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Innovation Thrives Despite Piracy

The Horizons Tracker

After all, when people could get your core offering for free, not only would that harm your income but it would discourage the industry from producing content and stifle innovation. Research from the University of Southern California explains why piracy wasn’t the death knell of innovation so many feared. Thriving creativity.

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Morning Advantage: Disruptive Innovation Made Easy

Harvard Business Review

for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth. PwC says four forces will continue to slow the rise in medical cost trend in 2013: 1. Pharmaceutical patent expirations are increasing the use of cheaper generic drugs. Growth in health care spending in the United States has slowed considerably since 2009.

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Morning Advantage: Disruptive Innovation Made Easy

Harvard Business Review

for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth. PwC says four forces will continue to slow the rise in medical cost trend in 2013: 1. Pharmaceutical patent expirations are increasing the use of cheaper generic drugs. Growth in health care spending in the United States has slowed considerably since 2009.

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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In pharmaceuticals, the largest company, Pfizer, is the result of decades of mergers. When a company had dozens of potential competitors in various geographic regions, there was an incentive to innovate before the other guy does.

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CEOs Should Get Out of the Saddle Before They’re Pushed Out

Harvard Business Review

Recent events have seen a rash of the departures from large corporates: Steve Ballmer from MicroSoft, Jeremy Levin from Teva Pharmaceutical, and Thorsten Heins from Blackberry. And a 2013 study by Xueming Luo, Vamsi K. Under her reign, on 1 November 2013, it closed at £1,498.00. So it’s consistent with market forces.

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Health Care Becomes Entrepreneurial (Finally)

Harvard Business Review

Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012. While we are only in the early days of the open data movement, innovative uses of data will empower new approaches to improving outcomes.

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The Sequestration Cuts that Are Harming Health Care

Harvard Business Review

noted the irony that because of sequester cuts, NIH funding was reduced for the research that resulted in Yale’s James Rothman sharing in the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Cuts to 2013 budget : $285 Million or 5%. Cuts to 2013 budget: $11.08 Cuts to 2013 budget : $209 Million or 5%. Leading Health Care Innovation.