The Horizons Tracker
APRIL 28, 2022
Indeed, data reveal that rates of entrepreneurship have been in perpetual decline across the United States between 1978 and 2011. Indeed, globally venture capital investments are at a record high, with data suggesting that around $300 billion was invested in the first half of 2021, which is more than the entirety of 2020.
The Horizons Tracker
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. By contrast, employment at big firms rose from 51% to 57% of the overall workforce in the same timeframe.
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 29, 2012
billion , entrepreneurial companies with technology at their core have disrupted entire industries and threatened or eliminated incumbents. A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2018
Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 16, 2016
Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. By the mid-1980’s, the American semiconductor industry seemed like it was doomed.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
Last year, venture capital investments in clean tech totaled a mere $2.8 billion in 2011, despite the fact that venture capital funding overall has been increasing. Global clean energy investment also peaked in 2011, at $317 billion, and was down 20% from that peak in 2013. billion, according to Dow Jones.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 27, 2017
This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).
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