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Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

private-sector research and development. businesses appear to be the result of both labor-saving technological changes and the outsourcing of parts of production to independent contractors in low-cost foreign locations. In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% private-sector jobs and produced 28.7% GDP while undertaking 40.9% of all U.S.

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How Companies Can Help Rebuild America’s Common Resources

Harvard Business Review

Every company benefits from an educated populace. Every company needs infrastructure – roads, bridges, ports – and every company benefits from the new technologies made possible by basic scientific research. Starting around 1980, however, shifts in technology, geopolitics, and governance changed the game.