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The School of Innovation

The School of Innovation

著者： Yaniv Corem
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Most innovation content is junk food: flashy, addictive, and nutritionally empty. The School of Innovation is the opposite. Think less TED Talk, more operating manual.

This podcast dissects how innovation actually works — inside accelerators, corporates, venture studios, and research labs — not how keynote speakers pretend it works. Because the uncomfortable truth is that most “innovation programs” aren’t engines of growth. They’re theater. Budget justification wrapped in sticky notes.

Each episode features founders, operators, investors, and ecosystem builders who have the scars to prove they’ve done the work. Together, they unpack why good ideas die, why incentives matter more than vision, and why culture eats strategy, then hires consultants to explain the meal.

You’ll hear conversations about:
• Why most accelerators optimize for demo day, not outcomes
• Why corporate innovation teams often exist to protect the core, not disrupt it
• Why translating research into startups is less about technology and more about power, timing, and narrative
• Why founders don’t need more inspiration — they need better systems


This show is for people who build, fund, or manage innovation and are tired of motivational posters masquerading as strategy.

Because innovation isn’t magic. It’s capital allocation, incentives, and execution — with a thin layer of storytelling on top.

If you want inspiration, there are thousands of podcasts for that.
If you want to understand how innovation really works, welcome to The School of Innovation.

2026 Yaniv Corem マネジメント・リーダーシップ リーダーシップ 経済学
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  • Culture, PropTech, and New Ventures

    Culture, PropTech, and New Ventures
    2020/02/24

    How do you build a culture of innovation inside a 200-year-old conglomerate without tearing down what already exists? Yaniv sits down with Anthony Liu of Swire Properties to explore how New Ventures — Swire’s internal innovation pipeline — operates like a startup inside one of Asia’s most storied property groups, and how they co-founded Urban Lab, mainland China’s first PropTech corporate accelerator.

    About Anthony Liu

    Anthony Liu is the founder of New Ventures at Swire Properties, which sources and funds innovative tech solutions across 17 business units. He is also co-founder and board member of Urban Lab, China’s first PropTech corporate accelerator, launched with JLL and Ping An.

    What We Cover

    • Why innovation culture starts with accepting the culture that’s already there
    • The three pain points: time, knowledge, and money
    • New Ventures’ four-step process: Study, Source, Trial, Adopt
    • What “internal product-market fit” means and how New Ventures achieves it
    • The origin of Urban Lab: 12 startups, 3 months, 100% POC conversion rate

    Timestamps

    (00:00) Introduction and guest background
    (02:30) Why innovation culture starts with what’s already there
    (07:30) New Ventures’ four-step process
    (15:45) Building trust over knowing the tech
    (24:00) What is PropTech?
    (28:30) Urban Lab: China’s first PropTech accelerator

    Key Takeaways

    1. Don’t fight the existing culture. Connect innovation to what people already care about — their KPIs, their promotions, their teams.
    2. Remove the three blockers. Time, knowledge, and budget. Once you do, people are willing to try almost anything.
    3. Real-world POCs beat lab experiments. Lab experiments give you data; real deployments give you buy-in and genuine learning.

    Resources & Links Mentioned

    • Swire Properties New Ventures — search “Swire Properties New Ventures”
    • Urban Lab — China’s first PropTech accelerator (JLL + Swire + Ping An)
    • Airlite Air-Purifying Paint: airlite.com

    Where to Find Anthony Liu

    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/anthony-liu-swire

    Where to Find Yaniv Corem

    Link in bio: sleek.bio/yanivcorem
    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yanivcorem

    Subscribe & Follow

    Subscribe to The School of Innovation on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Have a guest recommendation? Email hello@startupsystem.io
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    44 分
  • The Entrepreneurial Scientist

    The Entrepreneurial Scientist
    2020/07/13

    Christian Tidona is a virologist, biotech entrepreneur, and business angel. He is the founder and CEO of BioMedX Institute in Heidelberg, Germany — a research institute that bridges academia and industry by combining global crowdsourcing with local incubation. This episode is hosted by Adrian Rubstein, Innovation Manager at Mergroup in Latin America.

