Nearly £1 million invested across 5 innovative organisations by Arts & Culture Finance latest investment round. Origen: £1 million in new investments - the exciting business of arts & culture | Nesta two insights come to mind: We tend to think of arts & culture in, well, arts & culture terms. We seldom stop to [...]
While the wealth gap has narrowed globally, inequality within advanced economies has increased since the 1980s. My own take: G-7 is no more a convenient focus group for worldwide studies… <iframe src='//players.brightcove.net/1971571337001/HkOJqCPWdb_default/index.html?videoId=6049611314001' allowfullscreen frameborder=0></iframe> Origen: G7 Inequality: A persisting challenge and its implications | McKinsey Highlights of the abridged version of the discussion paper. We [...]
worth read article on this interesting system we all live into, built upon trial and error. …the man who almost bankrupted a country and the supreme advocate of bankers’ bailouts would be amused to see just how little we have learned… Origen: The Invention of Money | The New Yorker How did these once wild [...]
Enlazaba @nonoregaa esta entrada en respuesta a la reflexión de @AndresGReche que cayó ante mis ojos justo después de leer un artículo que ha estado bastante tiempo en una pestaña de mi navegador sobre la importancia del gobierno americano en la puesta en marcha de esa maquinaria que es Silicon Valley. Serendipia. Para ver la [...]
Dwight Eisenhower never declared, “I shall build a science city in Northern California.” Yet the military spending and space program spending that started under Eisenhower was the launching pad for Silicon Valley’s rocket. @medium: The Hidden History of How the Government Kick-Started Silicon Valley So in Silicon Valley, or the tech industry more broadly, you [...]
Switzerland is the world’s most-innovative country followed by Sweden, the United States of America, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, according to the 2019 edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII). Outside of Europe and North America, regional GII innovation leaders are India, South Africa, Chile, Israel and Singapore. In addition, China, Viet Nam and [...]
El mundo tras la revolución demográfica ( @Ethic_ via @Antropologia20 )…La percepción de la vejez, el transcurso del tiempo, está cambiando en el planeta, sobre todo en las sociedades más desarrolladas. Es cierto que el reloj aún sigue reproduciendo, impertérrito, su tictac de injusticia. Duele, especialmente, en las mujeres. … Garner avergüenza a una sociedad en la que envejecer supone desaparecer de una cultura que equipara [...]
Adoption and application of AI technologies 18% Pioneers: Understand, adopt, and invest in AI 33% Investigators: Understand AI but have not deployed beyond pilot stages 16% Experimenters: Are piloting AI projects but still learning its relevant applications 34% Passives: No significant understanding or adoption of AI Origen: Steps to Exponential Growth in Enterprise Organizations Six [...]
& I'd dare to say that more competition is also on the way. Markets are bigger and faster than ever before. In general, software markets and businesses are 10X bigger than they were 10-15 years ago. This is due to the liquidity provided by the global internet. A company that would have been a $10-$20M [...]
…mostrar imágenes renderizadas de nuestro yo futuro influye positivamente en nuestra propensión al ahorro dedicado a la jubilación. Origen: Marketing News, citado en "Qué leemos en The Cocktail" En Behavioral Economics se estudian en profundidad toda una serie de sesgos cognitivos relacionados con estos hallazgos: el sesgo al presente (damos más peso al presente en nuestras [...]