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SA needs to produce more PhDs to boost knowledge economy

South Africa is not spending enough on research to be truly competitive in the global economy. “We are working in a knowledge economy, globally,” highlighted...

How to Manage Innovation in a Global and Open World

For many European managers of R&D and Innovation Management numerous challenges arise: How can companies be globally efficient and locally effective...

Quotable: Microinsurance penetration set to double by 2020

Big changes are on the horizon for the global microinsurance sector. “Microinsurance, which currently provides coverage for 500 million...

“Empowering women is smart economics”

As World Bank Managing Director Caroline Anstey said in her remarks at last Thursday’s event on women in the private sector, women make up nearly 50 percent of the world’s population. Despite this, they are only 40.8 percent of the formal global labor market. This gap represents a vast economic potential that could have the power to create jobs, drive economic growth...

6 Steps to Social Innovation

An increasingly impatient social sector sees innovation as the holy grail of progress. This impatience stems in part from the perception that decades of...

Making Global Innovation Management Real

In the 20 years since companies first began structuring and automating their new product development processes, the focus has changed from internal (re-)organization to increasingly more cross-functional and outward-facing activity. The common innovation management structures have not changed in response. Add to this the demands of today’s global economy, and it’s...

Strategy, structure, and channel for global leaders of industrial service: a flow chart analysis of the expanded value network

Services are gaining ever more importance in every economy in the world. In reflection of the overall trends, manufacturers are being advised to expand and integrate their service offerings to the core product offerings. Similar Products: Powered by Leadership Without Borders: Successful Strategies from World-Class Leaders :: Amazon Business...