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JANUARY 3, 2019

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley’s Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2018 was our seventh full year of operations.

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MAY 11, 2023

I originally wrote about this in 2011 and shared the story of an 18-year-old server at a pizza restaurant who took so much pride in his work that the guests thought […] GUEST POST from Shep Hyken One of my favorite concepts to cover in my customer service keynote speeches is to act like an owner.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 6, 2020

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley’s Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2019 was our eighth full year of operations.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2018

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley's Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2017 was our sixth full year of operations. Click the link if you missed.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 5, 2017

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley’s Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2016 was our fifth full year of operations.

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Open Innovation EU

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I recently ran into an article (Walrave et al 2011) that analyzed a simulation of investing in exploration vs. exploitation. A monopolistic position in a certain market will reduce the external pressure to invest in exploitation. A calm market or ecosystem will increase the external pressure to invest in exploitation.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker In this classic book published in 1985, Peter F. Drucker “presents innovation and entrepreneurship as a practice and a discipline.” He focuses on the Practice of innovation, Practice of entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurial strategies.

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The BMI Lab Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Massive investments, a huge market and the hiring of worldwide talent has boosted the Chinese innovative ecosystem. For instance, in Q3 2017, Tencent, the Chinese Internet company that developed WeChat and QQ, overran Facebook in terms of market value. China is no longer just the home of copycats. But how was this possible?

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APRIL 6, 2017

The Founder , starring Michael Keaton as McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc , is the best film about innovation since Moneyball in 2011. This is the perfect launch pad to talk about having dots to connect, that is, market knowledge. Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc in The Founder. The Founder, Lessons in Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

According to the annual 2014 Youth Entrepreneurship Study conducted by YEC and Buzz Marketing Group, 81 percent of non-self-employed individuals believe they will be a business owner or self-employed at some point because of the new economy. Eighty-seven percent of young people want to pursue entrepreneurship. This must change.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Social entrepreneurship has evolved a great deal since the late 1980s, when pioneers like City Year 's Alan Khazei and Teach for America 's Wendy Kopp took great risks to prove that innovative organizations could produce transformative social change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Deservedly vaunted venture capitalist Tom Perkins’ callous, arrogant and elitist recent comments should not serve as an expedient excuse to overlook an important “dirty little secret” about entrepreneurship, the acknowledged engine of economic growth: successful entrepreneurship always exacerbates local inequality , at least in the short run.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

2011 will be remembered as the year of the Arab Spring, when a generation found its voice on the streets of Tunis and Cairo. It saw 5% annual growth for nearly a decade before the global recession, and the International Monetary Fund reports that it's growing strongly again — about 5% in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

This demographic trend has important implications for the labor market. Entrepreneurship is not always about the money, and late-career individuals who voluntarily transition to it are generally better off. Among them, 115 switched to entrepreneurship, 464 switched to another job, and 2272 remained in the same job.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Labor markets reflect this churning: some jobs are created while others are destroyed, and some workers move into new roles as others seek to replace them. A particularly important component of this dynamic process is the entrepreneur, who starts a venture to create a new market or to replace incumbents in an existing one.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. Deep, disruptive economic change is all around us, but the data indicates that the national response has not been, contrary to our myths and history, one of increased entrepreneurship.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Founders Forum is a franchise started by two successful UK-based entrepreneurs, Brent Hoberman and Jonnie Goodwin, to stimulate US-style entrepreneurship in the European region, and now around the world. The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. Fed Up Entrepreneurship. Certainly, equity investors believe the Fed's low interest rate policies make the stock market a better bet for higher returns. What do they all have in common?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Most investors liked the business model and the fact that I was educated in Nigeria and knew the market. Some countries in Africa don't have stock exchanges, and where the exchange does exist — for instance, in Nigeria — the markets don't value tech stocks very well. I got some invitations to pitch and explain the idea.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

in 2011 to 2.9% For a new digital technology to deliver a disruptive innovation, a new technology must leverage two things: A new route to market. This enables the Estonian government not only to foster entrepreneurship in their economy but to generate revenue through the e-card subscriptions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Organizations join ANDE because they share the common mission of increasing the prosperity of poor people in emerging markets, believing that supporting entrepreneurship and market-based solutions is part of a sustainable approach to poverty reduction.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

