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Against the Odds, Women Can Still be Powerful Innovators

Innovation, or the creation of new products or processes, helps small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) be more productive and profitable -- and sometimes even survive. As a catalyst of social Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Kristen Madison , Curt Moore , Josh Daspit and Joyce Komakech Nabisaalu

Learn From Leaders: Developing an Idea

  Over the past several years EIX editors have interviewed famous and noteworthy founders and CEOs of groundbreaking companies, and published the videos of those discussions on our site. We Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Jon Eckhardt and Daniel Forbes

Will Covid-19 Take the Air out of Silicon Valley?

With the elections in the rearview mirror, attention has once again returned to the pandemic. We have been speculating as to what the long-lasting effects might be for entrepreneurs and for Silicon Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Michael S. Dahl and Olav Sorenson

Can You Afford to Experiment?

Lean Startup & Minimum Viable Products have replaced planning and are helping entrepreneurs find product-market fit more quickly. But these tools also have costs and risks. Historically, Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Andrea Contigiani

Resilience to Resurgence: How to Grow Your Way Out of the Crisis

In this discussion, Professor Mat Hughes talks with Dr. Leonardo Lim, a tech scout, corporate scale-up builder, and international collaborator. Dr. Lim has extensive experience in consumer Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Mat Hughes

Which Innovations Should You Keep When the Crisis is Over?

EDITOR'S NOTE: This popular EIX article, published during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, includes timely advice for emerging from any crisis. Although difficult to see at the moment, the Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Theodore L. Waldron and James C Wetherbe

Turn Your Idea Into an Innovation

Many innovations have started with people who were not engineers, scientists or coders, and had no idea how to turn their great idea into a marketable product or service. Fortunately, today's Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

The 5 Mortal Sins of New Product Development

Sometimes an innovator or new company has an idea for a product that seems to have blockbuster potential -- only to fizzle and flop.  Why does this happen? In this interview with EIX's Kim Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Six Takeaways for Startups from a Mideast Battlefield

EDITOR’S NOTE: Pete Newell is a nationally recognized innovation expert whose work is transforming how the government and other large organizations compete and drive growth. He is the CEO of BMNT, Read More...

Category: Practice Insight

Author: Peter Newell

Remembering Clay Christensen

Clay Christensen, the Harvard Business School educator who passed away in January 2020, changed the way people around the world think of innovation. Through widely-read books, such as "The Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Daniel Forbes