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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. New research from IESE makes the case for corporate venturing to help rectify the situation and bring more academic excellence to market. Crossing the valley.

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Early Lessons from India’s Demonetization Experiment

Harvard Business Review

The original reason given for the drastic demonetization action was to expose the so-called “black” market, fueled by money that is illegally gained and undeclared for tax purposes. Innovation and Creativity Emerged Around Digital Payments. Here, the government’s innovative capacity shone through.

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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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The First Step to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S. manufacturers are taking notice.

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Africa’s Unique Opportunity to Promote Inclusive Growth

Harvard Business Review

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. But with robust growth rates and economies unburdened by legacy structures of the last century, Africans can innovate beyond what others are doing. Innovating away from past exclusion. China, and most countries of Western Europe.

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Priorities for Jumpstarting the U.S. Industrial Economy

Harvard Business Review

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

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Bringing Global Philanthropy Closer to Home

Harvard Business Review

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% growth in GDP. This economic growth has not only led to the development of a burgeoning middle-class in these markets, it has fueled an increase in the number of citizens actively engaging in philanthropy.