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Tech Transfer Needed If Climate Targets Are To Be Met

The Horizons Tracker

A common sticking point in progressing climate negotiations is getting developed and developing nations to work together. C is exhausting while we need to give sufficient consideration of global equality of socioeconomic developments,” they explain. “Global carbon space for limiting 1.5°C

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders.

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Embedding EDI as KPIs: The organisations using inclusion metrics as performance indicators

Chartered Management Institute

One Chartered Manager has developed a way to measure and monitor EDI Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) has been at the forefront of board agendas for several years, and rightly so. They also have a 20% higher rate of innovation, according to a Boston Consulting Group study.

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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, since the country’s independence in 1991, it has focused almost exclusively on entrepreneurship as a means to develop what has been described as the most digital state in the world. The scheme aims to ensure that entrepreneurial competencies are developed at all school levels. ” Broad horizons. “We Talent shortages.

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Making The Cloud Sustainable

The Horizons Tracker

This is highlighted by the fact that despite the volume of work done by data centers rising by 500% between 2010 and 2018, energy consumption only grew by 6%. The servers were initially installed in 2018 and were connected to land by cable. The sector has made considerable strides in recent years to become more energy efficient.

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How the Geography of Startups and Innovation Is Changing

Harvard Business Review

We’re used to thinking of high-tech innovation and startups as generated and clustered predominantly in fertile U.S. The annual number of venture capital deals expanded from 8,500 in 2010 to 14,800 in 2017, for an increase of 73% in just seven years. By all accounts, 2018 will be even bigger. Jakal Pan/Getty Images.

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The Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2010

Harvard Business Review

Here's my attempt to capture what I see as the most important stories affecting the greening of business in 2010. Smart companies like Hitachi are trying to find solutions, such as its new plan to develop rare earth recycling technologies. Energy innovation will be the order of the day (e.g., China, China, China.