The tenacity and networking it takes on November 24, 2011Former Canadian Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew was possibly the first to state that the era of globalisation would count women among its winners. And, indeed, women have made great strides, virtually all over the world, as far as their labour force participation and their level of education are concerned. According to the World Bank, women […]
The brave new world of frontier economics on November 17, 2011We have entered what might be called the era of ‘frontier economics’. As older, easier sources of economic growth are drying up, the prospects for continued dynamism and prosperity hinge more than ever before on pioneering entrepreneurial start-ups to explore and extend the technological barrier. This puts national economies under a constant pressure to knock […]