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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

in 2013, compared to 2.5% This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States. A recent exploration of the German economy by the University of Maastricht showed just how big a problem this is, with productivity growth just 0.3%

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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. A number of cities, in particular, have become hotbeds of innovation, in no small part because of the fiscal strains they face.