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Net Zero Efforts Are Slowly Paying Off

The Horizons Tracker

Between 2000 and 2010, emissions went up by 2.3% These rules include things like using less energy, making clean technology cheaper, protecting forests, and using cleaner sources of energy. each year, but that slowed to 1.3% per year until 2014, and then dropped even further to 0.8%

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The Mixed Returns From Predictive Analytics

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers assessed a representative sample of manufacturing plants in the United States in 2010 and 2015, with a survey asking them about their use of predictive analytics, their management practices, the use of data in their decision-making, and the general design of their production process. Strong returns.

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Why Deep Investment In Automation Results In More Jobs

The Horizons Tracker

A second paper from LSE found that there was no real relation to the return of jobs after a recession, and the investment in automated technologies in a particular industry. They are at pains to point out, however, that this is not to be taken as a sign of jobs being destroyed, or indeed that this technological disruption is a new thing.

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Do Emojis Reinforce Cultural Stereotypes About Race?

The Horizons Tracker

“For a lot of our technologies there is an ideal user imagined, and these skin-tone modifiers created a moment of rupture for those users—in this case, white people—who suddenly were made aware of race in an interface that had previously seemed raceless to them.” ” Supporting communication. .

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The Right Way to Spend Your Innovation Budget

Harvard Business Review

Innovation is famously difficult — many projects end up losing money, frustrating employees, and going nowhere. And yet corporations and governments spend billions of dollars annually pursuing innovation. Innovation projects often fail because the resources are spent on the wrong kind of innovation.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business Review

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. You would be wrong.

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How the Geography of Startups and Innovation Is Changing

Harvard Business Review

We’re used to thinking of high-tech innovation and startups as generated and clustered predominantly in fertile U.S. 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. Jakal Pan/Getty Images. The third factor is political.