Andreas Irmen and Anastasia Litina, Jan. 18, 2017 https://hbr.org/2017/01/what-a-study-of-33-countries-found-about-aging-populations-and-innovation?utm_campaign=hbr&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social The populations of almost all Western countries are getting older, as the Baby Boomers, born in the 1950s and 1960s, live longer and have fewer children than previous generations. Population aging of this dimension is possibly unique in world history. No surprise, then, that it poses…
Nordic nations dominate the top 15, while South Korea reigns supreme and Russia is dealt a huge blow by Michelle Jamrisko and Wei Lu, Bloomberg, Jan. 17, 2017 There’s something about those Nordic countries. In the battle of ideas, Sweden climbed to No. 2 and Finland cracked into the top five of the 2017 Bloomberg…