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What The Economist gets wrong about democracy and development in Latin America

Christensen Institute

Take for example, the 2003 attempted institutional reform in Afghanistan. Over the years billions of dollars were poured into the country to change the prevailing institutions in government, which many hoped would lead to positive change in the country. The way we do it is by fostering more market-creating innovations.

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How President Lula da Silva should help the poor in Brazil this time?

Christensen Institute

When he served as Brazil’s 35th president from 2003 to 2010, the country was experiencing an economic boom. GDP almost quadrupled from $558 billion in 2003 to $2.2 Today, Brazil–and as a consequence its citizens–is poorer and the government has fewer resources to provide social services to the people. trillion in 2010.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Where startups search for product/market fit and consistency in customer retention, ScaleUps search for scalable product/ market fit, or go-to-market fit. Without innovation, inertia will govern speed.

Strategy 130
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Coopetition

CREATORS

Why Collaborating with your Competitors Can Be the Key to Innovation ** This is a continuation of the blogpost about different innovation governance models. As a result, they reached the two top ranks in TV market and increased their value tremendously. Samsung and Sony?—?both What is Coopetition? Is all the effort really worth it?

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

2002 – The social network By this time, social media was rapidly growing with the launch of LinkedIn and MySpace in 2003, and Facebook in 2004. 2008 – Global financial crisis It began with a credit crunch at the end of 2007 and ended up becoming a global recession, with blame pointed at sub-prime lending in the housing market.

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How China Creates the Strongest Innovation System

The BMI Lab Blog

Massive investments, a huge market and the hiring of worldwide talent has boosted the Chinese innovative ecosystem. For instance, in Q3 2017, Tencent, the Chinese Internet company that developed WeChat and QQ, overran Facebook in terms of market value. China is no longer just the home of copycats. But how was this possible?

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Successfully Merging Theory and Practice in your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

From 2003 to 2007, I have been in charge of the R&D project portfolio management line of business at a solution provider. This can be considered as an underused asset, just like if a company was not using a part of its channels to sell its products or was not using a given production line to its full capacity to meet market demand.