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Everyone is looking for the product of the future When was the last time you saw a really new product? The first smartphone? Quite a while ago. The Segway? Very...

Innovation arises from business decisions and is not a coincidence. It is not random trends or sudden ideas that lead to market success, but a well thought-out innovation strategy that...

Innovation in the company needs a business case Innovation should pay off. This is ensured by the business case. More precisely, the “Innovation Business Case“. If it is not foreseeable...

The strategic decision as to who can play a part in innovation Innovation means developing something new and being successful with it in the target group. For companies, this usually...

Innovation is a buzzword AND an important success factor for companies today. This is because companies are increasingly looking for ways to promote their innovation culture and develop groundbreaking ideas....

9 Areas for Designing a Successful Innovation System Sporadic, individual initiatives …, good ideas that just don’t fit the company’s strategy …, ideas that get mired and then forgotten …,...

What color is your Innovation Culture? Disruptive, incremental, radical, evolutionary, revolutionary, technology-oriented, customer oriented, cost-oriented, value-oriented, digitally or analogically. Depending on the perspective, the number of different types of types...

Can’t we just have some brilliant ideas?! Ideas are of course a necessary part of successful innovation. Even if having ideas is not sufficient for innovation. It is mostly just...

A good team creates innovation success. Whether industrial company or start-up. But industrial companies can also learn something from the start-up world. Successful startup investors invest secondarily in good ideas....

Innovation does not sell itself. Not even innovation sells itself. Customers don’t know the new product. They don’t know that they need it. And customers don’t want anything new. They...

When good advice is darely needed and ideas are rare, an ideation workshop can help. Ideation is a synonym for idea development or idea creation. It doesn’t always have to...

How a Patent Booster Workshop works R&D people are familiar with this situation: Sitting alone before the laptop, doing regular patent researches, generating ideas with the hope to develop a...

Innovation also needs budget approval The larger the company and the innovation project, the greater the chance that a long-term budget will have to be requested. Usually in the budget...

Introduction iEER is an Interreg Europe funded flagship project that has been revived for 2022, bringing together 8 regions. Originally initiated in 2016 by a group of regions awarded with...

The creative power of the third dimension Creative techniques can help to stimulate group work and promote innovative thinking. The “LEGO® Serious Play®” method (LSP for short) works with three-dimensional...

Workshops schaffen viele Ideen in kurzer Zeit Ideas are not everything. But without ideas it is also difficult. That’s why many people ask themselves: How does idea generation work? How...

There are many misconceptions in companies about innovation management. No wonder: innovation is hype, buzzword and hope for the future at the same time. The label “being innovative” has an...

Real innovation has low costs and high prices When it comes to consumer goods, we associate innovation with high prices. “Only what is expensive is good”. In innovation development, we...

Consulting for innovation and future business Innovation Consulting for business model innovation often sounds strange to development managers, developers and engineers at first. Aren’t we the experts? What are they supposed...

Management Consultants also help in engineering Innovation Consulting for technology innovation often sounds strange to development managers, developers and engineers. Aren’t we the experts? What do they think they can...

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