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Looking Back: Four Hidden Trends of Innovation Growing Up

The last couple years have seen rapidly growing interest in innovations that embrace complex challenges and tackle disruptive new opportunities.   That might make it seem like the drivers behind Ecosystem Innovation have just emerged ...  but that isn't the case.  

This article from 2015 shows that the drivers and opportunities of system level innovation were already well established and set to grow.

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The Four Types of Innovation - And Why You Need the New One

A lot of people, even those trained in the field, think that innovation is just one set of practices.  That's not the case.  How you do innovation depends on the kind of challenge you face.  And as a result, over the last 70 years, three very different methodologies have been widely adopted.  Today a fourth approach, Ecosystem Innovation, is emerging in response to the need to tackle complex and fast moving challenges in business and the world around us. 

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