In short, the Internet has become the key innovation engine of the 21st century economy.
The innovation engine and superior market understanding are the only core competences a scalpel company will need to own.
The Accenture innovation engine risks a continuation of product innovation and the trench warfare that has characterized the food industry.
Perhaps Monitor could have survived if it had broken itself into two pieces: a cash cow and an innovation engine.
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It is time for IT organizations to kick off this journey to becoming a recognized business innovation engine in their companies and beyond.
James McNerney, a former boss of 3M, a manufacturer, damaged the company's innovation engine by trying to apply six-sigma principles (which are intended to reduce errors on production lines) to the entire company, including the research laboratories.
In this future of media, as Mathew Ingram wrote at GigaOm, big data meets journalism, in the same way that startups see data as an innovation engine, or civic developers see data as the fuel for applications.
For example, almost a hundred years separated the steam engine innovation and its peak technology deployment in the British economy.
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Innovation is the engine of the global economy he says, which is the central thesis of his book, by the way.
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It has fueled all kinds of innovation and is the engine of worldwide economic growth.
Large companies need to be aware that in this environment becoming an anchor customer can be an engine for innovation and growth.
For centuries, intellectual property protection has been the engine of innovation.
"Open source has become an engine for innovation in the smart phone and consumer electronics market, " said Teppo Hemia, vice president, 3G Multimedia Platforms Business Unit of ST-Ericsson.
With so much turmoil in the venture capital business, from the rise of competing super-angel investors to tepid fund returns for the past 10 years to some big IPO duds this year from the likes of Facebook, the future of this economic engine of innovation is pretty murky.
At a time when other countries are actively investing in energy innovation to remain competitive, the House Continuing Resolution proposal would weaken the engine of American growth: innovation.
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He came into the Forbes Studios recenlty to talk to me about engine design and innovation and how he became intersted in technology.
"The Creative Destruction of Medicine" an allusion to economist Joseph Schumpeter's description of "creative destruction" as an engine of business innovation is a venture capitalist's delight, describing dozens of medical technologies that show great promise.
And while the rest of the nation wonders when the hemorrhaging will end, Silicon Valley is bucking this economic trend and once again proving that innovation and ingenuity can be the engine that drives our country out of these hard times.
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Yesterday, in Cedar Rapids, I proposed a new economic blueprint for 21st century America, a plan to create new jobs, to make a commitment to clean energy and innovation, which will be a job engine and creator, just as it is being now here in Iowa, to restore fairness to our economy.
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In the past, the Pentagon was an engine of economic growth and technological innovation.
In the case of Famo.us, the innovation has been to bypass the webkit render engine by writing a new, higher-performance engine.
"I think an Obama presidency will share the same interest and concerns of our members and the rest of the American public, and that's get the engine of growth going, get innovation going again, get job creation growing, " Josten says.
The key to meeting these challenges -- to improving our health and well-being, to harnessing clean energy, to protecting our security, and succeeding in the global economy -- will be reaffirming and strengthening America's role as the world's engine of scientific discovery and technological innovation.
Technology powers not only business innovation within many companies but also serves as the engine driving our robust economy.
The Competence Centre Stuttgart Partnership, which reports to the Mayor, is the main engine of this effort, harnessing local innovation, developing quality criteria for further education, and building strong networks with businesses.
And the basic idea of the innovation strategy is that America has been the great innovative engine of the entire world for many years.
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine.
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Small-jet innovation and sales are booming, but the poor relations, those single-engine Archers, Skyhawks and Bonanzas, sell at a shadow of their 1970s peak.
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