An inventive way to tackle unemployment

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From cars to personal computers, “disruptive innovations” have created jobs on a huge scale – but in the last 20 years, investment has slumped.
Zanny Minton Beddoes, Economics Editor at The Economist, interviews Clayton Christensen, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, who explains why we need to invest more in the kind of innovations that create growth.
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