Within a few weeks, I am to attend meetings on a multi-year social entrepreneurship effort in Germany, a new social innovation strategy in France, and a new round of policies as part of the EU-wide Social Business Initiative.
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Many of the ideas were enshrined in the Space Innovation and Growth Strategy (Space-IGS) published in 2010.
As I've written before, government and industry in the UK now have a joint plan to push the space sector forward, and Science Minster David Willetts has been steadily working through a checklist that broadly follows the recommendations in the Space Innovation and Growth Strategy (S-IGS) published in 2010.
So extending beyond just the public investments, there are three components in the innovation strategy: an emphasis on small business, the emphasis on startups and new firms, and an emphasis on inventors in the patent system.
President Obama also featured grand challenges in his national innovation strategy.
We truly reached out and got everyone involved, not just regional brands, but also our counterparts in design and innovation and strategy and insights.
Innovation through less planning and more doing outmatched traditional business-model schools of thought, and this mode has become a best practice strategy in Silicon Valley and innovation hubs around the world.
Shockingly, one in five companies globally said they had no innovation strategy at all.
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Webb, CEO of growth and strategy firm Lassen Innovation, decided to go in the opposite direction.
Carolina Perez works in strategy consulting and loves learning about business innovation, technology, and emerging markets.
Those exits and strategy shifts, in turn, impact innovation over the long run.
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The new Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park and with offices in Korea and Israel is led by Young Sohn, President and Chief Strategy Officer of Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics.
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To get there, we will need a courageous innovation strategy, one with the will and wherewithal to invest in the future we want and need.
To regain leadership in the global clean technology industry, the United States must enact a comprehensive clean energy competitiveness strategy that prioritizes major public investments in clean energy innovation, manufacturing, market development, education, and infrastructure.
So what in the world does this have to do with strategy and innovation?
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In the Bay Area, 90 percent say they have a clear innovation strategy that is strongly supported by their executive leaders.
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John Kotter is the chief innovation officer of Kotter International, a firm that helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations.
But in a global economy based on knowledge, based on innovation, no development strategy can be based solely upon what comes out of the ground.
With Apple no longer seen as the market leader in innovation, some analysts believe it may now have to rethink its core strategy, which is based on focusing on a handful of premium products.
If the United States truly wants to secure its global leadership in technology innovation, we must, as a nation, commit to a strategy for innovation excellence--a set of initiatives and policies that will provide the foundation for American competitive strength in the years ahead.
Nicole Kekeh is the founder of The Dora Kan Group LLC a startup and strategy firm dedicated to affecting change in Africa by leveraging the power of business innovation and by working with emerging businesses and industries in Africa and connecting them to ideas and solutions, to grow.
That strategy should include robust and long-term investments in areas such as research and innovation, manufacturing, market creation, workforce training and education, and the development of new, globally competitive industry clusters.
The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills is working on an adult numeracy strategy which is due to be launched later in the year.
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John Kotter is the chief innovation officer at Kotter International ( www.kotterinternational.com), a firm that helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations, and is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School.
Instead, what the United States needs to build a competitive clean energy sector capable of supporting hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs across the clean energy value chain is a comprehensive set of sustained public investments in cleantech research and innovation, education and workforce training, advanced manufacturing, and market creation ( more on that strategy here).
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