Nurturing Europe’s spirit of enterprise: how entrepreneurial executives mobilize organizations to innovate

Forbes, December 2011. This report uses a survey of 1,245 European executives in order to assess how personalities, external support mechanisms and internal structures determine firms ability to innovate. Finance emerges as a key business resource and results stress the importance of budgeting for innovation. The report notes the value of diversity and the relative absence of some entrepreneurial types among finance executives.