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As a result, successful IT
innovations
have concentrated wealth in fewer – and often younger – hands.
This was not true in the twentieth century, when major
innovations
in leading sectors such as automobiles required large investments of risk capital.
But these
innovations
served only to increase the human population, not raise median standards of living.
Realizing this potential requires certain key ingredients, such as institutional and disruptive
innovations
in science and business.
Moreover, many technological
innovations
have not translated into higher productivity growth, the pace of structural reforms remains slow, and protracted cyclical stagnation has eroded the skills base and that of physical capital.
These
innovations
were considered technical successes.
While only about 49% of manufacturing startups and 37% of information startups survive for four or more years, those that do have managed to produce breakthrough
innovations.
Moreover, they can help to advance important innovations, such as clean energy and solar power, and develop tailored climate-smart solutions that bring social and economic benefits to their communities.
Everywhere there are startups, innovations, and young entrepreneurs hungry for profits.
Among the more recent
innovations
is a testing method that detects long-term metabolites left behind by anabolic steroids.
Advances in detection, however impressive, seem to be continually outpaced by
innovations
in doping.
Or a governmental body, private foundation, or research institution can award prizes for successful
innovations
(or other creative activity).
Securitization, structured finance, and other
innovations
have so interwoven the financial system’s various players that it is essentially impossible to restructure one financial institution at a time.
There is considerable slack in labor markets as well: Too many unemployed workers are chasing too few available jobs, while trade and globalization, together with labor-saving technological innovations, are increasingly squeezing workers’ jobs and incomes, placing a further drag on demand.
Already, major
innovations
such as Internet search engines, machine translation, and image labeling have relied on applying machine-learning techniques to vast data sets.
And regulation should be based not on past experience, as it is now, but on future possibilities; in other words, the regulatory framework must be flexible enough to accommodate new
innovations.
The embrace of essential human-rights standards as a cornerstone of a country’s development is one of our era’s seminal
innovations.
This enables the entrepreneurial state to continue to invest, catalyzing the next wave of
innovations.
Gordon’s main argument was that the century after the US Civil War – from about 1870 to 1970 – brought an unprecedented economic revolution, as
innovations
like electricity and piped water rapidly raised productivity and transformed people’s lifestyles.
In his view, today’s
innovations
– especially in digital technology, machine learning, and artificial intelligence – may be breathtaking, but they do not have the same broad productivity-raising potential.
We owe much of this enrichment to
innovations
that have fundamentally transformed human civilization.
But what we see instead is a gradual emergence of behavioral
innovations
in and outside Africa between 300,000 and 20,000 years ago.
Moreover, anatomically modern populations shared a number of these
innovations
with Neanderthals, which many anthropologists and geneticists consider a different species, or a human type inherently incapable of reaching our cognitive level.
But these
innovations
do not seem to have been widespread.
In sum, certain behavioral
innovations
seem to appear in Africa between 10,000 and 30,000 years before Neanderthals express them.
If these innovations’ prospective impact on productivity and GDP growth cannot be quantified, well, that is the way it is with future history.
As with other
innovations
– such as mobile phones, e-books, digital photography and music, and flat-screen televisions – large-scale deployment will occur when the new technologies reach the market tipping point, when their value to consumers exceeds the costs to businesses of supplying them.
But the new economy's most important
innovations
require progress in basic science, which must be widely disseminated because knowledge is a cumulative enterprise.
Meanwhile, we should be on the lookout for potential
innovations
and invest in research and development wherever that potential lies.
Higher-quality projects and
innovations
aimed at mitigating risk can clear the way for private-sector participation, while well-designed public-private partnerships and developed domestic capital markets can help “crowd in” investors in critical areas.
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