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How Tax Policy Encourages Firms To Invest In New Technology

The Horizons Tracker

While the flurry of stories on the topic seems to have accelerated in recent years, especially since Frey and Osborne’s notorious 2013 study of the topic, the evidence to date is that robots generally haven’t been “taking our jobs” at all.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

It means embracing a new culture and mindset, where hierarchy fades and innovation happens through networks. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. Becoming a true digital organization is not just about becoming tech-savvy.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

The benchmark, therefore, is a tool for policy makers, technology innovators, and others to evaluate progress and prioritize the gaps, thus enabling a dialogue among the key actors and a plan for action. Methodology. Each component is made up of different clusters of indicators.