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Failed and bankrupt cities
Bankrupt cities Cities do go bankrupt. A judge accepted the California city of Stockton’s bankruptcy application today, with 300,000 residents making it the most populous city so far in the United...
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Monaco can give Entrepreneurs the Edge
The Principality of Monaco is a sovereign city-state, on the French Riviera, world-known as a tourist and recreation center for the rich and famous and run by the Princes of the House of Grimaldi...
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William Jimerson from Musa Capital speech at The EDGE in Monaco
The EDGE is a one-day forum in Monaco that was held on 11 April 2013. The event was designed to promote innovative and socially conscious business models, in line with the strong commitment of HSH...
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Regional development in East Sweden
On Tuesday April 16, I visited the East Sweden region to give a speech on development in the European Union and the EU Horizon 2020 strategy, at a regional conference in Åtvidaberg. The conference was...
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Good and bad companies
What is the difference between a good and bad company? The difference is that great companies commit to the integrity of an idea. They will not let it get watered down or compromised but stay with the...
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Opening of the Sokol Grad fort in Croatia
Krak des Chevalliers, Massada, Rumelihisan, Entrevaux, Carcassonne, Roquebrun… Names of historic forts that by their history or ruins impose might and strength. We humans have constructed defensive...
View ArticleThe Death of Innovation, the End of Growth
Economic growth has been high for two centuries, since the first industrial revolution. Can there be an end to this? In a TED Talk posted on April 23rd, Northwestern University Economist Robert Gordon...
View ArticleDebate on the future of Work and Innovation
There was a interesting debate on TED Talks last week, between Robert Gordon, Economics Professor at Northwestern University and Erik Brynjolfsson, Professor of Management at MIT Sloan School of...
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The New Machine Age
“Current economic troubles are sometimes misdiagnosed as the end of innovation, but they are actually the growing pains of … the new machine age.” As machines take on more jobs many people find...
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The challenge with Big Data
There is a mind-boggling amount of data floating around our society. This is called Big Data and it refers to data that is too large, complex and dynamic for any conventional data tools to capture,...
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Talent Attraction and Migration
Human migration is movement by humans from one area to another, sometimes over long distances or in large groups. Historically this movement was nomadic, often causing significant conflict with the...
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Sub-Saharan Africa Building Momentum in a Multi-Speed World
We live in a world where economic development takes place in different pace for different regions. It has always been like this, but for the first time in modern history, it is no longer western...
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Future impact of disruptive technologies
There is a sense of profound change in the air in companies we work with. This is especially true for the large banks and other companies active in B2C. The rapidly changing consumer technology world,...
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Seminar on innovation and the dynamics of the markets at Universitat...
Today I enjoyed doing a a seminar for the Executive MBI students at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona. The class was sharp and very eager to ask questions and get to know...
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Cannes Film Festival as a place branding event
Cannes is where you lie on the beach and stare at the stars—or vice versa. - Rex Reed, U.S. columnist and actor. Tonight is the final evening of the Cannes Film Festival 2013, an annual event when the...
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The Swedish wood industry annual event 2013
Träslaget is a two day annual event and meeting place where professionals, businesses, organizations, and higher education from the Swedish wood industry converge in Nässjö, in the geographical centre...
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2013 is a pivotal year for where we have Economic Growth
“Whether a nation be today mighty and rich or not depends not on the abundance or security of its power and riches, but principally on whether its neighbours possess more or less of it.” – Phillipp von...
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The 50 ideas that shaped business today
There is a 60-page supplement to Financial Times today, about the Inventions and innovations that helped create today’s business world. Articles are categorised into: People, Technology – Computers,...
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Lift to heaven – a new radical innovation
The first industrial revolution was to a large extent about new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes. The third industrial revolution that we are living through now is also to some...
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Living and working across cultures
“We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race." - Kofi Annan, born in 1938, secretary general of the United Nations from 1997 until...
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