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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. These two extremes – and everything in between – have been topic of discussion ever since.

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50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Open Innovation EU

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. This happened to us at SuperMac when our sales skyrocketed. Source: www.inc.com/steve-blank/defining-new-markets.html.

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

Destination Innovation

In 2004 Musk had helped fund the start-up Tesla Motors in order to produce mass market electric cars. In 2013 Musk proposed a radical new concept for transportation, the ‘Hyperloop’ which would transport people at speeds of up to 700 mph through pods in low-pressure tubes. In 2008 he became CEO and product architect.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

Innovation Management focuses on creating and managing sustainable business (Crossan & Apaydin, 2010; Keeley, Walters, Pikkel, & Quinn, 2013). Why this typology: innovation management in organizations. Academic Relevance. 2) and has been widely studied (i.e. – Griggs, D., Stafford-Smith, M., Gaffney, O., Rockström, J.,

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Testing New Business Ideas: Learnings from OWLET [Part 1]

Strategyzer Innovation

We often use the OWLET team video from the International Business Model Competition in 2013 to illustrate how to de-risk new ideas, cheaply and quickly. Success in innovation and entrepreneurship is based on solid testing. Colvin explaining why they tested market risk first before testing the technology risk.

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How China Creates the Strongest Innovation System

The BMI Lab Blog

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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