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Think Global, Not Emerging Markets, Century

Harvard Business Review

Nokia's recent burning platform travails serve as an object lesson to companies trying to navigate a rapidly-changing global economy. In 2010, China overtook Japan to become the world's second largest R&D spender (in purchasing power parity terms) after the U.S. Haiyan Wang is the managing partner of the China India Institute.

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How the Geography of Startups and Innovation Is Changing

Harvard Business Review

But as with so many aspects of American economic ingenuity, high-tech startups have now truly gone global. cities continue to dominate the global landscape, including the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Boston, and Los Angeles, but the rest of the world is gaining ground rapidly. Globalization. A number of U.S.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). A New Name and a Unique Brand Identity.

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

Our soon ending year, 2010, has been fascinating. I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists filled the void in some sectors of the world economy.

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Big Companies Can Unleash Innovation, Rather than Shackle It

Harvard Business Review

Here's why: the innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale allows big companies to shift from shackling innovation to unleashing it. Healthy Heart's first implant occurred in September 2010. Consider Medtronic's innovative effort Healthy Heart for All.

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How U.S. Businesses Can Succeed in India in 2015

Harvard Business Review

Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Douglas Leone of Sequoia Capital, told the Economic Times of India in October , “We could not be more thrilled. billion in 2010, predicting it would grow at 20% a year for a decade. Today there appears to a second gold rush to India. ’s branded generic-medicine unit in India for $3.7

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. Don''t go looking to public officials for help in growing your venture ten times bigger. It is hell to manage.". Stay off of ventures'' balance sheets — and get onto their income statements.