6. Overcoming the Innovation ParadoxDesigning the Startup Corporation

THE PREVIOUS CHAPTERS looked at the various causes of the innovation paradox, as well as why the Startup Corporation can be beneficial for leveraging the resources of established companies toward breakthrough innovations. We have also examined a number of solutions that organizations can implement to better pursue breakthrough innovation. This chapter explores different ways of combining these solutions, depending on the characteristics of the company.

Breakthrough innovation is both risky and difficult. More often than not, the resources that are supposed to go into strategic discoveries end up supporting an incremental innovation or a new product platform for an existing ...

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