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Emerging-Market Engineers Power Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Recently, Thomson-Reuters published its latest list of the Top 100 Global Innovators honoring the leading organizations and companies most responsible for sizeable, influential patents worldwide. First, many of the Top Innovators employ engineers in emerging countries such as India and China. Here are three main reasons why.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

These trends will require oil producers to shift their focus away from transportation and diversify towards innovative petrochemical products to capture market share in diverse end uses such as clothing and construction materials.

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Welcome to the American Competitiveness Insight Center

Harvard Business Review

On a trip to South America last fall, for instance, I recall talking to people in the oil industry about a complicated offshore drilling project. Solving them will involve changes to our financial system, our innovation system, our education system, and our political system. Until recently, only U.S. competitiveness.

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Should Companies Retain "Strategic" Cash?

Harvard Business Review

Barring a tax holiday, this cash is effectively "trapped" offshore. high technology or pharmaceutical) that are investing in projects with uncertain long-range payoffs. Facilitate Acquisitions. energy or telecom) or research-intensive industries (e.g., Allow for Greater Responsiveness to Future Events.

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Priorities for Jumpstarting the U.S. Industrial Economy

Harvard Business Review

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact. Beyond that, this surge could help cities.

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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. We will pursue a global channel strategy after we complete our I18N project. You can say that we are sort of using cloud computing a bit. The user-interface and logo were crowdsourced and is XHTML 1.1