The European Commission announced on Monday (18 March) new changes to the European Innovation Council (EIC) and a budget increase of another €2 billion, to improve and encourage entrepreneurs and innovation in Europe.

If you’ve ever been involved with sales, then you know that it’s not for the faint of heart.

Knowledge@Wharton: Your dissertation focuses on questions that are emerging about the boundaries of the First Amendment. How did we get to this point?

CollegeWise is the leading college admissions agency in the world. It scores in the 99th percentile in Gallup engagement surveys. And for the past four years, it has had a near 0% turnover rate.

2018 was undoubtedly one of the most important years ever for biopharma, setting records for valuations and dealmaking. But a paper published in January called some of that exuberance into question, noting that many startups over the years have managed to become unicorns – with valuations of $1 billion or more – despite having little or no published, peer-reviewed data.

Venture-capital firms and early-stage companies could see a major fall in their fortunes this year. A combination of inflated valuations, unsophisticated financial models, and lack of investor perspective has led to an unsustainable bubble in the start-up sector and the firms that fund it.

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The New York Times foreign affairs columnist, three-time Pulitzer winner, and author of Thank You for Being Late, Thomas L. Friedman and McKinsey Global Institute chairman James Manyika build on their multiyear dialogue by engaging on the impact of connectivity, globalization, digitization, and artificial intelligence on work, skills, incomes, and prosperity.

Twenty-five measures offering greater financial and administrative support for aspiring innovators were unveiled by the city government on Wednesday. 

Julie Zhuo first started working at Facebook as an intern over a decade ago. Since then, she’s risen through the ranks to become VP of Product Design at the company, leading a team of hundreds that’s charged with designing the app billions of users see every day. But reflecting on her career, it was the moment when she first put on the manager’s cap that stands out most.

Officials claim the machine will be seven times faster than the current most powerful system.

A first: The Aurora supercomputer would be the first US computer to reach exascale performance, where a computer can do more than a quintillion calculations…

I always tell every new company that I talk to: You have to crawl before you walk and walk before you run. The same thing applies to the capital path.

No matter how talented someone might be, there is no guarantee that their talents will translate into top performance. The science of human potential has generally illustrated that an individual’s overarching competence cannot be fully understood unless we also account for their emotional make-up, preferences, and dispositions. No matter how smart, knowledgeable, and experienced you are, there is generally a difference between what you can do and what you normally do.

Darrell Blatchley received a call from the Philippines' Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources early Friday morning reporting that it had a young Cuvier's beaked whale that was weak and vomiting blood.

In the entrepreneurship world, Guy Kawasaki is considered a motivational icon. There is a lot to learn from his new book which is appropriately named “Wise Guy”. On the Small Business Radio Show this week, I talked with Guy about his life lessons from his time as one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Macintosh computer line to becoming the founder of his own software companies and venture capital firm. He describes this 14th book as “Miso Soup for the Soul”.

While the European Innovation Council (EIC) won’t become a ‘fully fledged reality’ until 2021, the current pilot phase is to receive a multi-billion euro boost.

We hear the word ‘Entrepreneurship’ very often in the millennial age, so let’s start with understanding the definition of it ‘Entrepreneurship’ is the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often initially a small business. The people who create these businesses are called ‘entrepreneurs’. More modern definitions of ‘Entrepreneurship’ are also about transforming the world by solving big problems. Like initiating social change, creating an innovative product or presenting a new life-changing solution.

Four years ago, outraged that Barnes & Noble was closing their only outpost in the Bronx, Noëlle Santos launched a viral crowdfunding campaign to open an indie bookstore/wine bar in the borough where she was raised. “We are worthy, we are more than just sneaker stores and we support the arts, so I stand here today and ask you to open your hearts and help us show the world what many fail to see, that the Bronx is no longer burning, except with a desire to read,” Santos rapped in her Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign while standing in front of graffiti art wearing a Read Or Else sweatshirt. She asked for $100,000, and raised $170,000. 

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Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation has a number of important responsibilities. One is promoting the international excellence of the research and science in the European Union (EU), as well as strengthening research capacities and innovation across all Member States. Another is ensuring that research funding programmes, in particular, Horizon 2020, contribute to the European Commission’s jobs, growth and investment package.

Energy systems around the world are going through rapid transitions that affect many aspects of our lives. The continuation and acceleration of these shifts will bring important changes to the way we fuel our cars, heat our homes, and power our industries in the coming decades. Our Reference Case provides our consensus view on how energy demand will evolve.

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