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George Watt and Howard AbramsLean Entrepreneurshiphttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3942-1_5

5. Innovation Support Structure

An Established Business’ Unfair Advantage
George Watt1  and Howard Abrams2
(1)
Kanata, ON, Canada
(2)
San Mateo, CA, USA
 

“Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.”

—Albert Einstein

Unfortunately, it is not enough to put a formal incubation program in place and simply walk away. As we pointed out in Chapter 4, there needs to be a team to take ownership of keeping the incubation program, and its spirit, on track. There have been times when we have attempted to turn over even small portions of the program to other teams and things started to get off track quickly. ...

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