Innovation

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How blockchain is empowering agritech start-ups

By HENRY DUCKWORTH A WAVE of innovative start-ups is emerging in the agritech industry. Their mission: improve food production and supply chain management, and increase...

Mark Bao: Game Theory as a Business Model

Mark Bao is a young man who likes to takes on big challenges and understand human behaviour in order to solve complex problems. While still...

Financing the Future: Leveraging the Power of Investment

Projected growth rates for emerging economies are slowing down. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects their convergence with more advanced economies to take place...

Deep Oil: Unlocking the Poles

The arrival of peak oil — the point in time when global oil production peaks and begins to forever decline — has loomed for...

EESHA KHARE (Student): Young inventor changing the mobile world

MOBILE phone batteries last for a few hours and then slowly die. We all sigh a little, put them on charge, and wait a...

IFC: Corporate Governance Practices in the European Union

For the first time, European Commission Directive 2006/46/EC required all listed companies to produce a corporate governance statement in their annual report to shareholders....

Seriously Funny: Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis has been called “the funniest serious writer in America” – the sort of contradictory label that has been pinned to the 55-year-old...
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Five reasons why you should consider employee share ownership

In association with Malcolm Hurlston CBE, chairman, Employee Share Ownership (Esop) Centre The idea that employees should own shares in the company they work for...

Our Man in Tashkent Going Rogue: Craig Murray

For nearly twenty years, Craig Murray climbed the career ladder as a UK diplomat. In 2002, Mr Murray was appointed British Ambassador to Uzbekistan....
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Chat GPT ‘could usher-in the four-day week’

MORE than a quarter of UK organisations are likely to make redundancies in 2023, according to research from HR consultancy Ayming UK — but...