The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

For instance, last year I wrote about the Ocean Discovery XPrize, which had attracted a number of young participants to develop unmanned technologies that are capable of providing high-resolution and rapid mapping of the oceans.

Skills 135

Skills Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Education 135

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

That’s largely the ethos behind accelerators such as Entrepreneur First, who back exceptional people and help them turn their intellect into marketable products and successful businesses. ” The Kickstarter experiment was then followed up with an analysis of the startups participating in the Technion incubator program in Israel.

Skills 130

Skills Team Incubator Brainstorming 130

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 21, 2021

Susanna Camp is a journalist specializing in emerging technology. The city was buzzing with excitement, with startups popping up everywhere, and events and pitch nights hosted by new incubators hoping to attract investors. That’s why accelerators and incubators and tech ecosystems are so vital to this iterative process.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Incubator Open-book Learning-by-Doing 109

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

This knowledge gap, I have come to believe, is best filled by savvy incubators. However, there are over 7,500 business incubators around the world. The first business incubator in the U.S. In the last couple of years, we have seen a renaissance in the incubator business. Most of them fail. Many of those efforts failed.

Incubator 18

Incubator Business Incubator Real Estate Venture Capitalist 18

Strategy Driven

APRIL 19, 2019

Blockchain technology – the decentralized tech that was famously introduced to supports bitcoin – is now be leveraged to remedy the many disparities that exist in today’s online content landscape. This is the beauty of blockchain technology. By 2024, the global blockchain market is projected to exceed $60 billion.

Content 61

Content Decentralization Advertising Incubator 61

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. Instead, markets have become stodgy and increasingly immune to competition. Hype run wild.

Venture Capitalist 59

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 59

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

link] ATIG Dear Mike, "I've found that 90% of problems companies have on-line are created by management, not technology" David Segal Why not E-leader ( participative) for better decision making to do the right thing ? We must slow down the technology speed and its consequences. Thanks, Sami impassioned Hi Mike.

Leadership 419

Leadership Blog Consultative Brand 419

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

What about doing market research?” process, some market research can still be done during the idea development stage. It is now possible to shift a large part of the market research into the product development phase. First, you would do market research to gain some insight into a potential market or an underserved market.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. That’s not our market position, so we don’t need to worry about it. DAVID: Yeah.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There is no burden on those who proposed a new idea or technology to talk to customers, build minimal viable products, test hypotheses or understand the barriers to deployment. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force, one of us built a curation process to help technology solutions to be deployed rapidly. As the head of the U.S.

Process 14

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

companies produce the batteries required for price-competitive electric vehicles that can truly shift the market? Perhaps it is here, and not in Americans' two-car garages, where the large early market for advanced battery technology resides. The Chinese now account for 80% of this market and will soon take it global.

Incubator 15

Incubator Business Model Mass Marketing Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

In the tech startup world, technology is important for success, but it does not disproportionately determine winners and losers. Two companies can invent similar technologies; one will win and the other will lose. Focusing on technology supremacy alone is a model for failure. You can't resell that CD, legally.

Licensing 16

Licensing Software Incubator Automotive 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2018

Mr. Rockefeller’s business strategy was to vertically integrate every aspect of the oil business (exploration, development, logistics, marketing) to assure an ongoing competitive advantage. Likewise, the airlines have demonstrated that well-constructed alliances can be a powerful way to build market position and capitalize on scale.

Incubator 8

Incubator Insurance Cost of Capital Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

When I took over as chief marketing officer at GE, the mandate from CEO Jeff Immelt was to make marketing a vital operating function that could drive organic growth. We realized early on that it wouldn’t be enough for marketers just to focus on advertising and external messaging. Shape the market early. Go to new places.

Innovation 16

Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

My framework for creating such sustainability ownership has three phases: incubate, launch, and entrench. Incubation is the process of, first, defining the contours of your sustainability domain by reflecting on the purpose of your business and its specific role in the world. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

Incubator 10

Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2018

Japan remains the world’s second-biggest pharmaceuticals market, behind only the United States and China. The Japanese market also is expected to grow annually. The lessons learned there will be critical as the population grows older in many other markets. Read More from the Government of Japan. chairman and CEO David A.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Health Care Industry Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

The seven roles for CIUs are: designing shelter for innovation; supporting best practices and methods; developing skills; supporting business unit initiatives; identifying new market spaces; facilitating ideas generation; and directing seed funding. In 2018, Merck opened its new Innovation Center at the company’s Darmstadt headquarters.

Innovation 10

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s.

Real Estate 16

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

India has numerous small retailers and service providers who are shining examples of scrappy entrepreneurship at its best, but the information technology startups that are my primary interest typically require outside funding. India has done well in the last twenty odd years to build its technology industry through services.

Incubator 8

Incubator Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist How To 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Similarly, Intuit realized over a decade ago that it could not continue to grow as simply a financial software firm and began to consciously create, acquire, and incubate new businesses. Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow.

Business Model 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. That means that 70% of acquisitions of firms in the technology sector over the past three years have been made by organizations outside of it.

Company 8

Company Price Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets. Marketing plays a catalyst role, providing growth funding.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

Jobs in retail, transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture are highly vulnerable to technological change. It also offers a buffer against the downsides of technological unemployment for employees. Over 33 companies are now working on autonomous vehicles, which will soon replace transport jobs.

Company 11

Company Creativity Retail Business Model 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The emergence of big data, as well as advancements in data science approaches and technology, is providing pharmaceutical companies with an opportunity to gain novel insights that can enhance and accelerate drug development.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Incubator Health Care Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The invention of modern transistors, the adoption of standardized shipping containers, and the advent of low-cost assembly lines in East Asia lowered costs and created larger markets for televisions and radios, setting the stage for an Asian manufacturing powerhouse. By the time that substantial U.S. Don’t fear picking winners.

Innovation 11

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

The incubators sold in Western countries cost up to $20,000 and require electricity — which is unreliable in developing nations. After producing an initial prototype — a stripped-down version of traditional incubators powered by electricity — they traveled to Nepal to test it in an urban hospital.

Incubator 13

Incubator Business Model Entrepreneur Cost 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems.

Disruptive Innovation 11

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

A point of market share creates five times that amount. The general point is right — a dollar of investment in incrementally improving the core is almost always going to earn a greater near-term return than a dollar invested in a growth business that might take years to incubate. Unfortunately, few companies do that. “My

Incubator 13

Incubator Business Model Competitive Advantage Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Third, hardware entrepreneurs in some cities can now access a sophisticated supporting infrastructure, including a sizable ecosystem of hardware “studios,” incubators, accelerators, and service-providers that has grown up to abet start-ups in dozens of cities from Austin to Providence to Miami.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Union Pacific, the leading railroad company has a market capitalization of over $80 billion, about 60% more than Ford or GM. Disney, the leading movie studio company, has a market capitalization of about $150 billion. It doesn’t impress anybody with brilliant market forecasting or slick branding.

Company 8

Company Levitt Succession Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

All too often, entrepreneurship is equated with technology startups. Be it skills training, R&D grants, or startup incubators, Europe has experience developing entrepreneurship ecosystems in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere, including the very places immigrants are fleeing. But it is much more than that.

Incubator 11

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.”. Ergo: heuristics win.

Simon 11

Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

Or, if investors are enthusiastic about a new business that Liberty is incubating inside one of its existing companies, he can spin out that business as a “newco” with its own stock. Conversely, if Malone thinks that the market has undervalued one of the companies, Liberty can buy back its shares.

Examples 8

Examples Incubator Restructuring Maturity 8