AACSB Releases Report on Business Schools and Innovation
(April, 2010). Business Schools on an Innovation Mission explores the nature of innovation and how business schools and the managers they produce have important roles in innovative activities. Read More

Business School Conceptual Framework
(April, 2010). The Business School Conceptual Framework, developed by the AACSB International Task Force on Business Schools and Innovation, is a tool for defining, measuring, and articulating your school’s unique value. The framework helps to illustrate the place of business schools within a societal structure, and to identify several of the many dimensions along which schools can and do differentiate their
activities and expected outcomes.
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Wharton School Names New Vice Dean for Innovation
(September, 2010). Wharton School Dean, Thomas Robertson announced the appointment of a new vice dean for innovation, a position newly created to help ensure that the very best ideas for improving Wharton’s research and teaching are identified and implemented.
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Danish Government Generates New Strategy for Education and Training in Entrepreneurship
(September, 2010). Collaborative efforts of the Danish Ministry for Science, Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education, and Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs have led to last month’s publication of a new Strategy for Education and Training in Entrepreneurship, in order to promote innovation and convert ideas and knowledge into value throughout Danish society and beyond.
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The Power of Knowledge
(September, 2010). The Association of Universities in the Netherlands has released a new publication entitled, "The Power of Knowledge," which provides 28 examples of activities at the 14 Dutch research universities concerning knowledge transfer, entrepreneurship, and collaboration with private and public businesses.
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Who Has Innovative Ideas? Employees
(August, 2010). Wall Street Journal authors J.C. Spender and Bruce Strong discuss how firms that have successfully made innovation part of their regular continuing strategy did so by harnessing the creative energies and the insights of their employees across functions and ranks.
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Babson College, Business Innovation Factory Partner to Launch Entrepreneur Experience Lab
(July, 2010). Babson College and the Business Innovation Factory (BIF) have embarked on a new partnership to create an Entrepreneur Experience Laboratory that will accelerate the design and development of new entrepreneur support solutions.
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B-Schools All A-Twitter Over Social Media
(July, 2010). BusinessWeek reports in this article about how business schools, including those of Columbia and Harvard Universities, are adding courses on social media to the MBA curriculum in order to create an opening for new MBAs who want to make themselves more valuable to potential employers.
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Study Finds Successful Entrepreneurs Tend to Have More Diverse Social Network
(July, 2010). In this study, Princeton sociologist Martin Reuf creates a predictive model to attempt to measure the relationship between the tendency of entrepreneurs to engage in innovation, and the diversity of the entrepreneurs' social network. Among his findings are that entrepreneurs with more diverse social networks were three times as likely to be innovative as those with social networks that are more restricted to like-minded individuals. This is consistent with the AACSB Innovation Task Force Report’s discussion of the role of alumni networks, which increase creativity through diversity and build trust through shared experience. See pp. 27-28 in Business Schools on an Innovation Mission.
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Index of Innovation Developed at Marshall Center for Global Innovation
(July, 2010). Co-authors Gerard Tellis of the University of Southern California and Andreas Eisingerich of Imperial College London have developed an innovation index based on five market-based metrics.
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Inaugural Director Named for the University of Maryland's New Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program
(July, 2010). Jay Smith has been tapped to lead the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program (EIP), a new living-learning initiative for freshmen and sophomore honors students at the University of Maryland.
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The Idea Incubator Goes to Campus
(June, 2010). In this New York Times article, author Bob Tedeschi discusses new trends in the involvement of universities in the technology commercialization process, including technology transfer offices and "proof-of-concept centers".
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