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Book Review: The Coming Jobs War

Lead on Purpose

Those things destroy cities, destroy job growth and destroy city GDP. More money, jobs and GDP turns on who is named manager than on any other decision,” says Clifton. Entrepreneurial innovation: “Entrepreneurs are the rainmakers,” says Clifton. Entrepreneurship is more important than innovation. Not according to Clifton.

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Chinese Competition Has Raised Innovation In America and Europe

The Horizons Tracker

It’s often said that necessity is the mother of all invention, and that certainly seems to be the case during Covid, with new data from Accenture revealing that innovation has flourished during the pandemic. Born out of disaster and necessity comes opportunity; the pandemic has sparked a new wave of innovation. Unusual quarters.

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How Innovative Projects Get Funded

The Horizons Tracker

Financial markets tend to fund the implementation of existing ideas or investment-intensive projects but often fail to adequately fund the discovery of new ideas,” the researchers explain. The study looked at how these financial challenges affect investment and innovation at both individual firms and in the wider economy.

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The Global Nature Of Corporate Venturing

The Horizons Tracker

This analysis reveals that most activity is driven by the demand for growth via market expansion. “The findings mirror the features of the Chinese setting, where entrepreneurs profit from the dramatic expansion in economic activity and serve as a vehicle to leverage the global innovation frontier,” the researchers explain.

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Research Highlights The Economic Value Of Immigration

The Horizons Tracker

The data showed that a six-year increase in immigration of around 25% results in an increase in per capita GDP of 0.08% and a 0.41% fall in total government debt by 2032. This continues to grow until 2052, when the increases in GDP per capita reach 0.30% and the fall in government debt reaches 1.34%.

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How Corporate Venturing Can Help Startups Overcome The Valley Of Death

The Horizons Tracker

Each year INSEAD produce a global innovation index, which chronicles the abilities of various countries around the world to support the creation of innovation. New research from IESE makes the case for corporate venturing to help rectify the situation and bring more academic excellence to market. Crossing the valley.

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Helping The Less Well Off Means Recessions Are Shallower

The Horizons Tracker

“I find that the unequal incidence of aggregate fluctuations in the labor market increases the aggregate marginal propensity to consume, providing a measurement for a key moment in a new class of heterogeneous agent models.” The paper highlights how recessions seldom affect workers, or indeed companies, equally.

Crisis 126