The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 17, 2023

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. Indeed, prior to the pandemic, the annual Global Risks report from the WEF cited a breakdown in international cooperation as one of the biggest risks facing the world. “We

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 23, 2020

A recent report from Dell into digital transformation highlighted the relative paucity of investment into artificial intelligence, with less than 30% of companies planning to invest in the technology. These firms tend to have not only higher R&D spending, but also larger market shares and bigger cash reserves. A complex picture.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 2, 2023

McKinsey & Company reported that in 2020 the global market for EDI-related efforts was estimated at $7.5bn, yet at the current rate, it will take another 151 years to close the global economic gender gap. This proved to be successful; the organisation won a transparency award for its 2018 EDI strategy. “As

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HR Digest

JULY 26, 2020

According to reports, ByteDance is pulling out of Hong Kong after it recently came under a new national security law issued by the Chinese government. 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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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?) Unfortunately, many of us have developed expertise in only one field (software engineering, information technology [IT], marketing, biotechnology, automobile manufacturing, the food industry, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

That was the main takeaway from our recent report, Rise of the Global Startup City , which documents the global state of startups and venture capital. 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. By all accounts, 2018 will be even bigger.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

billion in 2018, roughly half the world’s population. Yet even as we connect people and the world’s population rises 7 percent between 2010 and 2020, the number of working-age employees will actually decline in many industrialized nations. Bringing a new prescription drug to market, for example, now costs nearly $2.6

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