The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Incubators and accelerators have become highly pervasive around the world, as countries seek to cultivate the kind of innovations that drive economic growth. The research examined 56,000 patents granted between 1969 and 2012 from American universities with incubator programs. Making connections.

Incubator 117

Incubator Human Capital Entrepreneur Resources 117

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2023

GE is well known as an “academy company” — a talent incubator that exports effective leaders to other organizations and even industries.

Incubator 28

Incubator Company Survey Consultative 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Its success, however, as an educational entrepreneurial incubator, suggests that it is a potential source not only of future leaders and innovators in education but as a model for educational leadership creation in itself. Indeed, the TFA application process is highly selective and consists of multiple steps.

Entrepreneur 17

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

Companies need to institutionalize innovation rather than expect it to simply flow forth from intrapreneurs operating within existing structures. To start, innovation must be recognized as a permanent function of a successful company, just like other business functions such as accounting, operations, sales, and finance.

Incubator 9

Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Talent-as-a-Service – Use crowdsourcing platforms like Topcoder or Kaggle to access talent that may not be available in the enterprise, commonly for projects but conceivably for operations too. Incubators/accelerators/catapults – Create or sponsor an organization or space that supports startups.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Incubator Content 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

It can take the perceived pressure off, while underestimating the fact that it takes dedicated time and human resources to build a promising idea into a viable product, and those resources are often already accounted for on other projects. OneLeap and the entrepreneurs help the company select the top ideas for prototyping.

Innovation 13

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 13