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It’s Time To Stop VCs Driving Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

Famous research from Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom illustrates the difficulties we face in keeping the wheels of innovation turning. Bloom illustrates that while we’re spending more on research and innovation than ever before, we’re getting diminishing returns for that investment. Engines of creation.

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10 TED Talks to Help You Reimagine Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Thousands of very lucky individuals are seated in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center are at TED 2013. In the spirit of TED 2013, here are 10 amazing TED Talks that have helped me think differently about what business can be, how to be a better leader, and how to become a better global citizen. It's happening right now.

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Don't Draw the Wrong Lessons from Better Place's Bust

Harvard Business Review

While every other player in the electric car space was focused on innovating individual pieces — vehicles, batteries, charge spots — Better Place''s strategy was unique in innovating the larger puzzle to deliver an affordable drive-anywhere, anytime solution. Note to Tesla owners: you are not the mass market).