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14 LGBTQ+ Innovators, Inventors and Scientists who changed the world

Idea to Value

However, the gay community has a long history of contributions to science and entrepreneurship. In 2001, she founded Sally Ride Science , a non-profit which continues to promote STEM literacy, with a particular focus on getting girls interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel.

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

Destination Innovation

In the same year, Musk founded his third company, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX to build commercial vehicles for space travel. In 2008 NASA chose SpaceX to transport cargo to the International Space Station (ISS). In 2008 he became CEO and product architect. He has set out to make a big impact.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

New generations, societal change, sustainable goals and disruptive technology require organizations to be much more flexible, self-reinventing organisms that don’t fit above-mentioned design principles. structured ambidexterity; O’Reilly & Tushman, 2008; i.e. contextual ambidexterity; Birkinshaw & Gibson, 2004).

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Banks: Too large to fail, easy to Disrupt

Matthew Griffin

In 2008 banks were considered to big to fail but seven years on it’s looking increasingly likely that they’re not too big to disrupt. Technology as a democratising force. This article explores what could happen if Finch Start Ups began to bundle all their services together and shows how one move could alter the industry forever.”. .

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Retool to win in the next decade

ImagineNation

Whilst discussion trended down global economic growth, they also elevated risks on a number of fronts, spanning the whole system, in the context of technological & economic risks, as well as societal & the planetary risks. The third ten years 2008-2018. A new leadership agenda for the next decade.

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China's Entrepreneurship Problem

Harvard Business Review

During the 2008 Summer Olympics, China dazzled the world with Beijing's posh athletic venues and revamped urban landscapes. But officials would be wise to create environments for entrepreneurs and disruptive technologies to flourish rather than seek incremental improvements within their existing top-down system.

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When Big Companies Fall, Entrepreneurship Rises

Harvard Business Review

There are many ways that live "corporate whales" can cultivate entrepreneurship ecosystems — as investors with capital for ventures to grow, as customers who buy innovative products, or as marketing partners to give the small dynamic firms global reach.