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Searching for Health Care's Entrepreneurial Spirit

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. And biotechnology and medical devices are among the leading areas for venture capital funding. Medicare payment policy favors doing more, not doing better.

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Unglamorous Freelance Manufacturers Could Boost U.S. Competitiveness

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Second, the bigger CMOs tend to have specialized skills and knowledge that can help their partners innovate. For example, in biotechnology, a field in which the U.S. So what's needed is a policy approach to encouraging the growth of CMOs. A policy focus on CMOs would require a new American mind-set, however. In the U.S.,

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50 Laboratories of Opportunity

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could learn from — is to test policy proposals before rolling them out nationally. When problems surface, the policy can be fine-tuned, modified, and re-tested before it is tried out on a wider scale. policy making. One thing that the Chinese do quite well — and that the U.S. But not in U.S.

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You Don’t Have to Be in Silicon Valley to Build the Next Great Internet Company

Harvard Business Review

If we want to have a strong economy, we need to make sure we’re tilting the playing field in favor of entrepreneurs that are trying to challenge the status quo, innovate, create new products and services, disrupt existing industry, usher in a new way. They are fueling innovation and growth. A restaurant might start.

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Companies Can Address Talent Shortages by Partnering with Educators

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’s “once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world.” .” This groundbreaking report, commissioned by President Ronald Reagan, concluded that the U.S.’s ” Unfortunately, this goal hasn’t been met. .

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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

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French pharmaceutical company Sanofi recently acquired Boston-based Genzyme to tap into America's intellectual capital in biotechnology. America fosters risk-taking and innovation by entrepreneurs who become global leaders. Nestle, Unilever, and Novartis have several business units based in the U.S. Visa restrictions also limit U.S.

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business Review

The Institute for Applied Cancer Science at MD Anderson (IACS) is exploring revolutionary new cures and the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) is working to revive the US production capacity. Innovating the Innovation Process. A National Innovation Ecosystem.