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No, we aren't running out of new ideas

  • Written by Beth Webster, Director, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
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We’ve picked all the low hanging fruit when it comes to new ideas, and the world is set for more parsimonious times. This is the idea put forward in a recent research paper by Nicholas Bloom, John Van Reenen and their co-authors.

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