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Introducing the Market-Creating Innovation Bootcamp for Policymakers

Christensen Institute

Market-creating innovations transform complicated and expensive products into simple and affordable ones so more people in society can access them. In short, market creating innovations are necessary to create prosperity. In short, market creating innovations are necessary to create prosperity.

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Exploring the Global Smart Cities Market: Software Opportunities

Tullio Siragusa

Exploring the Global Smart Cities Market: Software Opportunities According to recent market research reports, the global smart cities market is expected to reach a size of over $2 trillion by 2026, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 10%. Let’s explore the market opportunities by categories and regions.

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A Letter Regarding Financial Faith

CorporateIntel

Dear Financial Community: The failure of Silicon Valley Bank is enormously troubling. An echo of other bank failures has followed SVB down the drain. Long lines of anxious customers waiting outside banks are never something we want to see. Financial institutions, mostly banks, have to lend money for ideas to become enterprises.

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Accelerating Clean Energy Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

This realization and reality demand that all global governments quickly increase and reprioritise their spending on research and development and demonstrate and deploy clean energy technologies – putting them at the core of energy and climate policy. For advanced batteries, this pathway to commercialisation is being funded by capital markets.

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What does the exit of some multinationals from Africa signal for its prosperity?

Christensen Institute

In 2020, Standard Chartered and Barclays took steps to reduce their presence in the African market. While these companies appear to have a valid premise for exiting these markets, a question to ask is: what do these exits signal for the attainment of prosperity in Africa? Prosperity can be achieved with market-creating innovations.

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How Ajay Banga can “write a new playbook” and become the World Bank’s most consequential President

Christensen Institute

In fewer than five years, the World Bank has cycled through three Presidents. ” How might Ajay Banga write a new playbook for the World Bank? Processes include things like how an organization conducts market research, hiring, budgeting, and other aspects of its business. By changing the organization’s capabilities.

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Innovation comes in different forms and problems, all requiring financial support.

Paul Hobcraft

So far, we are doing a poor job of this as markets, solutions, opinions, and financial support are all highly fragmented. Tacking emerging and developing markets is even harder to achieve an energy transition. To make the transformation in just under 30 years is a massive task. Fatih Birol, CEO IEA) welcome.