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What Prompts Investments In Energy Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

Spurring renewable innovation. The researchers highlight that despite the invasion prompting many countries to double down on renewable innovation, others have responded by doubling down on domestic production of fossil fuels. Instead, it is participation in initiatives like Mission Innovation , which has done. billion in 2018.

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When Companies Want to Innovate, But Investors Won’t Let Them

Harvard Business Review

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Investors affect innovation investments. for Tesla as of June 30, 2018). for Tesla as of June 30, 2018). Simon McGill/Getty Images.

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The U.S. Economy Is Suffering from Low Demand. Higher Wages Would Help

Harvard Business Review

Target raised its minimum wage to $11 this past fall and committed to $15 by 2020. Economic growth has been stuck in low gear for almost a decade now, averaging around 2% a year since 2010 while productivity growth, the key to increasing living standards, has been languishing near historic lows since the financial crisis.

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