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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. Government officials need to focus on embedding energy innovation in effective industrial policy strategies to be able to turn innovation into competitive advantages.”. billion in 2001 to $20.1

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Your company might ask you to delete TikTok from phone

HR Digest

A statement by company spokeswoman Kristin Brown later stated, ‘There is no change to our policies right now concerning TikTok.’ TikTok was first launched for the Chinese market and later launched in iOS and Android in the year 2017 for markets outside China.

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The Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2010

Harvard Business Review

Here's my attempt to capture what I see as the most important stories affecting the greening of business in 2010. can't get its act together, the world can't create global policies, and thus the Cancun meeting last week resulted in some nice agreements to raise funds for adaptation — arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, anyone?

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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%. By all accounts, 2018 will be even bigger.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. The Economy in 2018. percentage points to productivity growth in the period 2010 to 2014.

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To Control Health Care Costs, U.S. Employers Should Form Purchasing Alliances

Harvard Business Review

Competing for scarce labor in a tight market, they will have trouble continuing to shift medical bills onto employees as they have for several decades. To address these challenges, they will have to band together in purchasing coalitions that give them the local market power to force health systems to reform. Tim Robberts/Getty Images.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. The digital talent market in the UK is already tight. billion as compared to $4.4