innovation
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Book reviews and releases
The benefits of corporate intrapreneurship
Larger organizations have advantages when it comes to conceiving, developing and scaling new ideas.
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Brain power
How to bridge the gap between industry and academia
Exploring the role of hubs as knowledge bridges between academic science and corporate technology.
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Why we need to disseminate innovation to overcome the productivity paradox
Despite the hype, technologies such as AI and robotics don’t appear to be making a difference to productivity figures, or…
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Co-creative approaches to knowledge production & implementation
Co-creative approaches to knowledge production and implementation series (part 11): An experimental evaluation tool for the Public Innovation Lab of the Uruguayan government
The evaluation Roadmap tool highlights the importance of processes of collaborative knowledge creation instead of focusing on objectives.
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Getting to the heart of the problems with Boeing, Takata, and Toyota
Getting to the heart of the problems with Boeing, Takata, and Toyota (part 2): Current approaches to KM aren’t adequately addressing complexity
Boeing didn’t achieve the right balance in the situational awareness knowledge challenge. But how could this be, when Boeing has…
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Getting to the heart of the problems with Boeing, Takata, and Toyota
Getting to the heart of the problems with Boeing, Takata, and Toyota (part 1): The situational awareness knowledge challenge
Boeing's fatal 737 MAX crashes highlight the challenge of achieving the right balance between too much and too little information.
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Brain power
The importance of the Knowledge Quarter to innovation in London
A new book argues that cities have a clear advantage in terms of innovation, and this is borne out by…
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3 reasons why being a polymath is key in the future of work
Rather than deep expertise in one discipline, you should have in-depth knowledge and expertise in multiple areas, but this kind…
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Using AI To improve innovation
The system uses crowd workers to break down the process of spotting analogies in patents and papers, before then using…
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Companies are failing to get value from innovation
Knowledge plays a role in a number of the characteristics that distinguish the best and most innovative companies from their…