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How Corporate Venturing Can Help Startups Overcome The Valley Of Death

The Horizons Tracker

Each year INSEAD produce a global innovation index, which chronicles the abilities of various countries around the world to support the creation of innovation. The paper highlights how corporate venturing is a rapidly expanding endeavor, and corporate investments in startups have grown from 980 in 2013 to 3,232 per year today.

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How Managerial Quality Affects Energy Usage In Manufacturing Firms

The Horizons Tracker

Fossil fuel subsidies are hugely important, as they amounted to nearly $5 trillion around the world in 2013, or 6.5% of global GDP. Driving change. This has to be set alongside the high environmental costs in many of the countries in the study, but particularly those with a tradition of energy intensive industry, such as Ukraine.

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Complimentary Resource – Economist: Smart SMBs Fine-Tuning the Engines of Growth

Strategy Driven

To achieve growth, economies the world over rely on small businesses to create jobs, increase competition and spur innovation. In the latest forecasts from The Economist Intelligence Unit, global GDP growth for 2013 has been revised down to 3.1% – only slightly up on GDP growth for 2012 (2.9%). All rights reserved.

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What a Study of 33 Countries Found About Aging Populations and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

And growth reduces the government’s debt-to-GDP ratio, which facilitates and cheapens future government borrowing. The problem is that population aging is itself a cause for a decline in both GDP and per-capita GDP. The active labor force declines over time, and so does GDP.

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Non-Discrimination Laws Make U.S. States More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

In 2013 Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, urged the U.S. He argued that it would not only protect the rights of a diverse workforce but also foster innovation: “Embracing people’s individuality is a matter of basic human dignity and civil rights. state-level ENDAs on corporate patent-based innovation. Currently, the U.S.

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Is Europe’s Economy Really Sick?

Harvard Business Review

What exactly are the issues that people have with Europe’s innovativeness? Half or more of those surveyed believed that European innovators were good, even world class, and that they had good business and technological skills. Let’s look at innovativeness. The US is usually seen as a hotbed of innovation.

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Early Lessons from India’s Demonetization Experiment

Harvard Business Review

The existence of this parallel economy is a substantial drag on the Indian economy: According to recently released data , only about 1% of Indians paid taxes on their earnings in 2013. Innovation and Creativity Emerged Around Digital Payments. Here, the government’s innovative capacity shone through. instead of 7%.

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