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Intra vs Entrepreneurs- Driving Innovation

These days, almost everybody knows what an entrepreneur is: A person, usually an innovator, "who creates a new business, bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards." Many of us have not, however, heard of what Richard Branson has called the "entrepreneur's little brother": the intrapreneur.

How to Scope Out “Unknown” Competition

When we have an idea for a new product or business, we get excited, and often the first thing we want to do is to get started building it. But unless we lay the groundwork properly, we might eventually find that all our efforts have been misdirected.

Convergence: The Path to Pedestrian

In largely failed efforts to de-risk the innovation and product development process, teams learned the wrong lesson. They are under tremendous pressure to make incremental changes to their existing product line instead of creating novel solutions.

State of Tech Transfer- Interview with Bryce Pilz, Director of Licensing, University of Michigan, Tech Transfer

Bryce: One of the exciting things about Tech Transfer is how fast things are changing.  So, we are seeing several trends. One is a significant increase in the quality and quantity of startups.  There are several reasons behind this. One is that existing industry is doing less early stage R&D so more times than not a promising technology will be too early-stage for incumbents.

Clay Christensen’s Impact on Innovation & Customer Discovery

We’re mourning the recent death of Clay Christensen, the Harvard business school professor who in 2005 introduced his "Jobs to be Done" (JTBD) theory, which is all about understanding what your customers really want. Thanks to that theory, Christensen has influenced the way that we do what we do at The SearchLite arguably more than any other single person.
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