Purpose – Ask an expert to describe an innovation system that enables companies to successfully advance valuable technologies that fit their current business model – and those that do not fit it. Design/methodology/approach – Strategy & Leadership interviewed Henry Chesbrough author of...

Purpose – Managers need research‐based guidance on how to find sources of new growth when their core business is maturing. Design/methodology/approach – Authors shadowed managers responsible for finding and entering new businesses, interviewing them every three or four months for an...