    What We Cover

    • Why academia turns money into knowledge and industry turns knowledge into money — and why they speak the same language backwards
    • How BioMedX launched without venture capital or public funding
    • The global crowdsourcing and local incubation model: 200–600 applications, 15 finalists, a five-day bootcamp
    • Why four nights without sleep is the selection mechanism
    • How BioMedX is approaching pandemic preparedness with the Rapid Antiviral Response Platform
    • The three types of scientists: academic, industry, and entrepreneur

    Timestamps

    00:00 – Why academia and industry speak the same language backwards
    02:00 – BioMedX: the origin story and the Merck partnership
    05:00 – Launching without VC: how three sponsored projects made it work
    07:00 – The crowdsourcing and bootcamp model explained
    09:00 – No sleep, no ego: how BioMedX selects its researchers
    12:00 – The Rapid Antiviral Response Platform and COVID-19 research
    16:00 – Three types of scientists and advice for aspiring entrepreneurs

    Key Takeaways

    1. Great research institutes need to bridge the gap between exploration and commercialization — BioMedX was designed to live in that gap.
    2. Trust between collaborators is built under pressure, not in a normal assessment center — sleep deprivation reveals character faster than any formal process.
    3. Before becoming an entrepreneur, figure out which of the three types you are: academic, industry, or entrepreneur. Knowing yourself early saves years of friction.

    Resources & Links Mentioned

    • BioMedX Institute: bio.mx
    • Merck Innovation Cup (referenced in episode)
    • Rapid Antiviral Response Platform (referenced in episode)

    Where to Find Christian Tidona

    Website: bio.mx
    Search Christian Tidona on LinkedIn

    Where to Find Yaniv Corem
    Link in bio: sleek.bio/yanivcorem
    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yanivcorem

    Subscribe & Follow
    If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to The School of Innovation so you never miss a conversation.
    Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5VOBVkueP7zg5ErNYtrmPL
    Listen on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-school-of-innovation/id1498420449


    Have a guest recommendation or want to be on the show? Email hello@startupsystem.io


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    21 分
  • How to Be an Exceptional Innovation Manager

    How to Be an Exceptional Innovation Manager
    2020/02/10

    Most innovation programs don't fail because of bad ideas — they fail because of misalignment. Adrian Rubenstein, Innovation Manager for Latin America at Merck Group, shares how to navigate the political realities of large organizations and move ideas from concept to tested prototype.

    About Adrian Rubenstein

    Adrian Rubenstein holds degrees in biology, pharmacy, and epidemiology. After working as a medical advisor at a pharmaceutical company, his passion for technology led him to his role as Innovation Manager for Argentina and Latin America at Merck Group.

    What We Cover

    • Why most innovation ideas die before they get a chance to fail properly
    • The role of purpose-alignment in getting stakeholder buy-in
    • How to influence without authority inside large organizations
    • Adrian's structured innovation process: discovery, journey mapping, ideation, prototyping
    • Using video instead of PowerPoint to get executive attention
    • How to measure innovation success beyond launched products

    Timestamps

    00:00 – Introduction
    01:35 – Adrian's career path: from biology to innovation management
    05:00 – Why corporate innovation fails: the misalignment problem
    10:00 – How to align stakeholders on purpose before anything else
    15:00 – Influencing without authority
    20:00 – Discovery, Five Whys, journey mapping, ideation

    Key Takeaways

    1. Start with purpose, not the idea. Before pitching any innovation, align every stakeholder on a shared purpose. Without it, everyone pulls in different directions — and the best idea becomes a turf war.
    2. Influence through understanding, not conviction. You have no formal authority as an innovation manager. Influence comes from deeply understanding what each stakeholder needs and showing how your solution helps them get it.
    3. Go deep before you go wide. Use the Five Whys to get to the real problem, not the symptom. Most teams jump to solutions too early. Real diagnosis is where the leverage is.

    Resources & Links Mentioned

    • Merck Group: merckgroup.com

    Where to Find Adrian Rubenstein

    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/adrianrubenstein

    Where to Find Yaniv Corem

    Link in bio: sleek.bio/yanivcorem
    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yanivcorem

    Subscribe & Follow

    Subscribe to The School of Innovation on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Have a guest recommendation? Email hello@startupsystem.io
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    38 分
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