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Tech Transfer Needed If Climate Targets Are To Be Met

The Horizons Tracker

A recent paper from Tsinghua University highlights this divide and argues that there needs to be significant movement in terms of technology transfer between rich and poor countries if global climate targets are to be met. The costs involved in this effort are also significant, and amount to up to 4.1% of national GDP.

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What Prompts Investments In Energy Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

billion in 2018. In China, for instance, spending on fossil fuel innovation grew from just $90 million in 2001 to $1.673 billion in 2018. Technological competition with China also matters, as it creates an incentive to invest in future growth sectors where China has taken a lead—including various clean energy technologies.”.

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Investing In AI Helps Big Firms Get Bigger

The Horizons Tracker

A recent report from Dell into digital transformation highlighted the relative paucity of investment into artificial intelligence, with less than 30% of companies planning to invest in the technology. By facilitating the rise of the ‘superstar’ firms, the new technology is leading to increases in industry concentration.”.

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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

These efforts hope to succeed where Bringing Talent Home, which was an initiative run between 2010 and 2012, failed. Indeed, half of the respondents to the 2018 European Social Survey thought that people of different races or ethnic groups should not be allowed into the country. ” Broad horizons. Boosting digital literacy.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. In contrast, Musk cares about customer needs as well but only at a high level; he picks what he perceives as big important needs that haven’t been met because of technology constraints and is more of a “technology first” innovator.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business Review

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. You would be wrong.

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When Companies Want to Innovate, But Investors Won’t Let Them

Harvard Business Review

Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Clayton Christensen and others argue that an incumbent’s failure has little to do with the newness or complexity of the technology. for Tesla as of June 30, 2018). In theory, investor incentives align with what is good for the firm.