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On the road to corporatestartup collaboration

June 7, 2017

Startups are wary of innovation teams, and some even avoid them altogether; if only the enthusiasm of the innovation team could match the follow-up by the organization. The founders want to get a foot in the door with a company that could really benefit from their solutions, and want to reach their targets as quickly as possible. Innovation teams that lack the right connections, legitimacy and power to bring the solutions to the business quickly are in fact hampering rather than facilitating the startup.

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On the road to corporatestartup collaboration