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How Can Innovation Be Better Disseminated?

The Horizons Tracker

In a recent article, I highlighted some of the challenges involved in translating investment in technology and innovation into productivity improvements across the economy. In an age of smartphones, AI, and genetics, it seems crazy to think that the record sums invested in technology aren’t making more of an impact.

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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

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 And When Automation May Affect Long-Haul Trucking

The Horizons Tracker

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. Our results suggest that the impacts of automation may not happen all at once.

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How Serious Is Japan’s Labor Shortage?

HR Digest

Japan, known for its technological advancements and economic prowess, is facing a significant challenge – a labor shortage. In 2013, Japan raised the retirement age from 60 to 65, allowing employees to continue working if they choose to do so. What can Japan do to solve its labor crisis?

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. Managers are no exception, especially when incentives favor finding causal relationships between variables that are difficult to measure, such as changes in leadership style and team performance.

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It’s Time to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. And talented Millennial employees are voting with their feet by leaving laggard companies behind.