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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

No doubt many would argue that is indeed the case, and will point to the way technologies from the smartphone to CRISPR are opening up new ways of living and working. in 2013, compared to 2.5% Support to scale up, not just to start up. Technology at scale.

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What Business Can Learn from Government

Harvard Business Review

With Washington mired in gridlock, local governments are being left “to grapple with super-sized economic, social, and environmental challenges,” Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution has asserted. That a place like South Bend has been able to cultivate this kind of bottom-up innovation makes sense.