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How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Green Technologies

The Horizons Tracker

The production of goods and services with smaller carbon footprints, also known as green technologies, is on the rise and presents numerous economic opportunities. “We are at the beginning of a technological revolution based on green technologies,” the authors explain.

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How to Win with AI and Automation

HR Digest

Developments in digital technologies, inclusive of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, are estimated by some to create the potential for a tremendous reduction in the volume of work. Others see scope of digital technologies to transform the quality of work. EMBRACING AUTOMATION AND AI RIGHT NOW.

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When You’re Tied Up In Supply Chains, You Need A Strategy

Strategy Driven

In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. The best way to do this is to use scanning technology. Automation technology has come on leaps and bound in recent years. Automate Everything.

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How Big a Competitive Threat Is China, Really?

Harvard Business Review

The United States, which needed allies against the Soviet Union, not only tolerated Japanese protectionism but also transferred advanced technology to Japan and subsidized Japanese firms. In short, Japan enjoyed asymmetric openness — access to foreign technology and export markets but protection from foreign competition.

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A Plan to Revitalize Greece

Harvard Business Review

Currently, the annual expenditures for research and development (R&D) amount to 0.67% of Greece’s GDP. to 3% of their GDP. And Tropical SA is focused on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Developing networks between research and business , and engaging all partners to cooperate in the innovation chain.

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The Flaws in Obama’s Cybersecurity Initiative

Harvard Business Review

He also calls for better cooperation between companies and the government when tackling cybercrime. For example, the gains that IT contributed to the GDP of the Netherlands in 2014 were wiped out by the even larger cost of cybercrime. That’s bigger than the GDP of 75 countries combined. The problems are certainly real.

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Creativity Lessons from Charles Dickens and Steve Jobs

Harvard Business Review

And yet federally funded research and development — creativity, institutionalized — is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s. Creativity is the most essential skill for navigating an increasingly complex world — or so said 1,500 CEOs across 60 countries in a recent survey by IBM.