Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Poor countries will become R&D labs for breakthrough innovations in such diverse fields as housing, transportation, energy, health care, entertainment, telecommunications, financial services, clean water, and many others. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Accompanying these peer economy companies are others (like Zipcar) which simply leverage technology and lower transaction costs to make flexible renting a viable alternative to asset acquisition.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Asia's largest IT service provider has built what it calls a global Co-Innovation Network (COIN), which includes technology partnerships with startups and VC firms in Silicon Valley as well as academic tie-ups with leading American universities such as MIT, Georgia Tech, and Stanford.

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