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The Mixed Returns From Predictive Analytics

The Horizons Tracker

Educated workers are known to be an essential ingredient for that system. The firms were chosen in part due to their propensity to be early adopters of technology. “IT capital captures investments in data collection and computer hardware that can transmit, store, and analyze data, for example. Strong returns.

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Why Mass Migration Is Good for Long-Term Economic Growth

Harvard Business Review

By one estimate , the number of international migrants worldwide reached 244 million in 2015, up from 222 million in 2010, and 173 million in 2000. For, example, from 1960 to 2010, when the growth rate of fractionalization increased by 10 percentage points, the growth rate of per capita GDP increased by about 2.1

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The Great Recession Drastically Changed the Skills Employers Want

Harvard Business Review

Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs. labor market over the past 30 years.

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What the U.S. Should Be Doing to Protect Intellectual Property

Harvard Business Review

invests vast amounts in innovation – $135 billion from federal government sources alone in 2015 – yet it lacks a coherent intellectual property strategy to ensure that the investment pays off. The strategy of promoting its technology helped Europe win this battle and gather the spoils in growth, profitability, and employment.

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How the Geography of Startups and Innovation Is Changing

Harvard Business Review

The annual number of venture capital deals expanded from 8,500 in 2010 to 14,800 in 2017, for an increase of 73% in just seven years. The amount of capital invested in those deals surged from $52 billion in 2010 to $171 billion in 2017 — a gain of 231%. The third factor is political.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. Model 2: Asset capacity pooling.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, Chandra started a for-profit venture, Forus Health , which launched the world’s first low-cost fundus camera , 3nethra, that screens anterior (cornea) and posterior (retina) segments of the eye for four major conditions (cataracts, diabetic retina, glaucoma, and cornea issues). Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book.