As part of this experiment, New York City funded a series of independent studies to engage in the innovation process that is, to test whether the innovation was really working after some early promising results that gave the city the confidence to bring the model into regular-day instruction, learn both from mistakes and the positives, and iterate appropriately.

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The problem is that has completely crushed out any innovation or any cinema opportunities for independent or inventive or unusual, nonblockbuster content.

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Our friends at Make share our enthusiasm about independent inventors, tinkerers, and makers of all stripes driving innovation in the technology world, and we're excited to welcome them as an official Expand media partner.

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An independent panel of academics Monday cautioned Washington against rushing into an innovation-stifling regulation of investment banking, but urged that structures be put in place to ensure the industry itself bears the cost of any future federal bailouts.

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He identified it as a major problem for banking competition and innovation in the banking industry - and proposed a new independent regulator.

BBC: UK banking reforms: What's new?

When I wrote The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs, I interviewed the co-owner of an independent electronics retailer, Abt Electronics, a Glenview, Illinois, business that innovates around the customer experience.

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Unlike regulations promulgated by EPA, which are designed to punish those within the industry, FDA regulations encourage innovation in the field by fast-tracking life-saving new drugs and offering independent research for all drug manufacturers.

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In every other developed country in the world policy makers would be thrilled to have a second independent competitive national broadband communications infrastructure, like cable offers, that creates facilities-based competitive benefits of innovation, investment and diversity of choice.

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