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Simon Commander

Simon Commander is managing partner of Altura Partners, providing policy advice to governments and companies in emerging economies. He is also a visiting professor of eonomics at IE Business School in Madrid. From 1998 to 2011 he worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London and from 1988-1998 at the World Bank in Washington DC.
International Economics

Do Business Groups in Asia Really Spur Innovation?

Simon Commander
In recent years, many Asian countries have received attention for their burgeoning economic development and innovation. Much of this development and innovation is driven by business groups, large and highly diversified networks of firms with common ownership (such as Samsung). Simon Commander and Saul Estrin argue in their new book that the role of business groups as catalysts for innovation is much more nuanced than the hype suggests. 

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