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How Corporate Venturing Can Help Startups Overcome The Valley Of Death

The Horizons Tracker

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. Where the continent tends to fail, however, is in the commercialization of that research. Crossing the valley.

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Amazing AI Facts That Could Change The World

Strategy Driven

PWC believes global GDP will rise by 14% by 2030 due to AI. Venture capital for AI between 2013-2017 increased by 4.5%. China has earmarked artificial intelligence as a key factor in their success going forward… and as a result of this they will look to be one of the dominating countries in AI in 2020 onwards.

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Are CEOs Really India’s Leading Export?

Harvard Business Review

A systematic analysis of mid-2013 data on the world’s largest firms by revenue, the Fortune Global 500, shows that at that time only three non-Indian firms were led by Indian CEOs: Arcelor Mittal (Lakshmi Mittal), Deutsche Bank (Anshu Jain), and PepsiCo (Indra Nooyi). Indians have indeed gone out and achieved great managerial success abroad.

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The Three Reforms China Must Enact: Land, Social Services, and Taxes

Harvard Business Review

The plan is expected to outline policies intended to ensure that China continues to see average annual GDP growth of 7% through this decade, the growth rate required to meet Premier Li Keqiang’s stated goal of doubling GDP by 2020. If the party leaders do tackle these reforms, success is far from assured. What Needs to Change.

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As Emerging Markets Slow, Firms Search for “New” BRICs

Harvard Business Review

For example, on the Indonesian archipelago, supply chain and distribution logistics present serious challenges — with logistics costs at 24% of GDP, compared with the regional average range of 9-11%. However, there are some risks. Difficulty in distribution is not unique to Asia and reflects a global trend.

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Is Europe’s Economy Really Sick?

Harvard Business Review

It gives us a reasonable sense of how successful at innovation different countries and regions are. But in 2013 it was comfortably beaten by Singapore and Hong Kong and by four other countries: Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland. The US is usually seen as a hotbed of innovation. And it is certainly in the top ten.

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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. As a group, the largest U.S.