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Moreover, if Harvard is serious about boosting its tech transfer revenues, it might be tempted to take a hard-line stance in negotiations with private firms. But that might also make negotiations drag on—delaying the date at which Harvard professors’ discoveries reach the marketplace...
...efficient supply chain in a place where the roads are crowded and crumbling, the power constantly fails, the water is unsafe and the bureaucracy is complicated and burdensome? How do you transform a structure so deeply entrenched and with so many powerful political backers? How do you drag a wasteful, archaic system into the 21st century? The answer: detail by tiny detail...
...Polish workers in Gdansk produce just a handful of ships, while Poland's share of the shipbuilding market has fallen from 4% to 1.6% since the early 1990s. "The shipyard industry used to be the jewel in the crown of the Polish economy under communism. Now it's a drag," says Andrzej Buczkowski, deputy head of the Gdansk shipyard. He blames political interference from Warsaw and the government's unwillingness to embrace tough reforms that might cost jobs. Local and national governments have also been slow to stimulate investment in the kind of technology-intensive industries that would help places...
Above all, both men were giving a lot of thought to the potential of the new building to bring life to Bloor Street, Toronto's main upscale shopping drag. "It was very important to us to see this as an urban project, not just an institutional one," says Thorsell, a former editor in chief of the Globe and Mail who wanted to bring the museum into the wider world he was accustomed to. "The old ROM had its elbows up high against the city; it was a big no. I wanted transparency and engagement on Bloor Street, a major urban...
...long fueled conflict here. In the early 1990s, Sudan counted itself among the most rigid Islamist governments in the world: Riot police tear-gassed overly festive wedding parties, and the regime's determination to impose its harsh version of sharia law on the more Christian South helped to drag out the war. Its chief ideologue, Hassan al-Turabi, notoriously helped to radicalize Osama bin Laden during his years living in Khartoum...