Tag: silicon valley
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Despite mass investment, innovation centers are not making organizations more innovative
Capgemini’s Digital Transformation Institute has today released a new report, “The discipline of innovation: Making sure your innovation center actually makes your organization more innovative,” which highlights the prevalence of innovation centers and investigates their value to businesses. The report, which surveyed 1,700 employees at 340 organizations, found that firms are heavily investing in…
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State innovation funds supported hundreds of startups
The University of California announced that a $22 million investment from the State of California to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship across the UC system has supported more than 500 new startups and existing companies, helped launch at least 47 new products and enabled companies to attract $3.7 million in additional investments. “Assembly Bill 2664 funds…
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How bad decision making could undermine good innovation
Here’s a scary thought for decision makers inside large organizations grappling with digital transformation. You can actually be innovative and have mechanisms in place to react to disruptive forces, and still get steamrolled as layers of internal management turn your creative ideas into something unrecognizable. Kodak is a company that’s always held up as the…
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Como as gigantes do Vale do Silício prejudicam as startups
Os gigantes da tecnologia são muito grandes. Mas e daí? Não foi sempre assim? Como as pessoas que comandam o Vale do Silício serão as primeiras a dizer, o tamanho da empresa não importa. Para cada Golias, há sempre um ou dois Davis mais inteligentes e mais rápidos começando um negócio em uma garagem, se…
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How Creating An Entrepreneurship Function Can Help Sustain Corporate Innovation
Lean Startup Week 2017 has just wrapped up in San Francisco. It was a great week of workshops and keynote speeches. The week was themed around The Startup Way, which is the latest book by Eric Ries. Conversations during the week were focused on how large established companies can effectively adopt and apply startup…
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How Silicon Valley Plans to Conquer the Classroom
First graders at Church Lane Elementary Technology in Randallstown, Md., often use laptops in class. Their district, Baltimore County Public Schools, has embarked on one of the most ambitious technology makeovers in the United States. CreditMatt Roth for The New York Times That is how educators at Church Lane Elementary Technology, a public school here,…
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Are regulators killing innovation? UBER restriction is an example…
In February 2017, Uber was forced to suspend its operations in Taiwan after the government deemed the ride offering app as breaching transportation laws and passed penalties of as high as TWD 25 million per infraction (around $827,000) against unregistered drivers. While Uber is no stranger to run-ins with regulators, this fine was the…
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We’re in a global innovation race’: Ottawa announces shortlist for ‘supercluster’ program
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Singh Bains .THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick The winning applicant from the Atlantic region is an industry consortium that would expand digital technologies in aquaculture, fisheries, offshore oil and gas, and clean energy Ottawa began rolling out the shortlist of companies to receive funding under its $950-million “supercluster” program…
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Why We Need To Look For Innovation Outside America And Its Elites
Lately, some people have been blaming the new giants, like Facebook, for killing innovation. Some stories, like this one in the Washington Post, say Facebook’s practice of rapidly copying rival app’s features creates a disincentive for investors and companies to develop new features Facebook might copy. If we dug around, I think we could find…
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