

The 5 conditions for professionalizing innovation
If you want to allow innovation to blossom in your company, you need a separate corprate governance system to support it. This will allow you
The best way to innovate is for a large company to view itself as an innovation ecosystem. Because of its core business, an established company cannot be as flexible as a startup, which can focus itself on creating one single product. Instead, established companies need to increase their innovation capabilities from within, without endangering their core business. This requires a big change in the organizational structure, which should ultimately lead to a company that can both search for new business models and execute existing ones.
The blogs are categorized into different elements that come into play with an Innovation Ecosystem. Combined with the “Must Read” blogs it gives you a perfect understanding of what innovation ecosystems are and how to improve one.
If you want to allow innovation to blossom in your company, you need a separate corprate governance system to support it. This will allow you
Setting up a dedicated management system for startup innovation is something that can be only done if there is a clear way of deciding what is what. Ultimately this is one of the necessary steps in professionalising innovation within your company.
The best way to innovate is for a large company to view itself as an innovation ecosystem. Because of its core business, an established company
How long does it usually take to go through all four phases and what type of investment fits every stage?
-”Ok, we agree, let’s try innovation. We’ll start slow, with 2 or 4 startups and see what happens”. I have heard this often enough. It seems a logical thing to do, try something first. The problem lies in the fact that people often forget that investing in ideas is, and always will be, a betting game. So the chances of these two or four startups becoming a success are slim considering the odds of 2 out of 10 will make it big.
Creating and running startups as part of a corporate is hard. It’s because the whole organization of a corporate is heavily optimized on execution. And
How long does it usually take to go through all four phases and what type of investment fits every stage?
“-Can you tell me what you would look for in a startup so I can properly build my MVP?” I am at a Meetup where
Photo credits; Marcos Ojeda As we have mentioned before, one of the beliefs in our investment thesis is: “The time of the unicorn is over. We
This is Part 3 of our Investing series. At NEXT Amsterdam we believe in helping others. Not only startup founders but also our fellow (informal)
This is Part 2 of our Investing series. There is often a lot of debate about choices investors make. “Why on earth did Investor X
We often get the question of how we select our startups and why. Not only from startups but also from Angel investors. That’s why we
From passion to vision, why all startups should think about it. The one thing I ask first when visualizing business models and strategy is; “What is
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We’re trying to make this website better for Innovation Managers and would love your input.
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