Soraya Gadit, Founder and CEO of InoCrowd, argues that organizations' toughest technical problems often have solutions already existing in other industries. Through her work with InoCrowd, Gadit has spent 15 years formalizing "open innovation" as a repeatable, reliable methodology. In her recent appearance on the HeroX Speaker Series, she outlines why this approach is a critical tool for modern R&D and explores the reasons why many companies continue to overlook its potential, despite the significant advantages it offers in problem-solving efficiency and cross-industry knowledge transfer.

While venture capital often focuses on finding the next unicorn, Baylie Evans takes a different approach: cultivating entrepreneurs and strengthening local ecosystems to create lasting value in places where opportunity is less concentrated.

What happens when AI removes coding as the barrier to building software?

We sat down with Lindsey Stutheit, Director of Entrepreneurship at Laramie County Community College (LCCC) in Wyoming, to explore a counterintuitive truth: in a state with one of the lowest entrepreneurial cultures in America, some of the grittiest problem-solving is quietly happening everyday.

In a recent HeroX Speaker Series conversation, Mark Ignash pulls back the curtain on how Michigan, where defense is the state's third-largest industry, is reimagining what's possible when you combine industrial strength, academic talent, and agile public-private partnerships.

A conversation with Jeff Griffiths on why traditional post-secondary systems are failing innovation… and what we can do about it.

Most universities excel at groundbreaking research. Few excel at turning that research into thriving businesses. The University of Alberta is determined to be different.