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What Prompts Investments In Energy Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

billion in 2001 to $20.1 In China, for instance, spending on fossil fuel innovation grew from just $90 million in 2001 to $1.673 billion in 2018. Technological competition with China also matters, as it creates an incentive to invest in future growth sectors where China has taken a lead—including various clean energy technologies.”.

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Estonia Highlights The Progress Made With Government-As-A-Platform

The Horizons Tracker

technologies, that were at the time growing apace via platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, could transform governments and better enable them to address the many challenges facing the world. billion per year can be saved through smarter use of digital technologies. The paper highlighted the potential for web 2.0

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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

The Value Bridge Admiral Clark described his strategy as using the Navy’s “asymmetrical advantages” of the “best technology in the world” combined with the “genius of our people.” Admiral Clark’s description of who sailors are as members of the U.S. He made certain the Navy’s plans and budgets were aligned with his priorities.

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Companies Should Take the Lead in Fixing the Middle-Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

Yet many employers still struggle to fill certain types of vacancies, especially for so-called middle-skills jobs — in computer technology, nursing, high-skill manufacturing, and other fields — that require postsecondary technical education and training and, in some cases, college math courses or degrees.

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What Motivates Gig Economy Workers

Harvard Business Review

Nathan earns about $130 an hour as a psychotherapist, and he initially made $34 an hour driving for Lyft, with incentive pay, though this has dropped over the four months he’s been driving to $15-$20 an hour. Yet he told me, “If I didn’t like going out to do it, I’d probably stop.” ” he asked.

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Four Things the Private Sector Must Demand on Cyber Security

Harvard Business Review

Remember the summer of 2001 when CIA Director George Tenet said of the Al-Qaeda threat "the system was blinking red" but few around him seemed to grasp the urgency? Government Information & technology Risk management' I believe the cyber threat right now has much the same character. Welcome to the "Data Under Siege" Insight Center.

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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

And the result of an undersupply of disclosure is toxic, perverse incentives. The original Napster was shut down in 2001, but its P2P heirs continue to share pirated files, and it paved the way for the rise of iTunes and Pandora — and the fall of Tower Records.

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