Learning to innovate like a corporate - really? The best of 2 worlds: startup speed vs. systematic corporate innovation
Startups are great at innovation. So why do some of the best innovations still come from corporates? Because they do it systematically.
✓ Participants learn:
✓ What to borrow from corporate innovation, and what to leave behind. A clear view of which methods create real value in a startup context.
✓ Four areas where systematic execution wins: strategic direction, customer & commercial validation, growth-market identification, and capability-based extension. A pragmatic view for adopting these methods at startup speed.
🎤 Speaker
Henning Bär
Henning is an entrepreneurial builder focused on translating strategic ambition into scalable businesses. With several years in corporate Strategy, M&A and Venture Building, he understands the internal dynamics of capital allocation, governance and executive decision-making and how to secure the commitment required to scale new ventures beyond experimentation. His focus is not on strategy decks, but on creating businesses that deliver measurable growth.
Henning has designed and led venture studio structures for multiple corporates, successfully spinning off and scaling ventures across markets. With an engineering background and hands-on fintech experience, he combines technical depth with commercial execution. He is driven by bringing validated ideas to market fast, achieving early product–market fit, and scaling them into sustainable, multi-market growth platforms.
Tobias Heger
Tobias is among the early pioneers of corporate foresight in Europe. With a PhD focused on foresight in networks, he has spent his career helping organizations translate long-term signals into strategic direction and ultimately into new business. As a founder and exited entrepreneur, he has built and scaled advisory teams, established venture-building structures, and anchored foresight capabilities in multinational corporations.
Tobias is passionate about creating and growing companies, especially in their formative stages, and about building high-performing, mission-driven teams. Deeply curious about emerging technologies,Tobiasfocuses not on the hype, but on how to extract business value from them. He brings academic rigor and entrepreneurial drive together to design the long-term architecture behind sustainable growth.
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Über Bluemorrow
Combining entrepreneurial agility with corporate experience, Bluemorrow helps global leaders innovate and build new ventures. The same foresight, innovation and venture building expertise helps startups scale more systematically.