Sign in Subscribe

Toolbox

Our practical hacks, tools, and frameworks were designed through more than 15 years of consulting on innovation for startups and multinationals.

autonomy paris - innovation copilots

How to prepare for corporate incubation end of party

My last keynote with the FabMob [http://lafabriquedesmobilites.fr/] program, during a private event involving selected startups and industrials at Autonomy 2016 in Paris today. The idea was to discuss how corporate incubation end-of-party is coming quickly to Europe and illustrate the five most prevalent impediments that corporations have to

should your startup apply to a corporate incubation program

Should your startup apply to an open innovation program?

Startups have become a cheap excuse for corporations in lack of innovation strategy. It’s not even breaking news; if you’ve been in the business of guiding companies through the innovation minefield for a while, you’ve already endured several trends coming and going every three or four years—

tech unicorn - icopilots - innovation copilots

How business scalability works

Scalability is a magic word for innovators. It is what sets Amazon apart from your local retail store, Uber from a taxi company, and Apple from Asus. It is also what ultimately differentiates startups from run-of-the-mill tech ventures. But scalability is a call difficult to answer, partly –but not only–

omen - innovation copilots

When corporates meet startups

As a quick follow-up on my first two articles on corporate innovation (part 1 [https://www.icopilots.com/writing-corporate-incubation-playbook-part-1] and part 2 [https://www.icopilots.com/writing-corporate-incubation-playbook-part-2]), I’ll be presenting a keynote on the relation between startups and corporations in Europe, for companies in the mobility market. The key

business model canvas - innovation copilots -

It’s time to let go of the canvas

It’s quite a trip to read the Wikipedia page on ‘business model [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_model]‘ where the business model canvas designed by Pigneur and Osterwalder is barely a footnote. In real life, there is probably just a handful of startups or multinationals that haven’t