The World's Most Innovative Leaders
What sets apart the superstars of innovation? Not just creativity and genius ideas. Nikola Tesla may have been more brilliant than Thomas Edison, but Edison had huge successes that changed the world, and Tesla died penniless. What Edison had that Tesla didn't is what professors Jeff Dyer of Brigham Young University and Nathan Furr of INSEAD business school call innovation capital. It's a combination of strengths from skill at leading innovation to powerful connections with other leaders and, perhaps most important, an ever-growing record of making big new things happen. Dyer and Furr have ranked the leaders with the greatest innovation capital today by measuring four essential qualities: reputation for innovation (looking at media coverage over five years), social connections and networks (on Twitter and LinkedIn), track record for value creation (based on the market value growth of their companies) and investor expectations for future value creation (measured by the premium investors put on their companies' stock). Here are the 10 top finishers; Forbes will publish a full list of the 100 most innovative leaders in 2019.
