In an effort to drive innovation, the factories were often developing new products or processes on different platforms.
Two visionaries, Francis Collins and Susan Desmond-Hellmann, were rewarded for their effort to bring a bold innovation culture to NIH and UCSF.
Innograd, a high-technology research hub in Skolkovo, is perhaps the largest state-directed effort to establish an innovation ecosystem for pioneering the next-generation technologies in the fields of telecommunications, life sciences and nuclear energy.
This effort is an opportunity to have an organized, national effort that can build a strong constituency for innovation and technology and what the appropriate federal role is to create an environment for the U.S. to thrive and compete.
But on Friday, Facebook showed it has decided that enough is enough, and filed a complaint against StudiVZ in a federal court in California, accusing it of using its "creativity, innovation and effort" to build a clone Web site.
Each requires a different type of innovation effort and I find it uncomfortable to try and fit a universal set of principles across the entire spectrum of innovation.
The Feast aims to guide innovation and collective effort, at scale.
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Countries like Germany, South Korea, and Japan have quickly increased their investment in clean energy innovation since 2009 in an effort to become global leaders in the industry.
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Indeed, aside from some hand-waving about the lack of cancer cures and flying cars in chapter 1, the book never makes a serious effort to substantiate the claim that the pace of American innovation has slowed down.
This effort to open up, teach in English and then make use of an international mix of talents to galvanize innovation at home represents an even more dramatic shift.
The Orlando Materials Innovation Principles is an effort by 31 organizations to collaborate on utilizing and developing new IT tools and driving open models for data and knowledge sharing.
There is a still a huge opportunity for a national effort that links regions that are leveraging innovation and entrepreneurial efforts to grow jobs.
People like to say that Samsung is not innovative but reducing the product cycle from 24 months to 12 is big news and a huge innovation effort.
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When entering the 38, 000 square-foot TechShop Detroit location, Brick told me that the facility was a collaborative effort between Ford Motor Company and TechShop to promote creative energy and innovation.
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The latest effort to squeeze the storm into the bottle is The Dynamics of Disruptive Innovation, sponsored by the 2012 CEO Study from IBM.
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The necessary effort to systematize the competition around inputs then, by definition, works against innovation which leads in part to the challenges we see in the current Race to the Top District draft rules.
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To be successful, the innovation leaders at the bank organized the effort differently.
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But even a grassroots effort like the Innovation Movement needs support from influential leaders, writers and pundits to form it into a true political movement.
The Competence Centre Stuttgart Partnership, which reports to the Mayor, is the main engine of this effort, harnessing local innovation, developing quality criteria for further education, and building strong networks with businesses.
That said, there is increasing evidence that an over-reliance on planning, management and measurement in the front-end of innovation as evidenced by the movement of back-end processes such as lean and six sigma to the front end of innovation, are producing poor returns on innovation effort.
Companies often ask us about open innovation as a way to address this problem, but in many cases, effective open innovation requires more effort from internal resources than they would have imagined.
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Within a few weeks, I am to attend meetings on a multi-year social entrepreneurship effort in Germany, a new social innovation strategy in France, and a new round of policies as part of the EU-wide Social Business Initiative.
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When somebody spends hundreds of millions of dollars to develop the next movie or a billion dollars to develop the next heart medicine, the innovation and the enterprise that went into that effort is protected as the law provides.
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