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The EU Privacy Ruling Won’t Hurt Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Google has asserted that this will adversely affect innovation, but those claims are premature. The EU’s human rights-centered views have been influencing global standards and privacy practices in the Middle East for decades, and businesses have adapted to more restrictive markets, like China and North Korea , and thrived.

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. In other words, the advantages of size gave some companies a bit of safe harbor. All in all, scale has provided some immense strategic benefits to large companies around the world — protecting many from entrepreneurial innovations that would otherwise threaten.

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The Great Firewall of America

Harvard Business Review

It would have been tough to top PROTECT IP, but they've managed to do it. It contains provisions that will chill innovation. If they don't, they lose their safe harbor provisions. And think that it won't chill innovation? Shut it down every time it doesn't fit someone's business model? And for what?

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?Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty

Harvard Business Review

But by jumping on the buyback bandwagon — something Steve Jobs refused to do — Apple’s current top management has shown the same lack of strategic vision that has undermined many once-great American companies, including Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Motorola. Apple Economy Innovation'