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  • December 2016
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Reaching Beyond Your Organization: Empowering Innovation

By: William R. Kerr
  • Format:Print
  • | Language:English
  • | Pages:14
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Abstract

Forward-thinking established companies utilize new routes for external innovation with start-ups and crowds. The reading reviews strategic partnerships, strategic investments, strategic acquisitions, and crowd-based collaborations. Case examples include Google, SK Telecom, DaVita, UPS, and GSK. This note can be paired with Core Curriculum Reading: Leading Breakthrough Innovation in Established Companies (#5272).

Keywords

Innovation; Corporate Innovation; Collaboration; Partnerships; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy

Citation

Kerr, William R. "Reaching Beyond Your Organization: Empowering Innovation." Harvard Business School Background Note 817-044, December 2016.
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