services, processes and business models. He is a physician, educator, researcher, public advocate, innovator and very human.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. Investing in innovation capacity. Venture funding for European digital groups in 2014 remained a fifth ($7.75 people, it could compensate for its projected 11 million drop in working-age population in 2025. billion) of that of the United States ($ 37.9

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