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Silicon Valley Investor Aims To Create Tech Hub In Maine

PYMNTS

The city can’t hope to compete in every way with heavy-hitters like Boston, Seattle, San Francisco and Silicon Valley, which captured nine out of 10 jobs between 2005 and 2017. The logic behind the institute is that innovators do their best work when they are surrounded by other innovators.

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18 Corporate Innovation Labs In Healthcare

CB Insights

One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. We put together a list of healthcare innovation labs from new entries to the field, as well as some of the oldest — and most familiar — names in health. Sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong , and we’ve written about corporate innovation theater before.

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Saving Main Street: How A Business School Is Helping Toronto SMB Retailers

PYMNTS

In an interview with Karen Webster, Chris Carder , co-director of Entrepreneurial Studies at Schulich School of Business, outlines the story of how innovation can become teamwork. It starts with a public-private partnership, has a great pizza story in the middle and ends with a feisty attitude in the face of a devastating pandemic.

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Saving Main Street From Its Downward Pandemic Spiral

PYMNTS

The owner of an upscale hair salon in Boston is an example of a business living this reality. This product innovation has become a permanent offer for her clients who travel, or who spend time outside of Boston during the winters and summers. Saving Main Street. Even more of them are closing.

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Can ‘Elective’ Fees Work For Retail Banks?

PYMNTS

Indeed, some 88 percent of consumers don’t see a reason to switch to other financial institutions, according to a recent PYMNTS and Green Dot study. But that’s not stopping efforts at innovation and disruption in this space. The last such store closed earlier this year in Boston. Others will dip a toe in at first,” he said.

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Can SMBs Avoid Being Left Behind In The Great Digital Shift?

PYMNTS

And, the studies show, consumers are in this for the long haul – as of September, the majority of consumers were predicting that it will be another 374 days before they feel comfortable getting back out there, traveling and intermixing with large crowds again. The Power of Persistence. It takes guts.

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

The CFPB has announced the appointment of new members to its Consumer Advisory Board, Community Bank Advisory Council, Credit Union Advisory Council, and Academic Research Council. Arjan Schutte, Founder and Managing Partner, Core Innovation Capital, Los Angeles, CA. Community Bank Advisory Council Members.