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How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Green Technologies

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The production of goods and services with smaller carbon footprints, also known as green technologies, is on the rise and presents numerous economic opportunities. However, developing countries may not be able to take advantage of these opportunities unless their national governments and the international community take decisive action.

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Business Model Innovation Will Be Key To Emerge From Covid Well

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A new paper from the University of Cambridge argues that business model innovation will be key to emerging from the pandemic in the best economic health. The authors argue that when combined with the adoption of new digital technologies, economies can achieve productivity growth of around 3.5%, versus the 1% that is predicted currently. .

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Chinese Competition Has Raised Innovation In America and Europe

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It’s often said that necessity is the mother of all invention, and that certainly seems to be the case during Covid, with new data from Accenture revealing that innovation has flourished during the pandemic. Born out of disaster and necessity comes opportunity; the pandemic has sparked a new wave of innovation. Unusual quarters.

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Longer And More Complex Supply Chains Benefit Economies

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“The more steps in the process, the more opportunity there is for innovation,” the researchers explain. The authors argue that economies will usually achieve greater economic growth, especially during its manufacturing stage, before relaxing to a slower growth period as it becomes a more developed economy.

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The Global Nature Of Corporate Venturing

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Corporate venturing has taken off in large part due to its ability to provide firms with a window into the new and disruptive without them having to develop it in-house. The researchers developed a detailed dataset of Chinese corporate venturing activity in the latter part of the 2010s to try and uncover any cross-industry patterns. .

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Tech Transfer Needed If Climate Targets Are To Be Met

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A common sticking point in progressing climate negotiations is getting developed and developing nations to work together. of national GDP. This suggests that there will have to be trade-offs made with poverty reduction goals, and the researchers believe that technology transfer of low-carbon technologies could greatly assist.

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Post-Covid Cities Need To Be Smart Cities

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Concern propagated , however, that the very technologies that enabled us all to work from home would mean that we could, in theory, work from anywhere , which means we wouldn’t need to be tied to cities in order to work for companies based there. For instance, pre-Covid, Tokyo alone was estimated to have a GDP of around $1.6

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