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The EU Privacy Ruling Won’t Hurt Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Google has asserted that this will adversely affect innovation, but those claims are premature. Corporations need to see privacy as another market ripe for innovation, one that can yield global profits, because adapting to EU concerns means extending your market reach across the world. And Europe’s concerns are global concerns.

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. In other words, the advantages of size gave some companies a bit of safe harbor. All in all, scale has provided some immense strategic benefits to large companies around the world — protecting many from entrepreneurial innovations that would otherwise threaten.

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The Great Firewall of America

Harvard Business Review

It would have been tough to top PROTECT IP, but they've managed to do it. It contains provisions that will chill innovation. If they don't, they lose their safe harbor provisions. And think that it won't chill innovation? Except the remedy big content are proposing this time wouldn't just stop VCR technology.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business Review

There is still a need for accountants and face-to-face meetings, but typically accountants now require such visits for only the more complicated cases that can’t be managed with software or a call. This approach has had the secondary consequence of limiting innovation in delivery methods.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

In certain areas of technology, the country is the undisputed leader for the continent: with London as the center of fintech in Europe, for example, fintech investment in the UK was $5.4 Also out of reach: a €500 million network of digital innovation hubs and the Digital Agenda for Europe initiative (a €2.8