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Obratori, one-stop shopping for startups: incubation services, and funding

Innovation Excellence

Amaury Godron is General Manager of OBRATORI, L’OCCITANE Innovation Lab, and Managing Partner of LOG Investment, L’OCCITANE Venture Fund.

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The Importance Of Corporate Venturing During Covid-19

The Horizons Tracker

The report outlines three strategies to help join up this corporate enthusiasm for innovation with the difficulties faced by academics in commercializing their work: Promote co-investment in early-stage ventures , with a particular focus on proof-of-concept projects. Tailor existing investment mechanisms towards tech transfer.

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Funding The Next Generation Of Startups

The Horizons Tracker

They argue for a €100 billion fund that recruits from both public and private sources and aim for a long-term focus. The €10 billion fund aims to back startups with a mixture of grants and equity investments. The report reveals that 22% of startups fail not through a lack of investment but rather through poor marketing.

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Feedback To Female Entrepreneurs Often Has Gender Bias Baked In

The Horizons Tracker

As a result, they and their ideas may be discounted by the platform because they’re not the intended target market. These products also had lower rates of venture funding and fewer users. Gender gap. Possible cause.

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The Ghost Workers Powering The AI Economy

The Horizons Tracker

The historic English country house is the home not only of the Ashridge Business School, but of the Hult Prize Accelerator, which attracts startups from around the world to compete for $1 million funding to take their idea to market. Ethical data. It’s a model they believe can co-exist successfully together.

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Help Us Innovate the Innovation Process

Harvard Business Review

In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. We all get it: innovation is the lifeblood of every organization.

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The Innovation Mismatch: "Smart Capital" and Education Innovation

Harvard Business Review

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. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.