What is innovation? And why does it matter to investors?
Innovation can be described as the combination of labour and capital employed in new ways to drive growth or do more with a given set of factors of production or inputs. This is distinct from invention, which is the generation of ideas.
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- Oct 15, 2021
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- Aug 21, 2026 (today)
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