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December 11, 2019

Corporate innovation weekly: seaweed, electric shocks and the "crazy rules" theory of success

This is what Europe's biggest companies — from Volvo and Unilever to Roche and NatWest —  have been doing with startups and new technologies this week.


Maija Palmer

6 min read

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