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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 8 – Cyber

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape the character and employment of all instruments of national power. These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s

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Gig Economy 2019: Hire Top Freelancers

Transformify

PWC projects that by 2020 , the gig economy will be worth almost USD 63bn globally and about GBP 2bn in the UK alone. What is the likelihood for the tax authorities to chase the employer for information on the paid fees and is the employer liable for disclosing information as part of monthly or annual reports to a government agency, etc.?

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they trillion in 2020. In fact, the Houston city government ranks number onein the country in renewable energy use. What’s bringing them here?

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Thoughts from the Digital Agenda Assembly 2012 in Brussels

VC Cafe

Last week I participated in the EU’s Digital Agenda Assembly 2012 (“DAA12″), a speaker in the plenary session titled: “Delivering Internet-based innovation as a way out of the crisis: the role of Horizon 2020″ and as a participant in the workshop on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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