Innovation
Purdue/Fraunhofer: New Offering Coming March 2019
Coming in March 2019, we are launching a new offering. Company teams will get insights into how German firms accelerate innovation by leveraging the power of the world’s leading applied…
Read MoreNew Mexico Sate’s Arrowhead Center: Integrating I-Corps with Strategic Doing
The National Science Foundation administers a highly successful program to accelerate commercialization of university research. Called Innovation Corps or I-Corps, the initiative builds a capability on university campuses to move…
Read MoreDiversity Drives Innovation – But Not the Kind You Think.
We’re finding more and more value in the concept of “strategic diversity” – that is, the way in which team members’ cognitive preferences shape their roles on the team. Learning…
Read MoreBuilding an Agri-Food Ecosystem in the Netherlands
The Lab is heading back to The Netherlands. We are working with our Dutch partner, Human Insight, on a workshop to develop an innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem in agribusiness and…
Read MoreNew Initiative: Agile Innovation
Both markets and technologies are changing rapidly. Finding new markets for existing technologies and new technologies for existing markets is often a complex challenge. Agile Innovation is the latest solution…
Read MoreLab Enters I-Corps
The Lab has entered the I-Corps program to explore the development of an interactive platform that would help companies in the food industry accelerate innovation. The idea for this spin…
Read MorePractitioner Guide to Innovating Networks, Clusters and Ecosystems
Based on the continuing work we are doing in developing entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems, the Lab has compiled a guidebook for practitioners. The publication provides practionters with insghts into the…
Read MoreOur Continuing Work with the Kauffman Foundation
The Kauffman Foundation’s entrepreneurship initiatives are undergoing transformation. Under the leadership of Victor Hwang, Kauffman has assembled an impressive team of young professionals with ambitious plans to support the replication…
Read MoreCan Big Food Innovate Faster? We Think So
Large food companies are losing the growth race. Smaller, more agile companies are growing at a far faster rate. As a result, the largest 25 food companies are losing market…
Read MoreStart-up and Innovation Ecosystems: The Value of Testbeds
Unsurprisingly, academic research often lags behind market developments (Brown & Mawson, 2017). What if, to help us close this gap, we thought of practitioners and policymakers as researchers? What if…
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