Google's approach to an innovative flexible shell combines agile or scrum with a master chef in a well-equipped kitchen. A recent visit to Google to allowed me to take a preview on how they organise their innovative flexible shell. I admit, the master chef was...

05 december, 2017 /

A chance visit to Google Amsterdam to learn about Google's Strategic approach to innovation first-hand. Google combines a solid foundation or a core with a flexible shell. The solid foundation includes their culture and their strategy. The flexible shell consists of employees who team up...

24 november, 2017 /

I had a positive experience when using research roadmapping to kickstart an innovation network. Before we had one, we had to look into the challenges of a single company one project at a time. Once we had developed a roadmap, a pool of both companies and academics motivated to partner up once public funding became available. Today the second and final part of this blog post. Part one can be found here.

23 september, 2015 /

I had a positive experience when using research roadmapping to kickstart an innovation network. Before we had one, we had to look into the challenges of a single company one project at a time. Once we had a research roadmap, we also had a pool of both companies and academics motivated to partner up once public funding became available. Today the first part of this blog post. Part two can be found here

15 september, 2015 /
With research and innovation depending on ever scarcer (public) financial resources, professional reports to clarify the impact of your projects offer you a distinct edge in the competition for financial resources. To this extent, mATTch offers professional reporting on the socio-economic impact of your projects for research and innovation. We recommend the BETA method as developed by Laurent Bach.
30 augustus, 2015 /

Alfred Nobel inspires our total solution for your innovation challenges. Famous for the Nobel Prize, it is easily accepted that Alfred Nobel was sincerely impressed with science. Upon his death, he transferred his fortune into a fund under supervision of the Nobel Foundation that was to endow "prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind". The formula Nobel used to make his fortune in the first place, however, is less well known.

22 augustus, 2015 /

Simon Sinek made a discovery on how to jump the innovation adoption gap. Actually, he discovered how all the great inspiring innovation leaders jump the gap. They do so even in situations when all odds are against them. Actually, all great inspiring innovation leaders in the world, whether it is Apple or the Wright Brothers, think, act and communicate in exactly the same way. And everybody else thinks, acts and communicates exact the opposite way. Simon Sinek just codified it. And he called it the golden circle.

11 maart, 2015 /
Prof. Dr. Alan Hughes of the University of Cambridge addresses the Open Innovation Challenge for universities. He feels European innovation policy is being inspired by a cult-like belief in the would-be performance of both regional start-up companies and patents.
10 maart, 2015 /
In the high profile journal "Nature" Dr. Heidi Ledford argues that universities might be shifting their mission away from using taxpayer's money to create new knowledge that is being made available for the well being of the general public at large. Universities invest serious amounts of resources to commercialise their knowledge. Often, to no avail.
10 maart, 2015 /