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Innovation Leader characteristics

Every Innovation Leader has unique skills, capabilities, experiences, mindset, personality, etc. I’m referring here to those Innovation Leaders who are responsible

1. to stimulate innovation in their country or region

2. to support local innovators through their innovation journey.

These Innovation Leaders have (mainly Horizon 2) innovation as an additional responsibility to their regular job.

There are desired traits that make an Innovation Leader especially effective. Following are some of my observations and examples from a few selected geographies.

Successful Innovation Leaders in a large corporation need of course many other capabilities like organizational acumen, strategic insight, networking, expertise and securing resources. The especially positive stories I selected above left me a particular impression and had significant impact.

As John Maxwell said:

““The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”

Do you agree? Disagree? Please share below!

More about this topic: Start an innovation program

More of my blogs on innovation: Wim Vandenhouweele

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