Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2012

For the past few decades, emerging technologies such as biotechnology, microelectronics, information technology and communications technologies have become central to the socioeconomic development of nations. These technologies improve productivity and facilitate better living standards when they penetrate into societies.

Information Technology 14

Information Technology Technology Information Trends 14

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. At the same time, the marketplace has become so fiercely competitive—and investors so demanding—that few are willing to take a flyer on an unproven technology.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Despite the East Coast roots of technology entrepreneurship and venture capital (VC), by the 1990s Silicon Valley had gained a major advantage over the Cambridge-Boston area. These policy differences fostered the emergence of a less loyal, more footloose talent pool in Silicon Valley. The same underlying technologies (e.g.,

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Drucker Software Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The conventional understanding of policy makers and academics is that the way forward for developing countries is to integrate into global value chains, mostly by carrying out low-value activities. Orchestrate public-private cooperation through robust policy development. For Mexico, I suggest you watch the avocado industry.

Cooper 14

Cooper Long-term Industry Health Care 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

And biotechnology and medical devices are among the leading areas for venture capital funding. Coordinating health care information technology requires government action, which was a decade slow in coming. Medicare payment policy favors doing more, not doing better. The first lays the blame at the door of the government.

Health Care 15

Health Care Biotechnology Mayo Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2018

’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. .

Education 8

Education Company Biotechnology Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Paul Kennedy's seminal Rise and Fall of the Great Powers captures the way technological and economic advances have converted into strategic advantage, and how failure to "lock in" that edge accelerates imperial decline. Technik , then, is the technological quotient of civilization. It pledges $1.5 The contrast between the U.N.'s

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 8