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The More Climate Skeptics There Are, the Fewer Climate Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

But how does the presence of climate skeptics affect the market for climate-related innovation? The higher the market demand for a drug, the greater the probability that at least one drug maker conducts basic research. To reduce flood damage to real estate, we will need architectural innovations. and in developing nations.

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What the U.S. Economy Needs More Than Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

He also mentioned a plan for some sort of a stimulus to technological innovation, starting these manufacturing centers [like the one in Youngstown, Ohio]. But a jobs strategy has to be based on aggregate demand throughout the economy. That will make a contribution marginally, in my view. But a lot of them will be in services.

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