Idea posted: April 2020

Institutions: Boston Consulting Group   

Terms such as ‘volatility’ and ‘disruption’ are often used to describe a world in which competitive advantage is increasingly difficult to maintain. The extent of such volatility and disruption is…

Idea posted: January 2020

Institutions: IESE Business School   

Corporate venturing, a collaboration between an established firm and an innovative start-up, has been gaining ground as a strategic path to innovation. There is a wide range of mechanisms for…

Idea posted: March 2019

Institutions: University of California, Riverside    INSEAD   

Past research has demonstrated the benefits of collaboration in creative endeavours. A new study drills down into the issue of collaboration and creativity by asking the question: does the quality…

Idea posted: January 2019

Institutions: Warwick University Business School   

Innovation can flourish in specific sections or units of an organization or system, but then fail to diffuse more widely. Two University of Warwick professors, Graeme Currie and Dimitrios Spyridonidis,…

Idea posted: December 2018

Institutions: Quinnipiac University Lender School of Business    University of New South Wales Business School   

To sell innovative products in emerging markets, companies from developed countries must take into account two fundamental facts about emerging markets. The first is that the growing middle class in…

Idea posted: June 2018

Institutions: ESADE    EMLYON Business School    University of St. Gallen   

Launched in 2005, the STEP (Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices) Project is a global research initiative involving 35 universities in various regions of the world, including 10 in Europe, that studies…

Idea posted: January 2018

Institutions: Henley Business School   

Where does innovation come from? A new study of the ‘geography of innovation’ indicates that most innovation continues to be generated in the advanced economies of the world. However, emerging…

Idea posted: June 2017

Institutions: University of Michigan Ross School of Business   

Research has shown that creativity and innovation come from combining seemingly unrelated or irrelevant knowledge. You can create the context for combining unrelated knowledge by bringing together people with diverse…

Idea posted: May 2017

Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management   

Creativity occurs when pieces of information are put together in novel and useful ways. ‘Information’ here is used broadly, and includes objects, symbols and facts. This broad concept of information…