There was also the potential for developing better cancer drugs, since polyketides have also been a fertile source of chemotherapy agents.
Managing innovation is about the techniques for developing better products and services coupled to the ability to break through bottlenecks in the system, from sourcing through to delivery, in a global economy which is no longer progressive (from emerging to advanced), but is fractured between advanced, decaying, emerging, emerged and frontier.
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While membrane technology had been around for a long time, she worked hard on developing new and better uses for these filters.
In 1999, we will start preparing for the calm by developing better-quality products.
Since that day, Walzer has provided Nike with some ongoing feedback about his shoes and Nike continues to work with him on developing better shoes for the disabled.
Going forward, the United States, consistent with the G-20 development plan and its own global development policy, will work to more effectively leverage its development resources and achieve better economic growth outcomes for developing countries.
And we will try to define what it truly takes for organizations to do a better job of developing good judgment in leaders at all levels.
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"The Dutch have built dykes for over 1, 000 years, " says Jos Maccabiani from Flood Control 2015, a Dutch government programme charged with developing better information systems for managing floods.
Given the shortage of finance, the minister asked, would it not be better spent on developing scientists and engineers for the future?
And today I'm going to describe some of the initiatives that I will be discussing with world leaders next week to help developing nations build a better future for their people.
Since pricking a financial bubble is a risky business, it is clearly better for central banks to step in early to prevent one developing.
Ushahidi is one of the better-known success stories, developing open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.
Better, perhaps, would be for Facebook to recuse itself from developing its own products but instead to pick among the fruit of third-party developers to incorporate, non-exclusively, into its platform.
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Ministers hope to involve patients in developing individual action plans for rehabilitation so that they will be better motivated to make progress.
We will also reform the curriculum so that students get a better and broader range of options for study beyond the age of 14, developing their talents and challenging them to achieve more.
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Lant Pritchett, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard, sees his work consulting for Google.org's initiative to better inform and empower poor people in developing nations as "a thin end of the wedge" that will improve the way money already allocated for the poor is spent.
These satellites help provide better weather coverage and short-range forecasts for Europe and Africa, especially in the case of rapidly developing storms or fog.
The programme uses an innovative model for preventing and resolving tensions and conflicts among individuals and communities through developing literacy as a means to building better social cohesion and improved governance mechanisms.
"Food sovereignty" - a term adopted instead of the better-known notion of "food security" - was hailed by many as a key step for developing nations to become more resilient to emerging food crises.
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