Idea posted: February 2023

Institutions: IÉSEG School of Management    Bocconi University Department of Management & Technology   

Knowledge acquired from contacts in the social networks of employees can influence and impact their creativity—contributing, for example, insights, perspectives, and supporting material to help them generate innovative ideas for…

Idea posted: August 2022

Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School    University of Cambridge   

Is novelty a winning strategy for business? Some observers argue that innovative products attract more customers, who are eager to discover new features. Others argue that customers do not want…

Idea posted: July 2022

Institutions: Indiana University    Henley Business School    University of Reading   

Where should companies source the knowledge and new ideas that will keep them at the forefront of innovation? The answer, according to an extensive study of 18,000 UK firms, depends…

Idea posted: January 2022

Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management    Toulouse School of Economics    INSEAD    New York University Stern School of Business   

Artificial Intelligence is both appreciated and feared: appreciated for the benefits it offers in terms of speed, accuracy and consistency; feared because many believe those benefits can render many human…

Idea posted: September 2021

Institutions: Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg    RWTH Aachen University   

We expect start-ups and high technology companies in general to be innovators. We know, in contrast, that large incumbents are likely to want to continue to exploit their past innovations…

Idea posted: July 2021

Institutions: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia    San Jose State University   

Companies in search of innovation-based competitive advantages recognize the benefit of innovation teams and projects that bring together a diverse set of backgrounds, skills, knowledge and perspectives. To achieve this…

Idea posted: September 2020

Institutions: Cass Business School, City University London    Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University    Drexel University LeBow College of Business   

An extensive review of innovation studies in leading academic journals reveal that constraints on innovation are not necessarily negative. In fact, according to this careful analysis of 145 academic studies,…

Idea posted: April 2020

Institutions: Boston Consulting Group   

Terms such as ‘volatility’ and ‘disruption’ are often used to describe a world in which competitive advantage is increasingly difficult to maintain. The extent of such volatility and disruption is…

Idea posted: January 2020

Institutions: IESE Business School   

Corporate venturing, a collaboration between an established firm and an innovative start-up, has been gaining ground as a strategic path to innovation. There is a wide range of mechanisms for…