N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

They are the ones innovating and breaking-down barriers. If the cream isn't allowed to rise to the top it will go somewhere else…real leaders don't incubate well. They are the ones who have earned the trust, loyalty and respect of their co-workers. They are the ones people turn to when things get tough. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

These products are all held up as legendary examples of the power of intrapreneurship — entrepreneurial creativity and innovation within large, established organizations. Since the term was coined in the 1980s, intrapreneurship has been sold to companies as a catch-all solution for fostering innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

Many politicians and commentators mention two critical factors in accomplishing this: increasing innovative capacity and reducing bureaucracy. The data in the graph above demonstrate the link between innovation, bureaucracy, and uncertainty. But Greece cannot stop there.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team. These labels also nicely describe the phases of innovation: Explore, Scale, and Optimize.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. USA Today ran an excellent — if over-flattering — profile of YouTube's splashy but serious effort to provide a high-tech incubator for content and channel creators.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Innovation tourism: it’s a thing. These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation. If you ask the director of a government innovation agency how influential or effective they are, what answer do you expect, other than “ extremely ?” Kenneth Andersson.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2024

These strategies, effective in the high-paced startup environment, are also applicable to broader organizational contexts for driving innovation and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. If that's the case, though, it would be far better to simple spur more Y-Combinator-like incubators that follow the Steve Blank gospel of getting out of the building and iterating to discover product/market fit.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Moreover, they are commonly misunderstood or mistakenly lumped in with other institutions supporting early-stage startups, such as incubators, angel investors, and early-stage venture capitalists. Startup accelerators support early-stage, growth-driven companies through education, mentorship, and financing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. If that's the case, though, it would be far better to simple spur more Y-Combinator-like incubators that follow the Steve Blank gospel of getting out of the building and iterating to discover product/market fit.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance. By contrast, the emergence of new cloud-enabled, incubator-supported manufacturing startups could widen the aperture. Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future. Knowing that today’s operations will almost always win the lion’s share of resources, you need to consciously create a protected class of innovative ideas to invest in, even if money is tight.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. Finally, carve out innovation incubators that will serve not only to build new businesses but also to grow general managers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

They all incubated their business ideas while employed by someone else. those who have the talent and drive to be inventive and enterprising) were happy at work, or at least felt that their ideas are being valued, they would contribute to innovation and growth in their employers' organization, rather than setting up their own company.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future. For deeper technologies, you can’t always innovate at a venture capital cadence, where you have to get big super fast.” The Silicon Valley Model.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Fatigue may be setting in for some Western investors’ interest in African innovation, particularly those that have yet to reap rewards to brag about. Innovation in Distribution. We recently interviewed 100 entrepreneurs to find out which ventures are most likely to thrive. Top of the Pyramid.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. If you can't do those three things, you need to limit yourself to sustaining innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. CEOs remain reluctant to invite CIOs to the executive table, insisting that IT is a cost center, not the innovation incubator it could be.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Here at Machine Shop , the wholly owned innovation company of the alternative rock band Linkin Park, we identified the need to think differently years ago. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate. of course). We also looked beyond music for insights.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. These conversations highlighted some attitudes and values that seemed to go a long way toward explaining Silicon Valley’s innovation identity. But boldness by itself is a dime-store commodity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Indeed, the TFA application process is highly selective and consists of multiple steps.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

These four elements set the stage for disruptive innovation to emerge, which suggests a more focused approach to national cleantech policy — and a path towards competing asymmetrically with China. Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs.

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Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

But unlike most Japanese innovations, it did not come from a big established firm. Coming out of Peru, you’ll find Kola Real, formed during a coup d’état in 1988, not exactly an ideal environment for business incubation. Ultimately, this little device proliferated worldwide, and made a lot of money along the way. Noura Al Kaabi.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

As innovation consultant Pete Maulik told me, “It’s time to switch from here they come to this is how we’re going to win.” ” Here are three big companies using innovative approaches to make this crucial connection. That’s an enormous mistake. MassMutual Walks the Talk by Talking.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They can partner with for-benefits by incorporating them into their supply chains, or working with them to incubate new products, services, and business models. It also reduces the burden on government by leveraging private capital to finance market-based solutions to social and environmental problems.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. Over the last six years the federal government funded more than 50 new regional innovation “clusters,” and across America new accelerators and entrepreneurship boot camps are proliferating. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

So Puerto Rican entrepreneurs hire consultants to badger government procurement to pay up, and in parallel they jack up their prices to finance the long receivables cycle. Mayor Thomas Menino launched the Boston Innovation District in 2010 with his fifth inaugural address. Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

My colleague Andy Hargadon noted this when he did an ethnography of the renowned innovation firm IDEO in the 1990s. Just a couple of weeks ago, BuildDirect received $30 million in additional financing led by Venture Capital firm Mohr Davidow. But an intimate gathering with, say, 500 of your best friends isn’t feasible.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. How do I strengthen my market position through acquisitions and innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

From its founding 31 years ago, Intuit has been an entrepreneurial company, creating personal finance and tax preparation products such as Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks. Intuit has always had a reputation as a customer-focused company, which is fairly unique among software companies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Newcomers like Harry’s still represent only a fraction of the overall market , but they’ve captured the majority of the growth in that time—a defining feature of disruptive innovation. Of these companies, 29 were incubated from the ground up by Xiaomi, and four were already unicorns worth over $1 billion.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In 2017 the European Commission published a report highlighting the importance of boosting innovation across the European Union, after statistics emerged highlighting the clear east-west divide in entrepreneurship across Europe. They also examine the strength of the innovation ecosystems in various countries. Fertile ground.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.

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