Lots going on recently so this is a big update with an excellent selection of articles and activities.

• The Barriers Big Companies Face When They Try to Act Like Lean Startups
• Corporate accelerators A growing number of innovation-hungry companies are taking inspiration from Silicon Valley: They are setting up accelerators that nurture start-ups. From Deloitte University Press.
• ‘Corporate innovation does not work,’ says Accenture Accenture’s Narry Singh tells WIRED2016 that startups and corporates should collaborate for the best results.
• Here’s why Microsoft is giving nearly a third of its New York employees memberships at WeWork
• This company helps HSBC, Santander, and Visa decide on startups to partner with or invest in — here’s what it looks for
• Gigaom Q&A with Howard Love: What large organizations can learn from startups
• You Don’t Need To Work At A Startup To Be An Entrepreneur
• Startup Engagement in Corporate Innovation Match-Maker Ventures and Arthur D. Little have released an interesting report, titled “The Age of Collaboration“ which this post covers.
• Can Hackathons Give Big Banks The Fintech Edge? Banks and other financial institutions are taking on some surprising partners in an effort to keep pace with innovation.
• The Lean Startup Is Doing More Than Transforming Business, It’s Changing The World
• Why CPG Giants Are Buying Eco-Friendly Startups
• Why This 22-Year-Old Company Thinks Like a Startup Trading Technologies is a global provider of technology solutions for the capital markets industry. In this video, CEO Rick Lane talks about how his 22-year-old company manages to stay nimble like a startup.
• Partnerships between startups and large companies key to ‘smart disruption’: Optus An Optus report concludes that big established companies and startups should form mutually-beneficial relationships in order to thrive in the digital realm.
• The Accelerator As A Source Of External Innovation + Startupbootcamp Targets Global Corporates
• 3 Ways Professional Organizations Can Benefit Any Startup
• Film Review: ‘Generation Startup’ A documentary looks at six young on-line entrepreneurs and celebrates their Internet idealism — maybe a little too much.
• The art of the Side Hustle When your out-of-office hours are consumed by some sort of side-project, whether that’s writing a book, developing a new product, contributing to some philanthropic cause or some other, etc.
• What Corporations Can Learn from Startups And…Cattle
• The Value Of Corporate Venture Arms Tracking the rise in corporate venture capital (CVC) that has created a new dynamic in the investment ecosystem.
• You Don’t Need To Act Like A Startup To Innovate Some contrarian views to all this startup goo goo, ga ga
• Unilever Ventures pours more cash into Discuss.io, a consumer market research platform
• Iceland: A Small Country With an Outsized Startup Culture
• A Dedicated Team of Problem Solvers Can Help Big Companies Act Like Lean Startups Experian DataLabs actively seeks out unresolved problems its customers are having and uses them as a launchpad to seek out new opportunities and create new products.
• The lessons from Telstra’s startup stumbles Investing in start-ups is hard enough, and even more so for big companies.
• Disrupted businesses are struggling in the valley of death Corporate leaders are facing the same valley of death faced by many startups, judging by the latest round of financial results.

You can see other updates like this by checking out posts with the research tag and the trend report that is a result of the curation of many of these posts: Startup Innovation