The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. Are we all entrepreneurs now? in 1985 to just 5.3% in 1985 to just 5.3% A decline in disruption.

Venture Capitalist 52

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

If you are familiar with the Legatum Prosperity Index, you know it is an effort to look beyond GDP. Entrepreneurship & Opportunity (entrepreneurial environment, innovative activity, and access to opportunity). In 2006 when the first Prosperity Index was published, this was a surprising exercise.

Social Capital 17

Social Capital GDP Human Capital Education 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

And yet federally funded research and development — creativity, institutionalized — is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s. Private R&D spending has also tailed off since then, when it brought us breakthrough innovations like laser printing, the Ethernet, the graphical user interface, and the mouse.

Creativity 16

Creativity Groupthink Stress GDP 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Venture philanthropy taught us that innovation was the big lever. It said, “Go find the most innovative social enterprises – the ones with the best approaches to ending hunger, illiteracy, etc. Innovation is not the big lever. In 2006 Wounded Warrior was raising about $10 million. million left for veterans.

Short-term 8

Short-term GDP Innovation Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Julio Frenk is Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and was Minister of Health of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. Health systems are at a crossroads.

Health Care 15

Health Care Insurance GDP System 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

But Edmund Phelps, the Columbia University economist who won a Nobel in 2006 " for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy ," has been doing his best to change that. He''s also just written a book, Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change. I think that suspect No.

Open-book 8

Open-book Innovation Policies Uncertainty 8