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Innovate Forward

Leading Blog

Technology is the raw material that 21st-century innovators need to build new business capabilities, to develop exciting new products and services, and to create workarounds for the physical distancing measures we will likely endure for the foreseeable future. In a world of pandemic, it’s the only way forward.

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How Social Class Affects Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

This confidence may have a class element to it, as research from the UVA Darden School of Business found that people of higher social class tend to have an exaggerated belief in their abilities, especially compared to their lower-class peers. The idea that every bias is a defect may well be wrong.” Advantages beget advantages.

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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

It’s fair to say that class plays a significant role in whether people get into the C-suite or not. Indeed, research shows that workers from working-class backgrounds are over 30% less likely to be recruited into a managerial role than their middle-class peers.

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How Can Innovation Be Better Disseminated?

The Horizons Tracker

In a recent article, I highlighted some of the challenges involved in translating investment in technology and innovation into productivity improvements across the economy. In an age of smartphones, AI, and genetics, it seems crazy to think that the record sums invested in technology aren’t making more of an impact.

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Crystal Clear: Pioneering the Last 60 years of Display Technology Innovation & Looking Into the Future

Strategy Driven

Just take a look at laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and other handheld devices, which were all possible thanks to display technology innovation. Display innovation can also be found in factory equipment, oil rigs, trains, trucks and boats and airplanes. Demand for CRT screens dropped in the late 2000s, and were replaced by LCD.

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The Vital Secondary Market For Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

Despite concerns that the pace of innovation has been slowing in recent decades, 2020 saw over 1,000 patents registered per day in the United States alone. Most of the research on innovation examines how something new gets produced, not how the idea itself moves about. The secondary market for innovation.

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Research Shows That Technology Levels The Playing Field

The Horizons Tracker

The emergence of ChatGPT and other generative technologies has given fresh impetus to concerns about AI taking our jobs. Leveling the playing field The key to determining the impact was whether the new technology could do the job instead of the worker or whether it complements the worker.