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3. City governments are using Yelp to warn the public about restaurant health code violations.
By Michael Luca and Luther Lowe in Harvard Business Review
4. The FDA is cutting the red tape so doctors can get experimental drugs to patients more quickly.
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5. How can we support entrepreneurial inventors in developing countries? Create innovation ecosystems.
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