Startup Program Design: A Practical Guide for Creating Accelerators and Incubators at Any Organization

Startup Program Design is a practical manual for designing and executing a powerful startup program that delivers value for all parties involved. It provides tools to introduce open innovation practices, identify the right strategy, and design an attractive and effective offer, with real-world examples, interviews, lessons learned, and diagrams and canvases. It is a first-of-its-kind guide for true innovation.

Format: Hardback
Length: 496 pages
Publication date: 05 August 2022
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Startup accelerators, business incubators, and hackathons are essential components of the innovation ecosystem development practices that have been used to discover, launch, and scale the most forward-looking startups of the last decade. If you want to adopt these approaches to your own business but aren't sure how to implement them, now is the time to master the practices of today's most successful early-stage investors. In Startup Program Design, two seasoned veterans deeply versed in startup engagement programs provide you with the tools to introduce open innovation practices to your organization. While other books on innovation management tend to be conceptual at the expense of hands-on experience, Startup Program Design is a practical manual vertically focused on preparing the organization, identifying the right strategy, and designing an attractive and effective offer. Filled with real-world examples, interviews with program managers, lessons learned, and diagrams and canvases that outline a step-by-step logical sequence, Startup Program Design points you toward results that are scalable and repeatable. Whether you're an innovation manager, executive, consultant, service designer, business owner, or startup community activist, this first-of-its-kind guide offers a radical new framework for true innovation.

Weight: 706g
Dimension: 163 x 236 x 42 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781260463255