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August 31, 2021

How to get through an innovation setback

This is the moment that will show whether you have truly learned an agile mindset


For many companies, the pandemic was a watershed moment to make sweeping changes to the way they operated. There has been a surge of interest in corporate innovation programmes and growing investment in corporate venturing — global CVC investment in the second quarter was more than double the level of the same quarter last year.

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