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Partnering With Universities Can Help To Protect Firm’s IP

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers explain that while firms reap significant benefits from the innovations that often arise from partnering with universities, the fact that academics usually wish to publish their work in academic journals can raise fears that the secret sauce will be exposed to the wider world.

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Everything you want to know about shareholder management

Strategy Driven

Public companies can have tens, hundreds, or even thousands of individual and institutional shareholders, like mutual fund companies, pension funds, or hedge funds. Shareholder management involves communicating with shareholders and keeping them updated on all ownership changes, documents, or other corporate decisions.

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How And When Automation May Affect Long-Haul Trucking

The Horizons Tracker

” Given the scale of the sector, the researchers speculate that automation is likely to result in a few hundred thousand jobs being lost, although they hedge this by stating that many of these jobs are badly paid and generally unpleasant in nature. “We

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Does Your Company Know What to Do with All Its Data?

Harvard Business Review

Innovate products, services, and processes. In both their personal and professional lives, individuals spend hours each week looking for documents, reports, and other data. Hedge funds and used car dealers use such data to create and leverage asymmetries. Exploit asymmetries. Test options and learn quickly!

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The Danger of Turning Cynical About Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

While noting that this doesn’t seem to be the case with respect to the public — both the computer and internet industries poll favorably — she documents at length the rise of “tech hate” among journalists and other commentators, including HBR contributor Umair Haque: “Tech is something like the new Wall St.

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The New Trust vs. Due Diligence Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

The coverage suggested that the man who gave us QE2 held shockingly anachronistic beliefs about basic research's role in promoting innovation. I thought this would be a wonderful gateway to post on how poorly economists and economics understand and measure innovation in global markets. Bernanke's quotes were truisms and clichés.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

This problem of extending the automatic reasoning of AI systems to understand the context of their decisions is highly complex, and creative innovation, like the one at Google, is usually needed to push the effort forward. So, a physical extension of the computing/sensing system — a laser range finder — was added.

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