One particularly successful approach is that of the Conrad Foundation and their Spirit of Innovation Challenge.
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We at the Dell Social Innovation Challenge are also building the field of global social innovators.
Zachary Smith founded the company in his senior year at Harvard and won the Harvard College Innovation Challenge.
So, we narrowed it down to running an innovation challenge with Sibos participants.
Embrace, once a finalist in the Dell Social Innovation Challenge competition, has received ongoing acclaim for its low-cost infant incubator.
Invariably when we do, we end up feeling pretty good about our future and even more determined to push onward toward our next innovation challenge.
The team figured that if the Innovation Challenge was such a success at SWIFT, there should be a way to run something similar for our community of clients and partners.
In this context, we hope this Innovation Challenge will serve as a call to action for technology and data innovators to team with care innovators to propose solutions that can be implemented with speed and have the capacity to scale.
We are seeing positive results in terms of job creation and economic impact from federal regional innovation programs, like the Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge and i6, which have been awarded to public-private collaborations across the United States, including my home state of Ohio.
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CIOs and CTOs must take on this innovation and design challenge.
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At today's summit on Promoting Innovation: Prizes, Challenge and Open Grantmaking, two leading experts on the use of prizes to solve problems addressed the assembled gathering.
The role of innovation in addressing the aging challenge is already attracting the attention of governments.
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However many others are driven by things such as opportunity, challenge, or innovation.
Parrot by is a vast project of technological innovation, with a lofty challenge: integrating the best technology into a minimalist product.
Innovation requires the ability to challenge the status quo.
We kicked off the event with three key questions: Do we need more social innovation, or is the big challenge these days just to scale up what we know?
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For an ad person who strives to challenge conventions and champions innovation, creativity becomes an exercise in finding small gaps and cracks that enable one to push the envelope.
This seems like a great way to approach the challenge and is a respectable innovation for a company that makes most of its revenue from enterprise software and services.
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Joan Weiner, who has a degree in social systems sciences, notes that although approaching sustainable innovation in a holistic way holds the challenge of bringing together the complex, interrelated sets of pieces into a new and continually changing system, the benefits are potentially great.
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But, instead of accepting the innovation, broadcasters are distorting copyright laws to challenge its legality.
We need to invest in technological innovation and create an environment where entrepreneurs can challenge, improve and strengthen our society.
The challenge is that sustaining growth and innovation through acquisition is good when the goal is to address real customer problems but not when the goal is the more cynical goal of merely selling yet another product through an existing sales channel to an existing customer base.
The broader challenge is how can you achieve disruptive innovation in a highly-regulated industry?
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Providence was one of 305 cities that pitched an idea to Bloomberg Philanthropies' Mayors Challenge, a contest designed to spur innovation in America's cities.
Yet, in the face of crushing economic pressures, there are new sprouts of creativity, which powerfully, and confidentially are rising to challenge the status quo with style, innovation and fresh perspective.
In management , firms might spend less time on the 20th Century preoccupation with improving efficiency rather than on the 21st Century challenge of generating customer delight through continuous innovation.
Mr Meisen goes on to make his case that the climate challenge is so daunting that it requires innovation breakthroughs in addition to the expansion of energy efficiency and other ready measures.
Similarly, we can master any social challenge we choose, with markets that reward constructive innovation.
But certainly a major challenge in the state-owned sector is to achieve innovation.
Open Innovation is a real force multiplier for AFRL. By opening this challenge up to the world through Innocentive, we were able to multiply the number of people thinking about this problem over 100-fold, and received a workable solution within a 60-day period.
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