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In Defense of “Closed” Innovation

This image was created with the help of Microsoft Designer Remember the famed Bell Labs, once a powerful R&D center for the telecommunication equipment company Lucent Technologies? Bell Labs’ researchers are credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, … Continue reading

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The Strength Within

(This post originally appeared on Forward Metrics) Back in 2005, on a trip to Germany, I was having a dinner with a business partner of mine, an innovation manager for a large German chemical company. Chatting about this and that, … Continue reading

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