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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

The Global Innovation Index illustrates this, as they cite the inhibiting impact a shortage of human capital is having on the innovation potential of the nation. These efforts hope to succeed where Bringing Talent Home, which was an initiative run between 2010 and 2012, failed. Talent shortages.

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What Impact Do Immigrant-Founded Startups Have On The Labor Market?

The Horizons Tracker

That immigration has a profound impact on innovation, and especially on entrepreneurship, is well established. Indeed, analyses suggest that between 2008 and 2012, immigrants accounted for 25% of new employer businesses. A similar proportion of self-employed individuals are also foreign-born.

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Accelerators Need To Do More To Foster Connections

The Horizons Tracker

Incubators and accelerators have become highly pervasive around the world, as countries seek to cultivate the kind of innovations that drive economic growth. The research examined 56,000 patents granted between 1969 and 2012 from American universities with incubator programs.

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The Widening Gap Between Leaders and Up-and-coming Leaders…and What to Do About It

Great Leadership By Dan

people), innovative practices such as job rotation, leadership development through coaching, mentoring, action-learning, and next-generation behavioral performance evaluation must all be considered. The challenge is to put these and other innovative tools to use in a structured manner to build an enduring leadership succession program.

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Pre-Employment Assessments

Coaching Tip

In its 2012 CEO Challenge report, The Conference Board identified the top two business issues CEOs care about right now: innovation and human capital. Source: Human Resource Executive, May 2012. There is no question that business priorities are shifting.

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What Impact Does It Have When Leaders Become Sick?

The Horizons Tracker

The study gathered data on around 13,000 Danish SMEs from 1996 to 2012, with the data revealing that a five-to-seven day period of hospitalization for the CEO resulted in profitability of that business falling by 7% during that year. What’s more, this damage was even more severe if the period of hospitalization is longer.

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What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

Harvard Business Review

” It’s important to distinguish between different types of innovation, and the responses they require by firms. In a recent publication in the Journal of Product Innovation, we undertook a systematic review of 40 years (1975 to 2016) of innovation research. This may happen in two ways.