Business & Industry

Technician Matthew Smith loads a robotic DNA sample automation machine

Why do we fail to measure the most innovative countries?

Bart Kolodziejczyk

Monday, January 22, 2018

Workers arrange pieces of fabric inside the Indochine Apparel PLC textile factory in Hawassa Industrial Park in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples region, Ethiopia November 17, 2017. Picture taken November 17, 2017.REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri - RC19FAA25600

Foresight Africa viewpoint – African economies and global value chains

Friday, January 19, 2018

Photo: News cameras (REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni GM1EA580DQY01)

Destroying what made American broadcasting great

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

A pharmacy employee looks for medication.

Are drugs for neglected diseases profitable?

Jake Schneider and Jeremy Barofsky

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) holds a sample tax form as he unveils legislation to overhaul the tax code.

How the new tax bill encourages tax avoidance

Thursday, December 14, 2017

(L-R) Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch, Twitter's acting General Counsel Sean Edgett and Google's Director of Law Enforcement and Information Security Richard Salgado are sworn in to testify before a U.S. Senate Judiciary Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee hearing on how Russia allegedly used their services to try to sway the 2016 U.S. elections, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 31, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC185BF17180

Big technology firms challenge traditional assumptions about antitrust enforcement

Clara Hendrickson and William A. Galston

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

A row of patented two axes solar tracking system at the Montesquieu solar plant in Martillac, southwestern France, October 2, 2008. The 126 trackers, which follow the sun's path from east to west, and its height in the sky from the horizon during the changing seasons, produce 30 per cent more energy than static solar panels. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau (FRANCE) - PM1E4A21DMN01

Inventions and inequality: Class gaps in patenting

Richard V. Reeves and Nathan Joo

Monday, December 4, 2017

Workers walk near a cargo ship at the Beira port in Mozambique, February 15, 2013. Mozambique has named miner Rio Tinto as one of six preferred bidders for a new $3 billion railway and port development project to boost coal exports, the country's transport minister said on April 10, 2013. Picture taken February 15, 2013. REUTERS/Agnieszka Flak (MOZAMBIQUE - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS TRANSPORT) - GM1E94B0R0W01

Figures of the Week: Sub-Saharan African countries implement e-governance initiatives

Thursday, November 9, 2017

A TV crew interviews Sophia, a robot integrating the latest technologies and artificial intelligence

AI should worry skilled knowledge workers too

Makada Henry-Nickie

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

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Repatriated earnings won’t help American workers—but taxing those earnings can

Wednesday, October 25, 2017