Companies Recognized as Innovators for 2021

Abstract

Our awards are framed into the 4 models or paths to innovation as described by Boni and Joseph, and published in JCB previously in two companion articles, c. f. JCB Vol. 24, No. 4 (2020); “Aligning the Corporation for Transformative Innovation: Introducing Dashboard 2.0”, pp 14-22, &“Four Models for Corporate Transformative, Open Innovation”, pp. 23-31. The 4 models that we categorized can be summarized: 1) Direct Entrepreneurship; 2) Consortia/Alliances – open innovation partnerships or alignments with Startups & Emerging Companies; 3) External Accelerators; and, 4) Corporate Accelerators.