For example, southern Nevada and Arizona, already national leaders in solar energy innovation and production, could coordinate with universities and leading private solar developers to host a solar energy innovation center to conduct research on the entire solar energy supply chain.
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They have also made important new investments, stimulating innovation and production in the American economy.
Clearly, a government-only approach would be highly unlikely to deliver as any cursory examination of government-only innovation and production elsewhere shows.
"We've got great potential for agricultural innovation and production, " says Professor Bevan.
Not only would lower tax rates spur more innovation and production than any proposed subsidies, they would also liberate private capital to invest in energy independence.
Koch tends to invest in industries that convert raw materials into higher-value products, with complicated operations that require a lot of engineering talent and constant innovation in production methods.
Regardless of what the source was for the activity, what you had was a collision of demand and capital that led to a critical mass, an explosion growth of innovation and production.
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As they come to terms with a harsher reality, Japanese manufacturers are finding that many of the techniques for innovation and production that were honed in an era of plenty do not work so well today.
Reid said that he hoped the two countries could come together and be world leaders in clean energy innovation, manufacturing and production.
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As we all recognize, the Industrial Age made us smarter, wiser and faster, giving us the manufacturing innovation required for mass production, global domination and profit.
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They may not look inspiring, but deep in the recesses of their brains they have these little ideas--a fast-food restaurant concept no one has ever anticipated, an assembly-line innovation that can lower production costs by 50%, a retirement-plan wrinkle to save everyone's 401(k)--and, someday, assuming they can find their toothbrushes amid the stash of moisturizing-cream bottles in their travel bags, they are going to realize their dreams.
If current trends continue, China will effectively become the principal market driver in many sectors, including telecom, on the basis of consumption, production, and innovation.
For persons residing in the latter camp, the profit motive drives competition and innovation that leads to efficient production and quality enhancements in the private sector, and they believe that the same market forces can be harnessed to improve the efficiency and quality of education provision.
"One should remind oneself that the production of new technologies of innovation is in very many cases linked to small and medium sized companies, " he said.
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Thus, a dynamic and interdependent relationship exists between contemporary art production, popular culture, technological innovation, and policy debate.
We need to move to a system where new drugs are priced as close to the cost of production as possible - and where innovation is paid for and rewarded separately.
There is absolutely nothing at all in being an entrepreneur that requires either invention or innovation: it is about the organisation of the factors of production.
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HP, outsource their production and, increasingly, much of their design and innovation.
She learned quickly: She began as a production supervisor at the main brewery before switching to the innovation group in 2010, then becoming head of the pilot brewery last year.
Rather than simply subsidize production of current technologies, we need a comprehensive energy innovation strategy to develop, manufacture, and deploy riskier but more promising clean energy technologies that may eventually compete with fossil energy at scale.
The reorganisation of production along global lines is not simply the technological or managerial innovation you portray.
But the key to economic growth is not just the low cost of production, it's the value added--the innovation, design or better architecture, or the sheer intangible of exciting fashion.
The grounding of the 787 fleet illustrates not the flaws in Boeing's industrial culture -- a rush to bring the airliner to market, a degree of over-innovation or a desire to please shareholders by outsourcing too much design and production -- but the rigor of a regulatory regime with a zero tolerance of any mote of imperfection.
By re-thinking how the federal government can foster innovation and competitiveness in clean energy, from education and research to commercialization and production, the United States can once again become a global leader in clean energy technology.
Globalization allowed the U.S. to specialize in the creative aspect of things, the risk-taking production of concepts and ideas--that is, the scalable part of production, in which more income can be generated from the same fixed assets through innovation.
Trends include the globalization of trade and interconnected nature of supply chains, the growing importance of innovation and information technology to competitiveness, and the rise of overseas markets as a critical source of production and economic opportunity.
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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.
When someone is able to ban production of something simply because it is rectangular with rounded corners then the balance between encouraging original innovation and secondary innovation seems to have been upset.
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This publication was launched during the Plenary Thematic Session ' Indigenous Knowledge and Science: From Recognition to Knowledge Co-production' on 13 June 2012 during the five-day Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development, in Rio de Janeiro.
Production of many goods today is spread throughout the globe, which keeps costs down for consumers and allows innovation to spread more rapidly through increased competition.
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