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Freedom to fail, freedom to innovate

Posted on January 24, 2018 by Eugene Ivanov

(This post originally appeared on InnovationManagement.se) Everyone seems to agree that innovation is a risky business: it involves a lot of experimentation, which often ends up in failure. High tolerance for failure, therefore, can be considered as a major prerequisite for … Continue reading →

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Innovation and VC investors

Posted on January 3, 2018 by Eugene Ivanov

Academic research provides abundant empirical evidence suggesting that corporate and socio-economic policies tolerating failure, both at individual and firm levels, foster innovation. For example, labor laws limiting firms’ ability to discharge employees at will were shown to stimulate corporate innovation. … Continue reading →

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When it comes to (some) startups, ideas do matter

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Eugene Ivanov

The rate of startup failure remains depressingly high: 55% of startups close before raising $1M in funding, and almost 70% of them die having raised less than $5M. So the question “Why do startups fail?”–or succeed, if you prefer a … Continue reading →

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Big Brother Loves You

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Eugene Ivanov

By contributing to economic growth and creating jobs, small businesses play an important, perhaps, increasingly important, role in the global economy. Moreover, as the cradle for novel technologies and business models, small companies serve as the engine of the innovation … Continue reading →

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