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Tech Transfer Needed If Climate Targets Are To Be Met

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A recent paper from Tsinghua University highlights this divide and argues that there needs to be significant movement in terms of technology transfer between rich and poor countries if global climate targets are to be met. The costs involved in this effort are also significant, and amount to up to 4.1% of national GDP.

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What Prompts Investments In Energy Innovation

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Despite this growth, the researchers don’t believe the investment is sufficient to meet the Paris commitments, and argue that it would need to have doubled between 2010 and 2020 to have made a meaningful impact. In China, for instance, spending on fossil fuel innovation grew from just $90 million in 2001 to $1.673 billion in 2018.

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Why Deep Investment In Automation Results In More Jobs

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The researchers conducted a comprehensive analysis of the economic impact of industrial robots over 17 countries between 1993 and 2007 across 14 different industries. A second paper from LSE found that there was no real relation to the return of jobs after a recession, and the investment in automated technologies in a particular industry.

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Growing Support Among Patients And Doctors For Telemedicine

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Telehealth has long been a technology with considerable promise, that seemed to struggle for widespread adoption due as much to organizational inertia as any fundamental flaws in the technology itself. Opinions among doctors themselves tend to vary somewhat, depending in many cases on what the technology was used for.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

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Information is therefore derived from a collection of processed data where context and meaning have been added to disparate facts which allow for a more thorough analysis. Knowledge : Knowledge is information that has been refined by analysis such that it has been assimilated, tested and/or validated. They make bad decisions.

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

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Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies.

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Looking For Leadership

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link] ATIG Dear Mike, "I've found that 90% of problems companies have on-line are created by management, not technology" David Segal Why not E-leader ( participative) for better decision making to do the right thing ? We must slow down the technology speed and its consequences. Thanks, Sami impassioned Hi Mike.