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Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

Qatar have attempted to overcome this via the creation of the Qatar Foundation in 1995, which aimed to unlock the human potential of the nation via education, innovation and entrepreneurship. in 2011), this hides the fact that much of the other half of the economy is heavily reliant on the oil and gas sector for its revenues.

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

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It’s an argument that Haas Business School’s Henry Chesborough wholly agrees with, and outlines the case for a more open way of innovating as the solution to this productivity paradox in his latest book, Open Innovation Results. Innovation dissemination , which is the movement of these ideas and technologies into mainstream usage.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

could become the world’s largest oil producer in 2018, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia. As global oil producers work at cross-purposes, the industry’s traditional boom-bust cycle is being replaced by faster, shallower price rotations based on changes in production. Analysts have predicted that U.S. The soaring U.S.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. According to the Consumer Electronics Association , drone shipments will increase from 250,000 units in 2014 to nearly a million by 2018.

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The Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2010

Harvard Business Review

Unfortunately for every other country, this is a global story. 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? Looking Forward to 2011. When the U.S.

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Using Big Data to Make Wiser Medical Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Our IT leaders also served on Obama Administration committees that wrote requirements for patient-generated health data into 2018 federal health care IT regulations, thereby ensuring the concept’s longevity. In December 2011, my wife was diagnosed with stage IIIA breast cancer with a specific type of tumor. Precision medicine.

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Competing in the Huge Digital Economies of China and India

Harvard Business Review

The global digital economy crossed an important milestone recently: the number of internet users in two countries — China, with just over 800 million users, and India, with 500 million users – surpassed the aggregate number of internet users across 37 OECD countries combined. Jeff Greenberg/Getty Images. hours per day.