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What Prompts Investments In Energy Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

billion in 2018. 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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Lose those News Blues and Leave the Dark Side: The World’s Never Been Better

The Practical Leader

billion m³ between 2005 and 2018 to cover 22% of land area. Prices for battery packs have dropped 87% since 2010. Automakers have committed $225 billion for electric vehicles in the next five years. Global rates of measles have dropped by 2/3 from 2000 to 2018. Coals shipments in the U.S. In April, the U.S. did the same.

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

Harvard Business Review

Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Clayton Christensen and others argue that an incumbent’s failure has little to do with the newness or complexity of the technology. for Tesla as of June 30, 2018). In theory, investor incentives align with what is good for the firm.

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How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy

Harvard Business Review

” Backing this up is another group of asset managers who have committed $2 billion to invest in a newly created S&P Long-Term Value Index , a subset of companies doing things right. In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018. “Then get out of our stock.”