Innovation

Heiki Paakkinen: Can Penguins Rule the Waves?

The energy trilemma – how to generate affordable, secure, and low carbon electricity – constitutes a struggle for most countries. There is an imperative...
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Ready to write? This bot has got you…

AI writing tool ChatGPT is taking the world by storm. What exactly is it? What’s its potential, for good or ill? BV editor HAL...
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Vulnerability: the heartbeat of creativity and innovation

By CHRIS PATON THE NUMBER of UK businesses forced to close in the last quarter was 137,210 — 23 percent up on the same period...

Joseph E Stiglitz and Hamid Rashid: Closing Developing Countries’ Capital Drain

Developing countries are bracing for a major slowdown this year. According to the UN report World Economic Situation and Prospects 2016, their growth averaged...

Bernie Sanders: To the Rescue of Middle Class America

To understand Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, ask his brother. He may be found, not in downtown New York but pottering in his garden behind...
Artificial Intelligence

Masayoshi Son: Great Business Visionary, or Deluded Dreamer?

He’s won, lost, then won a fortune again. Now he has amassed the gigantic ‘Vision Fund’ from which to spread investment around the world’s...

The original Wolf of Wall Street

He was the man who Americans loved to hate, yet his achievements were revered. Selfish, unfriendly, single-minded and with a merciless desire to beat...

Wall Street’s Second Act

Now is the time to get rich. The volume of money idling on the side lines for lack of yield now stands at an...

Martin Scorsese: A Life Saved by Rock & Roll

If Martin Charles Scorsese hadn’t made the momentous decision to become a film-maker, he would have joined the priesthood. A celibate life of serenity...
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How — and why — to build a digital ecosystem

By MARK WASS THE VALUE of a digital ecosystem is that it simplifies connections between partners via a centralised point. No single stakeholder needs to own...