Recent Blog Posts

Start-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...

Strategic Innovation in Food Technology
Agile approaches to strategy and innovation in technology-rich environment is a relatively new field. The availability of strategic innovation tools and techniques, specifically designed for food technology, is significantly lacking....

Beta Test of CommPlexity Shows Promising Results
Last week we rolled out a beta test of our new CommPlexity workshop and the data we collected has us very excited. CommPlexity helps people better communicate complex challenges and...

CommPlexity Comes Out of the Garage
Last week we beta tested a one-hour CommPlexity workshop with 30 PhD students. Participants were asked to come prepared to talk about their research for 30-60 seconds. We then worked...

New Jersey Innovation Institute Opens its Agile Strategy Lab
Over the past four years, we've worked" with the New Jersey Institute of Technology on the launch of their New Jersey Innovation Institute. Many of the ideas underlying Institute emerge...

Commplexity, a New Lab Offering
The best ideas and solutions paint a picture of a future that others can see, others can feel. They allow us to envision that future state and think, “life will...

Lab Continues Work with Fraunhofer and New Jersey Innovation Institute
For the past three years, we have been working with the New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) to pilot innovation and technology management frameworks in the U.S. market. The models, developed...

The Lab Works with the Kauffman Foundation on a Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Research
The Kauffman Foundation has engaged the Lab to develop a research roadmap that will guide the foundation's investments in entrepreneurship research. Scheduled to be delivered in mid-November, this work consists...

Partnership with the University of Massachusetts – Lowell
The Lab is partnering with the University of Massachusetts – Lowell to deliver agile strategy training to members of the faculty and staff at the University. the training involves the...

Lab Launches New Online Course in Agile Strategy and Collaborative Leadership
Scott Hutcheson, Associate Director of the Lab, has been working with Wiley to produce a new online course in Agile Strategy and Collaborative Leadership. The course is a component of...