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The Vital Secondary Market For Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

Despite concerns that the pace of innovation has been slowing in recent decades, 2020 saw over 1,000 patents registered per day in the United States alone. Of course, many of these patents will be useless, but some will be hugely profitable novelties that signal a vital marketplace for ideas. The secondary market for innovation.

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New Study Finds Online Courses Worsen Inequality

The Horizons Tracker

The online learning market had been growing for some time already, but this forced transition nonetheless caused concern that it would widen inequalities as poorer students without the means to learn effectively at home would be left behind. As such, when classes were offered online, it only reduced participation in person by 8%.

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Master-Class Series Aims To Help British Entrepreneurs Succeed In China

The Horizons Tracker

Since Alibaba was founded in 1999 it has been helping to provide a gateway into the Chinese market for people who may otherwise have lacked the expertise and the contacts to effectively enter it. The course, which is free to attend, also gives participants access to leaders from both Alibaba themselves and from across China. “The

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The Increasing Pressures On The Middle Class

The Horizons Tracker

The rise of the middle class has arguably been the key social trend of the last 100 years, with the growth underpinning a host of social and economic trends. The trend is not guaranteed to continue however, with a new report from the OECD highlighting the pressure currently being placed on the middle class in a host of high-income countries.

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7 Ways Young Leaders Can Be More Innovative

Joseph Lalonde

Young leaders are innovative. Young leaders are innovative. But young leaders can be even more innovative (and influential) with a few tweaks. But even before the light bulb people couldn’t say Edison wasn’t innovative. He was innovative. You better be if you’re wanting to be innovative.

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Crystal Clear: Pioneering the Last 60 years of Display Technology Innovation & Looking Into the Future

Strategy Driven

Just take a look at laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and other handheld devices, which were all possible thanks to display technology innovation. Display innovation can also be found in factory equipment, oil rigs, trains, trucks and boats and airplanes. Other unique display applications include displays embedded in a credit card.

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Are Rural Communities (Untapped) Hotbeds Of Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

Traditionally, thinking has it that innovation is something concentrated in large, urban areas. Of course, recent years have also seen a stark social, economic and political divide between these large cities and smaller towns and rural areas, with many such places feeling left behind by both globalization and the political classes.