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50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

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How to Create an Innovation Ecosystem

Military needs spur innovations that transform the economy. From GPS to ARPANET, which became the internet, Silicon Valley is built on technologies first funded by the US Department of Defence. But even when ideas come from the public sector, it takes a culture of entrepreneurship to explore what they can do. Napoleon's laboratory was an early example of an idea we'll encounter often in this series.

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