By being both market-driven and customer-focused, each Goodwill can be more effective. National and international corporations that already have a strong company culture and identity are well suited to incorporate the principles of social entrepreneurship into their business operations, or to partner with social enterprises.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

They are starting an estimated 1,288 companies each day, up from 602 in 2011-12. Perhaps because the fire of entrepreneurship is still preferable to the frying pan of established corporations. Entrepreneurship has been marketed as a great alternative to the strictures of a traditional job — but that vision is often a fantasy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

(Blue), Australian (Green), and Canada (Red) — show each country's predicted patents per capita three years hence (so the most recent number for 2008 is a prediction for 2011). market; further, it is likely that the best innovations get snapped up by U.S. Canadian businesses, especially innovative ones, focus on the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Just one example: Roughly 16% of Stanford’s MBA Class of 2011 chose to start their own companies at graduation, eclipsing the previous high of 12% during the dot-com bubble. Of the 39 companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1B by private or public market investors, almost half were started by founders who met at school.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

2011 will force China Inc. In other countries, particularly in emerging markets, many business families have appointed professional managers to lead the companies they set up while the founding families have carved out different roles for themselves. to come of age, according to my little crystal ball.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2013

A member of the 2011 North American class of Entrepreneurial Winning Women, Gorman says, “This is more than delegating. For many entrepreneurs, this means focusing on the most valuable sales and marketing opportunities — meeting with key prospects and building markets for your product or service.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Even though interest in entrepreneurship is at its highest in India, the country has a nominal seed capital infrastructure. But in 2011, $30 billion was invested by angels and $24 billion by Series A venture capitalists. If one assumes each angel deal was $300,000 per deal, then about 100,000 deals were done in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. And more are joining every day.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Today, the Legatum Institute releases its 2011 Index, and we were eager to know what might have changed. It reveals that the components within our Entrepreneurship & Opportunity sub-index are very important for increasing national prosperity. That resource is people and specifically, their optimism regarding entrepreneurship.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. And we counted 10 local exits in 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

In 2011, GoViral was sold for $97 million, having never taken a single krone or dollar of investment capital. If you’re raising money before traction is in hand, so-called “market risk” is higher than if demand has already been proven. Entrepreneurship Venture capital' Term sheets and shareholders’ agreements can burden you.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

During a recent analysts call, Apple's Tim Cook cited India's multi-layered distribution as the main reason for his company's small share of the market. The same challenge applies to start-ups that market solar lamps in India. Moreover, the market will double in size as literacy and income levels rise.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

million in 2011, the first year of the survey. rise since 2011 contrasts with a 1.1% The job market’s gotten stronger, and that has a tendency to take people out of independent work. They didn’t really blip much back in 2011, and they’re still not showing up high, but they’re clearly growing fast.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Last week, Apple beat the already upbeat market expectations, with record revenues of $46.3 They have the spirit of entrepreneurship (that Paul Graham has described as missing after Yahoo started to grow) — with people inventing and creating. billion and earnings of $13.87 billion and earnings at $.24 24 / share. Can't tell yet.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

GDP, according to Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner , venture-backed companies made up more than 11% of public firms as of 2011, with a total market value of $25.9 Tech startups play a critical role both in driving technological innovation forward and in bringing it to market. Entrepreneurship Tech industry'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2012

The idea that an itinerant New York City candy vendor pulls in $150 a day ought to have spawned one of the great feel-good financial news stories of 2011. Think of the merchants who man flea markets and swap meets in all 50 states — many of whom don't report their full income to the government. He's his own boss.

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