Rainforest Rev: Human Capital and Celebrities’ Secret Invesments
Posted: September 4, 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Christina Wu, complexity, corporate culture, Creativity, diversity, Economics, economy, ecosystem, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, global innovation summit, Innovation, innovation conference, innovation ecosystem, leadership, Rainforest, Silicon Valley, start up, startup, strategy, T2 Venture Creation, technology transfers, Venture Capital, Victor Hwang Leave a commentTHE BIG PICTURE
The Human Capital Report
World Economic Forum
Talent, not capital, will be the key factor linking innovation, competitiveness and growth in the 21st century. To unlock human capital, governments, business leaders, educational institutions and individuals must each understand better the global talent value chain. Read more here.
Innovation Ecosystems: A New Way of Seeing
Go Productivity
An ecosystem is a nonlinear complex adaptive system, and is therefore not the sum of its parts. It constantly adapts to changes in the environment – often in unexpected ways. Within the system there are dynamic networks of interconnections, and creation, destruction, survival and evolution. Read more here.
The Celebrities Secretly Funding Silicon Valley’s Next Stars
The Washington Post
A growing number of Hollywood actors and musicians who have turned their attention up north in recent years, pouring their personal wealth into some of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups. Read more here.
What Steve Jobs Was Missing About Innovation
The Globe and Mail
In Simon Sinek’s book, Start with Why, he pushes readers to discover their purpose, cause, or belief that inspires them to do what they do. To better understand the connection between passion, innovation, and a clear “why” is to help you to gain clarity on why your company exists. Read more here.
THE LATEST NEWS
Adobe Kickbox Gives Employees $1000 Credit Cards And Freedom to Pursue Ideas
Forbes
Adobe puts the creative process in a box, packed with exercises, suggestions, and a checklist of six steps. Each box contains a set of actions that employees complete to reach the next level. This makes the concept of innovation a lot less abstract. Read more here.
New Generation of Rwandan Entrepreneurs Offer Tech Solutions to Farmers’ Dilemmas
PBS Newshour
The rise in entrepreneurship in Rwanda was planned. By 2009, entrepreneurship classes were mandatory in secondary school. The government also runs workshops, radio programs and contests aimed at promoting entrepreneurialism. Strong entrepreneurship is equated with patriotism and nation-building. Read more here.
The State Creating the Most Green Jobs Is…Georgia?
Fortune
Georgia is beating out previous frontrunners like California and Texas. Georgia is now No. 1 in clean-energy employment growth. Conservatives and left-leaning environmental groups pushed the state legislatures to support third-party solar-panel leasing. Read more here.
A Step Forward for ‘Womenomics’ in Japan
The Wall Street Journal
Japan raised the pressure on companies to hire more women and promote them to management, a key part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ’s efforts to revive an economy hobbled by a shrinking population. Read more here.
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