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What businesses can learn from museums

Museums have higher reputations than companies. This was the outcome of a study in ten countries by professor Cees van Riel of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). The Louvre has the highest reputation worldwide. The Van Gogh Museum and Rijksmuseum follow in the second and third places, which puts them among the top in the world. In the study, it also became clear exactly what it is that makes museums so highly regarded. Van Riel thinks that businesses could learn from this.

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Cow astonishes scientists with rare use of tools 🐄 🧹

Scientists are rethinking what cattle are capable of after an Austrian cow named Veronika was found to use tools with impressive skill.

The discovery, reported by researchers in Vienna, suggests cows may have far greater cognitive abilities than previously assumed.

Veronika, a cow living in a mountain village in the Austrian countryside, has spent years perfecting the art of scratching herself using sticks, rakes, and brooms.

Word of her behaviour eventually reached animal intelligence specialists in Vienna, who found Veronika used both ends of the same object for different tasks.

Source: BBC

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A great read, the paper by Mohammadhossein Chitsazzadeh on using cross-industry innovation to boost businesses model innovation and industry 4.0 !

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Here’s how 10 European hospitals cooperate with new companies to accelerate change 

“Hospital venturing is corporate venturing (CV) by hospitals or health systems.  Hospital innovation with external parties, so outside-in innovation: 

- in a structured way - with dedicated funding - from of-the shelve investments, an investment fund or intensive cooperation with healthcare VC’s (venture capitalists) - to speed up the pace of innovation and giving better answers to client’s needs with the aim to secure their future position in the ecosystem - situated more at the end of the open innovation funnel: closer to the market and maybe leading to spin-in or acquisitions (by hospital investment funds)

The innovation process: venturing is less about R&D and more about the implementation.”

Read the whole article here.

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