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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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The Danger of Turning Cynical About Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

Reports of an entrepreneur trying to teach a homeless man to code and, most recently, of one ranting publicly against the homeless haven’t helped. By this logic, there’s no reason to applaud the growing number of graduates from top universities opting for jobs in startups and tech rather than finance.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. of GDP, compares poorly with that of the U.S. How has Europe dealt with the situation? position.

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