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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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Investing In AI Helps Big Firms Get Bigger

The Horizons Tracker

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. By facilitating the rise of the ‘superstar’ firms, the new technology is leading to increases in industry concentration.”.

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

The Practical Leader

” The following year we reported, “ Despite Dire Headlines, the World is Getting Much, Much Better.” billion m³ between 2005 and 2018 to cover 22% of land area. Prices for battery packs have dropped 87% since 2010. Global rates of measles have dropped by 2/3 from 2000 to 2018. Coals shipments in the U.S.

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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

These efforts hope to succeed where Bringing Talent Home, which was an initiative run between 2010 and 2012, failed. Indeed, half of the respondents to the 2018 European Social Survey thought that people of different races or ethnic groups should not be allowed into the country. ” Broad horizons. Boosting digital literacy.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. In contrast, Musk cares about customer needs as well but only at a high level; he picks what he perceives as big important needs that haven’t been met because of technology constraints and is more of a “technology first” innovator.

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

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. Because it takes an enormous amount of money to find a truly revolutionary technology or product.

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business Review

in early 2018, according to Moody’s. Before 2018, it had the three standard board committees — governance, compensation, and audit — plus a technology and risk committee to cover important areas such as product risk, cybersecurity, and technological innovation. in 2013 to 3.7