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Longer And More Complex Supply Chains Benefit Economies

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. “The more steps in the process, the more opportunity there is for innovation,” the researchers explain. It does not explain everything that happens, but the principle can be seen operating.” “Industries with greater supply chains do better. We have been able to predict this over long periods.

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How Skills Will Be Crucial As We Adapt To The Post-Covid World

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Last year online learning platform Coursera released their first Global Skills Index to try and understand the changing nature of skills development around the world. This surge not only reflects the ongoing interest in digital skills development, but also some of the softer skills that I’ve identified as key in past articles.

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How Managerial Quality Affects Energy Usage In Manufacturing Firms

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In many ways, it seems like something of a no brainer for the sector to target emissions, as making their operations more efficient has productivity benefits as well as environmental ones. of global GDP. Nowhere is this more evident than in the manufacturing sector, which is one of the primary producers of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Low-Skilled Immigration Is Needed To Overcome The Western Worker Crunch

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Ignoring the need While politicians increasingly like to adopt a hard line against immigration, the reality is that most developed countries are in dire need of it. Indeed, while Dr. Ugur Sahin was lauded as an immigrant who helped to develop the Covid vaccine, as a car factory worker, his father would have received far fewer laurels.

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Is Entrepreneurship As Popular As We Think?

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Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States.

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Is The Single Market Preventing Digital Champions In Europe?

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They suggest that while the last 30 years have been typified by increasing Asian consumption and integration into the global flow of trade and innovation, the coming decades will see Asian economies driving and determining the direction of these flows, with the region set to account for 50% of global GDP by 2040. Digital dominance.

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How to Become Truly Social

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The companies that develop the deepest connections will generate more value for their customers and employees (and shareholders). A more human operating system puts humanity, rather than rules, at its core and trusts employees to act, inspired by values, mission and purpose, as opposed to being coerced.

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