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16 January 2013
Superheroes In Business Suits | Co.Exist
When inside businesses are driving change from within the corporate structure, the change can be enormous. So we have to find ways to empower more people to identify as intrapreneurs. We live in an era of superhuman challenges. Climate change, extreme poverty, and global hunger are a few of the many problems that have no easy fix, and yet they must be solved. In this world, we need full-time superheroes, not just mythical men and women who moonlight in tights and capes.
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15 January 2013
IFC outlines steps for expanding developing-country jobs | Polity
Jobs in developing countries can be created at a faster pace than is currently the case if four key obstacles to private-sector job creation are addressed, a new study by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) shows. It estimates that 200-million people are unemployed globally and that 600-million jobs will have to be created by 2020, mainly in developing countries, simply to keep up with population growth. The IFC also stresses that private-sector job creation is critical, as nine out of every ten jobs are created by private enterprises.
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14 January 2013
Startups are the Place to Find and Use Baby Boomers | SME South Africa
The buzz from startup executives, especially high-tech ones, has long been that startups are no place for Baby-Boomers (1946-1964) – you must have the high energy and crazy determination to work 20-hour days to succeed. Only the under-35 age group need apply. I will argue that times have changed, and you better take another look. First of all, the Boomer demographic is currently the single largest, mainstream pool of experienced talent in the market today (76 million people strong).
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14 January 2013
Student-entrepreneurs rock | SME South Africa
Many years ago, when a new dean at my university referred to the faculty as “content providers”, my colleagues and I rolled our eyes. It was the latest hokey label for an old profession. There was “sage on the stage” (the distant lecturer on the podium), “guide on the side” (the collaborative, student-centred instructor) and, in the laptop classroom, the “peer at the rear”. Like all catchphrases and buzzwords, they served a short-hand purpose.
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12 January 2013
The great innovation debate | The Economist
With the pace of technological change making heads spin, we tend to think of our age as the most innovative ever. We have smartphones and supercomputers, big data and nanotechnologies, gene therapy and stem-cell transplants. Governments, universities and firms together spend around $1.4 trillion a year on R&D, more than ever before. Yet nobody recently has come up with an invention half as useful as that depicted on our cover.
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