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Innovation

Innovation rarely fails for lack of good ideas — it fails at the seams, where policy, infrastructure, capital and product are supposed to meet and often don’t. This section is about those seams: how frontier markets move an idea from a ministerial slide to a working system, why so many digital-transformation programmes simply automate broken processes faster, and what has to be built underneath before any platform can hold. Less hype cycle, more load-bearing structure — the unglamorous architecture that decides whether innovation compounds or quietly evaporates.