The world's Lafontaines cannot understand that overly-exacting exactions extinguish economic innovation and risk-taking.
It shows how important indie developers and startups are for innovation and risk-taking.
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Mr. Enders, who then ran Airbus, noted that every innovation carries risk.
Innovation takes risk, but Steve has managed to make the risk so unacceptably high that very few people are willing to take it.
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Innovation requires risk and it requires patience most inventions that are commonplace today are the results of thousands of iterations based both on success and failure.
And as the company moves into 2012, it will serve up continued innovation and risk-taking in the name of brand-building, Allen said in my recent interview with her.
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What all of these giant companies are trying to do is foster a continued spirit of innovation and risk-taking in a fast-moving environment where any mistake can leave a business floundering to catch up.
My worry, however, is that we risk conflating innovation with youth, risk institutionalizing a dangerous cognitive shortcut that may significantly underestimate the potential contribution of the over-40 crowd the demographic in which, full disclosure, I comfortably reside.
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"The U.S. economy will be stronger if we can continue to foster an entrepreneurial spirit and culture which generates innovation, risk taking and productivity growth that raises living standards to keep America the economic envy of the world, " Paulson told the Senate Finance Committee.
Without it, we risk losing our global lead on innovation, and we risk watching jobs and investment flow elsewhere.
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Bill Gates says the United States' position as the global leader in innovation is at risk.
But our longstanding tradition of being an open door for innovation is at risk.
Adjacency plays like that are where high risk innovation is played out by the likes of Apple and Amazon.
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Without a more secure body of prop-erty rights, China's impressive boom inevi-tably would have wound down as innovation and entrepreneurial risk-taking withered.
But wealthy patrons, record labels, and even angel investors most often put their needs first, compromising innovation and the risk-taking that fosters true creativity.
Innovation often requires risk.
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The anti-science campaigns propagated by some organisations seriously risk paralysing innovation in UK science.
We must learn to support entrepreneurs by creating an environment that rewards risk and innovation.
The bigger risk to innovation is not a lack of skilled workers but a lack of finance.
But we let our system -- a system designed for a different era -- fall way behind the curve of risk and innovation in this market.
The promotion focus on potential gain leads to speed, creativity, innovation, and embracing risk, while the prevention focus on avoiding loss leads to accuracy, careful deliberation, thoroughness, and a strong preference for the devil-you-know.
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Rising debt may reduce the value of the dollar, drive inflation, significantly reduce GDP growth, reduce innovation, and increase the risk of sudden fiscal crisis (collapse).
His views on the Welsh Civil Service are well known and much of the article criticised the hierarchical organisation, lack of innovation and failure to manage risk of the civil service as a whole.
If we miss this transition, we risk losing the innovation that has powered the past decade of economic and technological growth, and we leave an entire generation unprepared to meet and overcome the challenges they will face.
Because America continues to underinvest in clean energy innovation and competing countries continue to make gains, we risk not only losing clean energy manufacturing, but the innovation as well.
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Multiple suppliers vie for each component and push innovation, and the diversity lowers risk for Apple.
This could allow substantial innovation, but also has the risk that technology standards could be undermined.
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We risk clamping down on innovation and growth on the hopes that regulation and government controls can save us.
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