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How Innovation Awards Can Fuel Business Growth

IdeaScale

Wolters Kluwe r is a global provider of information, software solutions and services for professionals: in the healthcare, tax, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and regulatory sectors. Third was to get better calibration and level setting by evaluating the submissions through a cross-divisional review and a tech-savvy external jury.

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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

Originally, patents had a simple purpose: By filing a patent, an inventor or company showed how their new technology worked, in exchange for legal protection for the duration of the patent. billion , predominantly for the approximately $4 billion worth of patents it possessed around smartphone technology. Does this system still work?

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. ScaleUps, and those that invest in them, face the next-level challenge of growing revenue at scale; that is, exponentially relative to expenditures in capital, people, and technology.

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What is Open Innovation? Benefits & Best Practices

Qmarkets

We will explore its key concepts, such as trend management and technology scouting , highlight the benefits of adopting an open innovation model, and offer best practices for setting up an effective open innovation program. This guide aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of open innovation.

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

Eric Gabas-Varini is the Partner and Co-Founder of Innovation Framework Technologies, a consulting firm which was founded in Paris, but has since established regional offices in the United States, South Korea & Japan, with a network of associate offices in Latin America and the Middle East. Merging Theory and Practice. Pitfalls to Avoid.

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Business model creation and innovation in China: not just copycats.

The BMI Lab Blog

We can summarize their business approach in the following points: The Chinese customers are avid buyers of technology. The American e-commerce giant acquired EachNet in 2003 for USD 180 million, with a willingness to step into the enormous Chinese market. How do Chinese innovators work?

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). Innovations of the 21st Century era do not rely on one to discover secret codes of the universe. They were inventors of the 20th Century; many of which gave rise to the said products.