Greetings from ‘The Heart’ in Warsaw Poland
Exciting to be here in Warsaw Poland at 'The Heart', a unique collaborative innovation center for corporate/startup co-creation within Europe.
Michael Docherty, CEO of Venture2, Joins Edison Awards Steering Committee
Celebrating it's 30th year, the Edison Awards is an annual competition honoring excellence in new product and service development, marketing, human-centered design, and innovation. The Edison Awards symbolize the persistence and excellence personified by Thomas Edison, while strengthening the human drive for innovation, creativity and ingenuity. This week, the Edison Awards announced the newest members Read more ›
Forbes.com – Venture2 Inc. CEO Shares How Corporations And Startups Are Collaborating To Create New Businesses
Blake Morgan (columnist for Forbes.com) interviews Mike Docherty in her podcast The Modern Customer regarding how Docherty and his organization work with leading companies to transform their innovation capabilities by building innovation ecosystems and accelerating the commercialization of breakthrough new products, services, and business models. (listen here)
Connected Futures – Jumpstart Your Corporate Creativity. Partner with Startups.
Derek Slater interviews Mike Docherty regarding how startup partnerships are the perfect solution to corporate risk aversion. “What they used to call innovation is no longer enough. For a large company to live and grow, you've got to do more than reinvent the core or provide extensions. You really need to find new sources of Read more ›
Intrapreneurship Conference
November 16-18, 2016 (San Francisco, CA) – The Intrapreneurship Conference focuses on inspiring and educating corporate innovators on how they can bring entrepreneurship to the corporate context. Michael Docherty will be delivering a workshop entitled "The Hybrid Innovation Engine: Building Transformative Capabilities Within Mature Companies". For more information, click here. Mention code: IntraCnf-Venture2 to receive Read more ›
Notre Dame Innovation Practitioner Conference
Nov 16, 2016 (South Bend IN) – Michael Docherty will present a luncheon keynote at this unique event for front-line innovators, organized by The University of Notre Dame University Mendoza College of Business. Sponsors and speakers from Cisco, Pfizer, Exelon, Allstate and others. Register here.
Product Development & Management Association (PDMA) Annual Conference
October 16-19, 2016 (Atlanta, GA) – As part of PDMA’s 2016 Annual Conference, Michael Docherty will provide a keynote address on corporations and startups co-creating the future and how we need each other now more than ever. Link
Notre Dame Certified Innovation Mentor Program
As part of Notre Dame’s Certified Innovation Mentor Program, Michael Docherty of Venture2 will co-lead a 3-hour session on External Innovation. As part of the faculty for this unique 7-month innovation certification program, we’ll share Venture2 methods and case studies to help these executives build their own capability for co-creating innovation and businesses with external Read more ›
Digital Manufacturing & Design Innovation Technology Showcase
Sept. 7, 2016 (Chicago) - Venture2’s Michael Docherty will provide a keynote address to both corporate and startup attendees at the DMDII Technology Showcase on September 7th, 2016 at the UI LABS Innovation Center.
Financial Post: Reverse Engineering a Startup
The Financial Post (Canada) published an article on McCain Foods and their partnership with Fiddlehead, a technology startup in the food-tech space. Michael Docherty of Venture2 was quoted extensively in the article about both the importance of corporate/startup co-creation and its challenges (read here).