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,…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #725Idea 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…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #718Idea 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…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #708Idea 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…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #689Idea 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…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #657Idea 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…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #654Idea posted: October 2016
Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Creativity is generating creative ideas. Innovation is successfully implementing creative ideas. Past researchers have connected creators to implementation by looking at such factors as network position: if creators have the…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #626Idea posted: September 2016
Institutions: IE Business School
Behind all human progress is the question: What’s Next? Asking “What’s Next?” led humankind from the invention of the wheel to the building of the pyramids, the establishment of common…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #624Idea posted: July 2016
Institutions: University of Middlesex Business School Bocconi University Department of Management & Technology IE Business School
When research-based companies hire new scientists to join their research teams, they are looking for two benefits. The first benefit involves output: what the new scientist can produce. This direct,…
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