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

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How Can Innovation Be Better Disseminated?

The Horizons Tracker

in 2013, compared to 2.5% ” Effective communication Research from the EU’s OpenUP project highlights the crucial role effective communication of science and innovation plays in helping spread it more widely across society. Indeed, it might even require a new class of professionals who aim to communicate science effectively.

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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. million people employed as long-haul truck drivers in the U.S.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Panic of 1907 vs Great Recession of 2008

Strategy Driven

This year, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, and central bankers are taking a historical perspective. As the underwriting weaknesses of subprime portfolios became known, banks stopped lending to each other, paralyzing credit markets. Rockefeller and others to pony up enough cash to stabilize the markets.

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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. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. This fixed 2% fee structure creates the incentive to accumulate and manage more assets. The larger the fund, the larger the fee stream.

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Why Social Networks Still Haven’t Cracked the Job Search Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

On the face of it, that seems to be two entirely different markets, with Facebook at Work playing in the workplace productivity market (competing with the likes of Microsoft Office, Webex , and project management software) while LinkedIn is part of the headhunting industry. After all, Facebook’s $7.87

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Health Insurance Exchanges Fulfill Both Liberal and Conservative Goals

Harvard Business Review

The new health insurance market places—the exchanges set up under Obamacare—have become the hot health policy topic. Liberals believe that market pressures, by themselves, will be too weak to prevent hospitals, doctors, and other providers from sustaining what economists call ‘rent seeking’ activities. Will they work or won’t they?