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CSL Foundational Research

The original research that inspired the Corporate Startup Lab. Led by the authors, a team of graduate students across CMU studied the approaches and outcomes of various corporate innovation efforts. The bulk of the research was done during the second half of 2017, with more conversations and refinements happening on a continuous basis to this day. In the report, we identify three consistent features and five ways that innovation approaches differentiate themselves.

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CVC Sentiment Survey

In spring 2020, we initiated a survey to understand the sentiment of Corporate Venture Capitalists. Our goal for the survey was to understand the shifting mindset of CVC groups during this unprecedented time while considering the current rate of investment during this economic downturn.

Ongoing Research

 

CORPORATE INNOVATOR NETWORK STUDY

The purpose of the study is to look at how innovation teams and sub-groups form (in terms of team composition), communicate and work together (inter-group and intra-group) to move ideas from the whiteboard to the marketplace. We are doing this in partnership with a global medical device company.

TRANSFORMATIONAL INNOVATION AND CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP SURVEY - Get Involved

This study is being conducted in partnership with Echo Strategies and IRI (Innovation Research Interchange). The goal of the survey is to learn more about outside-the-core” transformational” innovation and corporate entrepreneurship as enabling strategies and tactics to sustain organizational growth and perpetual rejuvenation. Preliminary research indicates that business model reinvention is emerging as a best-in class, transformational innovation practice.

To test drive the survey and imagine how the benchmarking data may inform your innovation engines, click here to learn more.

For more information contact: Musante@EchoStrategies.biz