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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business Review

Companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix, with their digital sophistication, bona fide algorithmic innovation, and commitment to human capital development, seem positioned to lead selvesware revolutions. A digital simulation of a robot could be connected to its real-world physical counterpart — a thermostat, say.

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There’s No Good Alternative to Investing in R&D

Harvard Business Review

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. For one thing, small-company innovation is often more visible.

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Research Highlights The Innovative Potential Of Immigrants

The Horizons Tracker

Furthermore, during the period examined, immigrants were responsible for a quarter of the total economic value of patents granted, as determined by the stock market’s response to new patents. The high-skilled immigrants we have in the U.S.