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Is The Covid Recession Starving Startups Of Talent?

The Horizons Tracker

The incumbent [companies], just by nature of having more cash or by being more established, are perceived safer during the crisis, and suddenly have a unique advantage in terms of attracting talent.”. Safe haven. Instead, they are just as likely to seek safe harbor as anyone else in times of turbulence.

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Five Tips for Coping with Uncertainty — and Finding Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

debt crisis before deciding what and where to invest or whether to hire. Europeans wait for a resolution to financial woes from the south affecting the north, and in a safe, sane Nordic country, Norway, fear rises from a seemingly insane terrorist shooting that cost nearly a hundred lives. Safe harbors have uncertainty, too.

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The Great Firewall of America

Harvard Business Review

It contains provisions that will chill innovation. If they don't, they lose their safe harbor provisions. Third, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), introduced over a decade ago and designed to balance IP rights with the technology innovation that has boomed in the US, is being modified to the point of being lopsided.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

In addition to the ones regularly in the news, I have argued earlier in HBR that there is a fundamental crisis unfolding over the longer term: the continent is suffering from a “digital recession” – a loss of momentum in its evolution toward a digital economy. Innovation Hubs Will Fragment. billion R&D fund ).