Stephen Heppell says teachers will never keep up with children on use of technology - their job is to encourage their creativity and ingenuity.

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For the U.S. to continue to lead the global economy and bounce back, we need to pursue national policies that encourage innovation, creativity and new ideas.

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As a result, peacetime leaders employ techniques to encourage broad-based creativity and contribution across a diverse set of possible objectives.

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We will also be able to encourage a continuous stream of creativity and engagement.

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In other words, unleash the world of possibilities that a blank check and real freedom to innovate can open up, but with smarts about getting that check to the right kind of people facing the right kind of challenge, and, perhaps hardest of all, with serious discipline that will encourage, not stifle, creativity and ensure real progress toward the final goal.

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This year, again at IFA, I am proud to announce the GALAXY Note II, which will encourage users to 'unleash their inner creativity.

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Like Venters, Kristi Blicharski, a Los Angeles-based empowerment coach and business strategist, thinks it's important to encourage the uniqueness of others without judgment because it emboldens both confidence and creativity.

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The future lay with small firms that could exploit individual creativity and with bigger firms that could split themselves into small centres and encourage competition between them.

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