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“Innovation,” wrote the economist William Janeway in his seminal book Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy, “begins with discovery and culminates in…

As with the printing press and the dotcom boom, initial frenzy and speculation obscures the lasting legacy of new technologies

By Andrew Sheng and Xiao Geng HONG KONG — US President Joe Biden’s recent executive order restricting American investments in Chinese semiconductors, microelectronics, quantum information technology and artificial intelligence marks another escalation in the Sino-American tech war. In the context of the two superpowers’ intensifying geopolitical rivalry, the chances that this

By Andrew Sheng and Xiao Geng HONG KONG — US President Joe Biden’s recent executive order restricting American investments in Chinese semiconductors, microelectronics, quantum information technology and artificial intelligence marks another escalation in the Sino-American tech war. In the context of the two superpowers’ intensifying geopolitical rivalry, the chances that this

CAMBRIDGE – A central premise of neoclassical economics is that the consequences of the decisions of market participants can be known in advance and quantified as risk-adjusted estimates. As John Kay and Mervyn King showed in their 2020 book, Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers, such probabilistic reasoning has a long history. As applied in |

A new online identity wants to destigmatize doing everything horizontal.

The real challenge to building on the frontier? Figuring out human behavior.

CAMBRIDGE – The conviction of Elizabeth Holmes for fraud perpetrated as founder and CEO of Theranos has triggered intense debate about what the episode means for the innovation...

Not only is capital not a strategy, but too much capital can eliminate the need for entrepreneurs and investors alike to have any strategy at all.

Along with the rest of the world, entrepreneurs have spent the past dozen years living in an unprecedented financial environment. Responding first to the stubbornly slow recovery from the 2008 financial crisis, and then to the recession caused by Covid-19, major central banks have sustained an array of unconventional initiatives and asset-purchase programmes...