Leading for innovation

Options Thinking for Leading Innovation

Innovation is the lifeblood of successful businesses. From high tech to low tech, from multinational to start-up, innovation has become every firm’s imperative as the pace of change accelerates. The challenges of this imperative increasingly require leaders to manage uncertainty and pursue learning and innovation across the boundaries of firms. A new mindset is required to understand the dynami...

Leading Innovation within Public Organisations

Strategic Considerations in Leading an Innovation Ecosystem

The Georgia Institute of Technology has been a catalyst for economic growth in the Southeast United States since its founding in 1885. Over the past 30 years, it has become known as one of the top technological universities in the world. As part of a strategic planning effort commenced in mid-2009, it sought to strengthen its thought leadership and impact through the development and implementat...

Innovation and constraint leading to complex multicellularity in the Ascomycota

The advent of complex multicellularity (CM) was a pivotal event in the evolution of animals, plants and fungi. In the fungal Ascomycota, CM is based on hyphal filaments and arose in the Pezizomycotina. The genus Neolecta defines an enigma: phylogenetically placed in a related group containing mostly yeasts, Neolecta nevertheless possesses Pezizomycotina-like CM. Here we sequence the Neolecta ir...

Structural dynamics of innovation networks in German Leading-Edge Clusters

We study the effects of a German national cluster policy on the structure of collaboration networks. The empirical analysis is based on original data that was collected in fall 2011 and late summer 2013 with cluster actors (firms and public research organizations) who received government funding. Our results show that over time the program was effective in initiating new cooperation between clu...