13 September 2025
Sogang University’s Master of Technology program signed the Universal Declaration of the Right to Try, Fail Brilliantly, and Learn, marking the launch of the South Korean chapter of the Dutch Institute of Brilliant Failures.
14 September 2020
Sogang University (Seoul) and Institute of Brilliant Failures (Amsterdam) sign Memorandum of Understanding
30 May 2023
Korea University (Seoul), represented by prof. and Institute of Brilliant Failures (Amsterdam) sign Memorandum of Understanding.
FEBRUARY 3-7 | 2023
No-Boundaries Academy organizes innovation study tour to the Netherlands for Sogang Graduate School of MOT
13 September 2025
Sogang University’s Master of Technology program signed the Universal Declaration of the Right to Try, Fail Brilliantly, and Learn, marking the launch of the South Korean chapter of the Dutch Institute of Brilliant Failures.
14 September 2020
Sogang University (Seoul) and Institute of Brilliant Failures (Amsterdam) sign Memorandum of Understanding
30 May 2023
Korea University (Seoul), represented by prof. and Institute of Brilliant Failures (Amsterdam) sign Memorandum of Understanding.
FEBRUARY 3-7 | 2023
No-Boundaries Academy organizes innovation study tour to the Netherlands for Sogang Graduate School of MOT
14 September 2020
Sogang University (Seoul) and Institute of Brilliant Failures (Amsterdam) sign Memorandum of Understanding
14 September 2020
No Boundaries actively promotes to make a brilliant failures. Share your brilliant failure.
We apply the method of Combinatoric Innovation:
Combinatoric Innovation means that you start looking at innovation and organic organisation as a paralel for evolution based on intellectual capital and diversity of thinking. Make use of active serendipity to create a constant flow new business models, functions and learn to not automate by the sheer ability to innovate but focus on combining untested ideas to catalyse pathways for growth hacking that Impact.
No Boundaries Focus
Our programs
Our programs are designed to accelerate knowledge and innovation crossing borders while we build bridges between culture, organization and nations.
Innovation programs
We organize programs for corporates, universities and policy makers. our programs focus on sustainable, multi-stakeholder innovation and development.
Business Development
We participate or help projects to focus on their marketing potential and or incubate innovation cycles with scale-ups and start-ups.
Collaborations
We are always looking for collaborations that help organisations to realize their goals. we focus on sustainable value creation, using our knowledge and networks.
Team
Paul Iske
Chief Dialogues Officer
Paul Iske (co-founder No-Boundaries Academy) is professor at the School of Business and Economics, University Maastricht, Netherlands, focusing on Open Innovation and Business Venturing. He is visiting professor at the Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Paul is founder and CFO (Chief Failure Officer) of the ‘Institute of Brilliant Failures’ (www.brilliantfailures.com), with the mission to highlight the importance of experimentation to achieve paradigm shifts and breakthrough innovation.
Boohwan Byun
Partner & Co-founder
Boohwan Byun (Chief International Relations & Co-Founder) currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Technology Management, Sogang University, Korea, and is a senior banker based at the headquarters of ABN AMRO Bank in Amsterdam. Since commencing his studies in the Netherlands in 2003, he has developed extensive international expertise across commodity finance, financial institutions, country risk assessment, regulatory monitoring and control, and enterprise risk management.
His professional work and interests focus on the evolving role of the financial industry in the era of hyperconnectivity, with particular emphasis on sustainable growth, financial resilience, and long-term value creation. He has a strong commitment to advancing Diversity & Inclusion and Good Citizenship, and to exploring how these principles can contribute to mitigating social conflicts while fostering sustainable societal and economic value.
Strategy
Combinatoric Innovation
We apply the method of Combinatoric Innovation: using the ideas, insights and information in a diverse environment, we create new opportunities. This includes: International exchange, e.g. via Study Tours, exposure of entrepreneurs to new markets, supporting a climate for experimentation, accepting and learning from (brilliant) failures.
