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Why Older Entrepreneurs Have an Edge

Harvard Business Review

At a time when he was really down on his luck, he considered jobs he never imagined earlier in his career, like becoming a night watchman. Charlton and Reid decided to launch TechTown, a nonprofit business incubator, which went on to spark a small renaissance in entrepreneurship in midtown Detroit.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

could launch a program of industry fellowships to pay recent engineering and business retirees to help SMMs as well as to “coach” next generation of manufacturing start-ups, business incubators, and technology accelerators. Finally, there’s a straightforward way to help SMMs boost their own expertise: The U.S.