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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Entrepreneurship. 2006) and are more likely to be created by making new and unique combinations (S. Shane, 2003).

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Four Questions that every Entrepreneur must Answer

Destination Innovation

Let’s suppose that Travis Kalanick was asked these questions in 2009 when he was planning the launch of his new business idea, Uber. What evidence do you have for these assertions? What tests have you carried out to validate your assumptions? His answers might have been: Problem. What is the problem that your idea will solve?

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The new ROI for digital innovation

Paul Hobcraft

The “impact economy” has been defined by the Aspen Institute as the “twin forces of supply and demand, impact investing and social entrepreneurship, that is driving systemic change in the US and around the world.”. When we map problem spaces (U.S.Healthcare) we are looking for impact investing.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Focus stage: Growth Published: 2009 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2009 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2009 more…. Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Bessant). Double Diamond (Chu). Focus stage: Seed Published: 2014 more…. Design Thinking Process (Stanford). Focus stage: Seed Published: 2012 more….

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13 Guidelines for Navigating the New Decade Ahead

Innovation Excellence

In 2009, after a speech at the St. Petersburg International Economic Summit (Russia’s Davos), I wandered into a panel discussion on the topic of trade wars, led by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. My thought was: “why this topic?” Trade wars were not on most people’s radar, certainly not mine.

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Overwhelmed, underwhelmed at the Web Summit, Lisbon

Paul Hobcraft

The Web Summit, originally Dublin Web Summit, is a technology conference held annually since 2009. The Mayor of Lisbon, Fernando Medina said: “This 10-year agreement with Web Summit will decisively make Lisboa a key capital for innovation, entrepreneurship, and talent.