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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. Why this typology: innovation management in organizations. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 31(3), 616–635.

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

Open Innovation EU

Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).

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What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The second wave of digitization is set to disrupt all spheres of economic life. ” Yet, despite the unprecedented scope and momentum of digitization, many decision makers remain unsure how to cope, and turn to scholars for guidance on how to approach disruption. This may happen in two ways.

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Innovation Ecosystem: Bridging the Gap Between Digital and Offline Innovation

Qmarkets

Beginning in the second half of last decade, the popularity of hackathons grew significantly, and were quick to viewed by both companies and venture capitalists alike as a quick way in which to develop new technologies as w ell as determine new areas for innovation and for funding. Some major companies were in fact born from these hackathons.

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Just How Valuable Is Google's "20% Time"?

Harvard Business Review

Keeping it productively innovative and innovatively productive is another. What happens to self-image and individual expectations as enterprise definitions of "productively innovative" and "innovatively productive" change? But employing talent is one thing.

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Innovation Ecosystem: Bridging the Gap Between Digital and Offline Innovation

Qmarkets

Beginning in the second half of last decade, the popularity of hackathons grew significantly, and were quick to viewed by both companies and venture capitalists alike as a quick way in which to develop new technologies as w ell as determine new areas for innovation and for funding. Some major companies were in fact born from these hackathons.

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Innovation Isn’t Just About New Products

Harvard Business Review

The innovation mindset isn’t just about product innovation. Some organizations have focused on product innovation for so long they don’t know how to innovate in any other areas. The product was a complete disaster. How could such a great product innovator strike out so fast?