The World’s 50 most Innovative Companies

Businessweek has collaborated with Boston Consulting Group to publish their 2010 list of the 50 most innovative companies in the world based on a survey of corporate executives.  Here is the full list.  It is an interactive table.  And here is a slide show commentary on the top 25.

There has been considerable movement in [...]

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Why CEOs just don’t get Innovation

Stefan Lindegaard has written an interesting piece in Business Week arguing that most CEOs just don’t understand what innovation needs and entails.  As evidence he quotes research by the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, N.C., which interviewed 247 executives and managers who supervised at least 500 people and had more than 15 years of management [...]

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Open Innovation and Innocentive

We are now on the brink of a major evolution of open innovation according to an article by  John Hagel and John Seely Brown in BusinessWeek.   They describe the success of Innocentive, the first global Internet-based platform designed to help connect Seekers, those who had difficult research problems, with Solvers, those who came up with creative [...]

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