Because other states look to Massachusetts where students overall routinely rank at the top of national and international tests for lessons on academic achievement and innovation, the Bay State's policies on charter schools are being followed closely, former Florida education commissioner Gerard Robinson told charter advocates gathered in Boston recently.
These challenges included a lack of entrepreneurial support services, growth capital, innovation networking, and academic interactions.
Thus, these companies seek to broaden their access to innovation by creating networks of academic institutions, research institutes, and biotech companies in order to tap into other sources of intellectual property.
"Creative innovation at the intersection of traditional academic inquiry and artistic practice" is the Gray Center's mission.
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However, academic researchers never use patents as a measure of innovation prowess across industries because patenting patterns are very different across industries.
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Those three research complexes together with academic and commercial partners have nurtured an innovation ecosystem in New Mexico like no other in the Nation, populated by technology companies focused on bringing new discoveries to the marketplace.
Policies and systems must be in place to promote best practices in teaching, to address the non-academic health and social needs of disadvantaged children, to reward innovation and success, and to intervene effectively in schools in need of improvement.
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"Nokia has a long history of innovation and their partnership with Microsoft allows us to extend the core academic and community resources of the University into the pocket of our students, " noted David Middleton, Executive Director, Center for Mobile Research and Innovation, and Assistant Vice President of Administration at Seton Hall University.
Antitrust violations in such circumstances are often built on novel academic theories and speculation about possible ill effects of behavior that is also consistent with pursuit of innovation and efforts to capitalize on innovative ideas.
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However, academic research by Professors Mary Benner and Mike Tushman showed that its adoption could actually lead to a decrease in innovation after a few years (because ISO9000 does not allow for deviations from a set standard, which innovation requires), making the adopter worse off.
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Innovation seldom occurs in a vacuum, and these programs go a long way towards building a foundation for academic excellence that will help feed the pipeline of new talent.
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