All play crucial roles in developing an idea, pushing it up the corporate channels, developing a strategy and overseeing execution and implementation.

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EIRs also say such programs give them legitimacy in meetings as they are developing an idea for a company and can speed up the process.

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" Watanabe, Merner advises, should rely on developing new talent in-house rather than buy "an old idea that's gone extinct.

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In film, the process of coming up with an idea, developing it, securing financing and producing it, can take years from inspirational spark to a screening in a theatre.

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Yet embedded in "The Brown Bunny" is the germ of an idea that might've been worth developing had the film not gone wildly offbase.

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The main international effort to speed it up is an idea known as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), which pays people in developing countries to leave trees standing.

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