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The Problems With Incubators, and How to Solve Them

Harvard Business Review

This knowledge gap, I have come to believe, is best filled by savvy incubators. However, there are over 7,500 business incubators around the world. The first business incubator in the U.S. opened in 1959 and is still operating. Most of them fail. Well, it isn''t. Success is More Than Funding.

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

Harvard Business Review

It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow. Today, US firms have less than 2% of market share in the multi-billion automotive lithium-ion battery industry. It’s that the U.S. based companies.