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Elon Musk – Serial Entrepreneur and founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX

Destination Innovation

It became PayPal and he held 11% of the stock when it was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5B. In the same year, Musk founded his third company, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX to build commercial vehicles for space travel. In his own way he wants to use science and entrepreneurship to make the world a better place.

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How China Creates the Strongest Innovation System

The BMI Lab Blog

Next-generation information technology. The growing percentage of funds allocated to technology innovation clearly shows China's ambition on innovation leadership (source: Prof. Dr. HAN, Zheng , Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Tongji University Shanghai). BYD became the second largest battery company in 2002.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education. Fed Up Entrepreneurship. Who would have picked hydraulic fracturing as a disruptive business/technology breakthrough in 2002? There always are.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

To understand Samsung’s rise to dominance we have to go back to the turn of the new millennium when Apple released their first generation iPod in 2001, quickly followed by the iTunes store in 2002. Why be the assembler when you can be the Venture Capitalist behind the next big technology wave? mgriffin_uk . +44 44 (0) 7957 456194.

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Would You Invest in This Kid?

Harvard Business Review

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. Human productivity was low and few technologies, at large scale, were created. He did it through sheer ingenuity, without any formal training.

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How to Discover Your Company’s DNA

Harvard Business Review

” And its current focus is on Cognitive Business, led by the machine learning technology called Watson. They abandoned the HP Way and replaced decentralized entrepreneurship with centralized control. One of its most successful marketing campaigns was “Let’s Build a Smarter Planet.”

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What Watching Too Much Star Trek Gets You

Harvard Business Review

August 2002: HBR's special innovation issue hits the street, and my contrarian article about the fickle nature of corporate innovation sits sandwiched between stories by the likes of Peter Drucker, Henry Chesbrough, John Seely Brown, and Richard Florida. Breaking Out of the Innovation Box" was not the title I had wanted, but it worked.