The mission of the Institute is to bring together global leaders in industries, government, and academic organizations to help each transform to address competition, disruption and innovation through education, consulting and partnerships.

Established since 2009, the Applied Innovation Institute is a Silicon Valley-based non-profit think tank dedicated to the creation and continuous development of innovation as it should be applied to real world issues.

With world-class faculties, collaborators and partners from around the globe, the Institute is internationally connected to leading research institutes, universities, corporations and policy bodies.

The Institute is supported through generous donations and grants from public and private contributions.

Today, the Institute conducts a range of activities ranging from research to education to impacting real change with different industries that work closely with the Institute.

WHAT WE DO

The Institute translates theory into action.

EDUCATION
Working with faculties from leading universities globally to translate the best research into action

CONSULTING
Global executive programs to achieve targeted innovation goals

PARTNERSHIPS
Bringing global solutions to solve problems together with local agencies

CLIENTS

The Institute has worked with corporations around the world to drive innovation across functional and geographical boundaries.

LATEST UPDATES

The Institute leads global research on innovation and disruptive industries.

WINNERS REVEALED FROM 4YFN17 CHALLENGES & COMPETITIONS!

4YFN, 9 March 2017 The EU Mobile Challenge is part of a global strategy that brings together entrepreneurship and mobile innovation amongst young professionals around the world. The competition was divided into mobile challenge regions: Europe, US & Latin America, Eurasia, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. Each region ran their own local competitions and...
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IS YOUR DATA STRATEGY WORKING HARD ENOUGH?

Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (CET), 20 March 2017 Every firm is under pressure to adapt and reinvent, and innovative firms know how to do this. Amazon started by selling retail products over the Internet, but later transformed to offer IT Cloud services as Amazon Web Services. Apple is a similar case — once...
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SAVING THE PLANET: THE MARKET FOR SUSTAINABLE MEAT ALTERNATIVES

Applied Innovation Review Issue No. 2 June 2016 Authors: Indira Joshi, Seetharam Param, Irene, Milin Gadre This paper looks at the impacts of industrialized meat production and population demands to estimate the inflection point by which meat-rich diets become unsustainable. We also evaluate the total available market for meat alternatives, current players, barriers to entry,…

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R&D MODELS FOR ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT AND CORPORATE RESEARCH

Understanding Six Models of Advanced R&D Authors: Ikhlaq Sidhu, Tal Lavian, Victoria Howell Our purpose is to develop new models that define the advanced development & corporate research approaches of modern global high tech firms. While the world has moved on from Bell Labs’ famous advanced research model, visionary and farsighted technology-driven innovation is still…

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TECHNOLOGY AND BANKING

Applied Innovation Review Issue No. 1 June 2015 Authors: Ali Khayrallah, Nimish Radia, Jason Hickey, Jasvinder Singh, Vicky Xu In this paper, we focus on the disruption facing retail banks in particular. Many other banks, including commercial, investment and central banks, also face disruption. However, the challenges to retail banks are particularly vivid and have a broad impact….

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