Nurturing Innovation

Regardless of a mess of initiatives in cross-sector collaboration and open innovation, companies nonetheless battle to assist the event of game-changing concepts. The authors argue that the answer to this drawback begins by recognizing an essential fact: Innovation is about greater than an concept—it’s a lengthy, collaborative journey. Innovation is extra more likely to succeed when it’s a curated course of by which an middleman takes duty for sparking and sustaining collaboration among the many folks concerned.

On this article, the authors show how intermediaries can assist collaboration all through your complete innovation journey. First, they supply alternatives for innovators to make connections. They don’t merely deliver folks collectively; they rigorously choose individuals and curate the expertise to generate one of the best outcomes. Second, they assist innovators develop relationships, utilizing structured follow-ups and providing holistic mentoring. And third, they assist entrepreneurs maintain their relationships and handle the crew over time because the collaborations evolve and crew members change.