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Hana Verstraeten

Hanne Duytschaever

Corporate venturing stories: How media, internet, and shipping giants diversified through startups

Emerging technologies and economic shifts challenge corporates and SMEs, prompting them to partner with start-ups through corporate venturing. Successful examples, like Axel Springer's investment in Airbnb and IAC's backing of Tinder, highlight the effectiveness of these strategies.

Masterclass Organizing for Innovation

You can choose to participate in the complete innovation program or register for one of the five distinct modules: ‘Strategizing,’ ‘Cultivating,’ ‘Leading,’ ‘Structuring,’ and ‘Collaborating'. This flexibility allows you to focus on the areas most relevant to you and your organization or gain a comprehensive overview of the entire innovation process.

Antwerp Management School and Voka Chamber of Commerce Antwerp-Waasland Launch Innovative Training for Professionals

With the start of the new academic year, it is becoming increasingly important for entrepreneurs and business leaders to enhance their knowledge. Therefore, Voka – Chamber of Commerce Antwerp-Waasland has chosen Antwerp Management School as its academic partner to launch an innovative training program: “MBA Highlights.” Over twelve intensive days, leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs will develop the essential skills needed to successfully navigate a dynamic and volatile business environment.

Module 2: Strategizing

In this module, you’ll learn how to bring focus to your innovation activities by formulating a clear innovation mission and strategy in line with your company strategy. Building on strategic foresighting, a strong innovation mission and strategy can emerge that will enable the company to allocate the limited resources, efforts and time in a more efficient and effective way.

Module 1: Cultivating

In this module, we will focus on fostering an innovation mindset and culture. Without the right innovation mindset and culture, innovation strategies, structures and efforts will simply be ignored and are doomed to fail.

Module 3: Lead

In this module, you’ll learn leadership skills to thrive innovation within your team, department or company. Effective leadership is crucial to foster an innovative culture and ensure that employees are engaged and motivated.

Module 4: Structure

In this module, you’ll learn how to align various innovation initiatives with structured processes to ensure ideas lead to tangible impacts. It will support you to translate your innovation focus and strategy into lean processes and structures.

Module 5. Collaborate

The last module will focus on how to leverage external collaborations to solve challenges that cannot be addressed internally.