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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 Ready Are Companies For The Post-Pandemic World?

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, during 2020, GDP in advanced economies plummeted, with many businesses having to shut for prolonged periods, and nearly all having to rapidly adapt to the changing conditions. There was then a gap to access to finance and a non-supportive policy environment. Becoming future-ready. Organizational agility.

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How Corporate Venturing Can Help Startups Overcome The Valley Of Death

The Horizons Tracker

It looks at everything from the legal infrastructure, the ease of creating a business, the quality of academia and availability of finance. The remaining 5% are believed to contribute to over 40% of the region’s GDP, so there is a clear incentive to do much better at commercializing the exceptional research being done across Europe.

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How Bad Leadership Spurs Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

Year after year, Gallup reports that most employees are unhappy at work, and that the number one reason for dissatisfaction is their boss. In fact, America owes much of its recent growth, technological innovation, and socioeconomic progress, to inept managers. Because most managers are simply unbearable.

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China's Impending Slowdown Just Means It's Joining the Big Leagues

Harvard Business Review

to 8% GDP growth rate already is a significant slowdown from the nearly 10% annual pace at which China''s economy had been growing until last year. In the first, published in Asian Economic Papers last year, they reported a marked tendency toward slower economic growth when per capita incomes reach around $17,000 a year (in 2005 prices).

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Small and Young Businesses Are Especially Vulnerable to Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. These firms were more than twice as likely to report that their access to credit had decreased since before Sandy. Younger firms were especially likely to report that their interest rates increased after the storm. In the U.S.,

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How China’s Government Helps — and Hinders — Innovation

Harvard Business Review

By all accounts, the Chinese state is on all-out drive to move the country up the technological ladder. Yet, along other dimensions, the state is unwittingly hindering China’s emergence as a technological giant. Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% in 2000 to 2.0% respectively.