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How China is building an Offer You Can’t Refuse – my interview with China keynote speaker Pascal Coppens

Steven Van Belleghem

For instance, they offer commerce in a social media context. According to Pascal, the big difference between Chinese companies and Western companies when it comes to fostering a Saving the World strategy is that the former is more driven by the government than by the consumer or the citizen.

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

I mean, you’ve said before Norman, that a failure in sustainability hasn’t been a failure of government, that it’s actually been a failure of invention or innovation. And we don’t need a whole lot of government subsidies or anything because the price of this stuff is absolutely cratering.

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Questioning tech: The past, present, and future of survey tools

Intercom, Inc.

Censuses and tax records were the kind of things governments kept track of at the level of millions of people, and practically nobody else in society kept observations on that many things. And the census was the only way the government had to know what those numbers were and how to then make the political allocations that would come from it.