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How Tax Policy Encourages Firms To Invest In New Technology

The Horizons Tracker

While the flurry of stories on the topic seems to have accelerated in recent years, especially since Frey and Osborne’s notorious 2013 study of the topic, the evidence to date is that robots generally haven’t been “taking our jobs” at all. Complementary investment.

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How Corporate Venturing Can Help Startups Overcome The Valley Of Death

The Horizons Tracker

It looks at everything from the legal infrastructure, the ease of creating a business, the quality of academia and availability of finance. The remaining 5% are believed to contribute to over 40% of the region’s GDP, so there is a clear incentive to do much better at commercializing the exceptional research being done across Europe.

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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. This fixed 2% fee structure creates the incentive to accumulate and manage more assets.

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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. When a company had dozens of potential competitors in various geographic regions, there was an incentive to innovate before the other guy does.

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Health Care Becomes Entrepreneurial (Finally)

Harvard Business Review

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012.

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Health Insurance Exchanges Fulfill Both Liberal and Conservative Goals

Harvard Business Review

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. Exchanges could also create incentives for insurers to encourage or require providers to apply research findings from analyses of comparative effectiveness.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle. And that really is on the backs of marketing.”

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