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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

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Related Video. See More Videos > See More Videos > Unfortunately, all these grand ambitions and substantial investments are likely to have limited returns. Most of the absorbed knowledge — local contacts and relationships, intelligence, insights, and so on — left with them.

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Even in a Digital World, Globalization Is Not Inevitable

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Related Video. See More Videos > See More Videos > A recent digitalization-related example of globaloney is Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna’s The Age of Discovery , which argues that, thanks to radically increased connectedness, we may be on the verge of a global Renaissance.