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Accelerators Need To Do More To Foster Connections

The Horizons Tracker

Incubators and accelerators have become highly pervasive around the world, as countries seek to cultivate the kind of innovations that drive economic growth. The research examined 56,000 patents granted between 1969 and 2012 from American universities with incubator programs. Making connections.

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Why Does Teach for America Spawn So Many Entrepreneurs?

Harvard Business Review

Question: What do education entrepreneurs Sarah Usdin , founder of New Schools for New Orleans, Mike Feinberg and David Levin, cofounders of KIPP Academy , and Michelle Rhee, founder of StudentsFirst , have in common? The question is whether TFA's seemingly prolific production of entrepreneurs is fact or simple hearsay.

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Bring Back the General Manager

Harvard Business Review

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. So that's where entrepreneurs and GM-types tend to migrate.