But the leadership team at Skanska is proving that anyone can apply innovation for high rates of return.
This is how America has always sparked the innovation and high-value manufacturing that creates long-term jobs and built enduring industries that have formed the foundation for generations of economic prosperity.
There are countries with extremely low fertility and extremely high levels of innovation (Hong Kong, Singapore), countries with a moderate level of fertility and moderate to high amounts of innovation (United States, Israel), and countries with both low fertility and low levels of innovation (Italy, Greece).
Sequoia also represents continued American leadership in high performance computing, key to the technology innovation that drives high-quality jobs and economic prosperity.
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In fact, his data shows that where people and policies favor the high-wage innovation workers, those with high-school degrees make a better income than those with college degrees do in the less favorable cities.
So, how does a small business maintain a competitive advantage in the face of pressure from high tech innovation and the primordial human desire for high touch connection?
It is equally important to note that innovation is a high priority for both companies.
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Only four months ago Google was in the former camp, though right now their innovation kudos is high.
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More important, display technology is a high innovation area with some promising opportunities for relocalization to the USA. US manufacturers and start-ups need to be thinking about that.
Their ability to manage open innovation can even build bridges between frugal and high-end innovation.
The High Street Innovation Fund was part of the government's response to Mary Portas' review of the High Street.
The money is part of the government's High Street Innovation Fund which was set up following the Portas Review.
Adjacency plays like that are where high risk innovation is played out by the likes of Apple and Amazon.
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Our movement forward as a nation depends on innovation, flexibility, high-speed competitive broadband and finding the best uses for spectrum.
Both of these countries have very high international innovation rankings and China is also moving up the innovation rankings very fast.
Ultimately, the question for many policy makers is whether advantages in clean energy innovation will translate into high growth clean energy firms that create jobs.
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But Iovine and HTC Chief Executive Peter Chou contend their companies share important qualities, such as a commitment to speed, innovation, design and high quality.
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For twenty years, up until 2001, the big EU agenda was how it could switch out of its crippling agricultural subsidies into high tech innovation.
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The results were limited competition, little innovation and sky-high prices.
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For now he is in a Lear-like rage against the storm of high-tech innovation.
Countries the world over have tried to develop a high-tech innovation cluster like Silicon Valley.
Innovation is not driven by high expenditure on research and development, but by the company's insights into consumer habits.
With the increased emphasis on the speed of filing, and the opportunities for innovation, the stakes are high for those who fail to understand and take action.
Apple relies far more on innovation than invention: the high-resolution retina screen, miniature drives, voice recognition and other technologies in their products were invented by someone else.
The list below instead comprises companies that have a high number of innovation references online as a proportion of all references to them, their brand products or services.
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Pittsburgh "has transformed itself from the city of steel to a center for high-tech innovation -- including green technology, education and training, and research and development, " the president said.
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