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In the business world, designing and re-examining business models is a must. Indeed, innovation in business models is seen as a way to be leading producers of novel...
You can watch the presentation of the Business Models Group here (from: 1h and 50min): You can Download the Presentation here:
You can watch the presentation of the Communications for Think Tanks Group here (From 1hour 2 minutes): You can also download the presentation here:
The PSATT team presented their final project. You can view their presentation in the following video: https://youtu.be/c7eg4kKGoJc And Download the Power Point...
The first phase of the On Think Tanks Exchange (OTTE) comes to an end on September 2015. We are planning a meeting in Rio for the week of the 14th, hosted by CEBRI. This...
As we returned from our meeting in Jakarta we had a clearer picture on the scope of our collaborative efforts and the performance self-assessment tool we were developing...
In our last meeting in Jakarta, one of our main tasks was to narrow the scope of our subject of study – performance self-assessment – and identify the most important...
The business model is an essential part of think tanks sustainability. It is indeed the heart of any organisation, -including a think tank. Ralphs (2011) defines business...
As I sat down to write this blog post, on the eve of my trip to Quito, I thought about the last time I was together with my Exchange colleagues. Only then I realized six...
The Exchange has organised 3 multi-party meetings -and is about to organise one more in Quito in April 2015. These meetings have served a number of purposes including building or helping...
I joined in The Exchange very late. My organisation, the Institute for Research and Empowerment, assigned me to replace my fellow researcher, Bambang Hudayana. For one and...
There is a Hungarian saying “he got into something like Pilate got in to the Credo”. It means: “accidentally, without really belonging there.” (The reference is to...