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Support For Democracy Depends How People Are Asked

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers examined data from the American National Election Studies in 2012 and 2016 to see how satisfied U.S. ” This study builds upon a theory that was initially proposed in the 1940s and has since amassed a substantial body of supporting literature. .”

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Entrepreneurship Suffers When Well-Paid Jobs Are Plentiful

The Horizons Tracker

A few years ago I wrote about innovation and entrepreneurship in Norway and Qatar. After all, our economy thrives on innovation, so if new businesses aren’t being created, that innovation is not as healthy as it might otherwise be. This underlines the decline in entrepreneurship in medicine, for instance, with just 31.4%

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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

We are proposing that an entrepreneurial opportunity exists objectively, but that does not guarantee that if you identify it and try to exploit it, you’ll turn the opportunity into profits,” the authors say. These efforts hope to succeed where Bringing Talent Home, which was an initiative run between 2010 and 2012, failed.

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15 Hours: A Common Sense Action Blueprint for Congress

Mills Scofield

Sam Gilman and Andrew Kaplan , college juniors started Common Sense Action in 2012 with one chapter. We spent two hours discussing the first of 12 potential policy areas – Social Security reform proposals. Starr Social Innovation Fellow for his work on Common Sense Action. What if our youth started to take government back?

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How Leaders Are Creating Engagement In Today’s Workplaces

Tanveer Naseer

This was the focus of HCI’s 2012 Employee Engagement Conference where business leaders from NIKE, Warner Bros. Specifically, how do we go about fostering an engaged workforce when we have fewer resources, more competition, and need to accomplish more in less time.

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How Big Data Can Shed Light On The Urban-Rural Divide

The Horizons Tracker

It’s a view that proposes a parallel growth trajectory, with the divide between cities largely remaining the same. The data shows that there was a substantial increase in inequality between smaller and larger cities between 1990 and 2012, with the larger cities showing a robust economic growth trajectory during that time.

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Innovative Ideas to Watch in 2012

Harvard Business Review

The following six ideas emerged this past year as powerful "innovation invitations." They'll be sources of — and resources for — innovation differentiation this coming year. If your organization doesn't find them innovatively interesting, then be careful: they may be wielded by the competitors you most dread.