But first, though, Startup America, the Presidential play in the innovation space.
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And defying to the perception of the UK as the only key innovator for the social economy (no doubt in part due to the comparative advantage of the English language as the global transmitter of ideas, compared to French or German), continental Europe is emerging as an innovation space for the new role of government in social entrepreneurship.
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Many of the ideas were enshrined in the Space Innovation and Growth Strategy (Space-IGS) published in 2010.
We follow the innovation in that space, and I've seen some prototypes that are really, really different.
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We use a set of concepts in the innovation and design space that are familiar and comfortable but aging and tired.
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As part of this push, the government last year inaugurated the International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC) based at Harwell in Oxfordshire.
Also, many civil society organizations are driving best practices and innovation in the space, so governments have much to learn from them.
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In February 2010, President Obama announced a plan to make technology innovation and commercial space travel the centerpiece of his space strategy.
BeeWi may not be a well-known name in the audio world, but the company's bringing some innovation to the space with its new Bluetooth headphones.
The Watson system developed by IBM Research is a key innovation in this space, and over a hundred partners have adopted its Big Data platform already.
If TripAdvisor in unable to keep up with rapid innovation in this space, it faces the risk of losing out a growing user base of online travel searches via mobile devices.
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If online travel agencies fail to keep up with innovation in this space, they face the risk of losing out a growing user base of online travel bookings via mobile devices.
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"This partnership agreement for the use of expandable habitats represents a step forward in cutting-edge technology that can allow humans to thrive in space safely and affordably, and heralds important progress in U.S. commercial space innovation, " NASA deputy chief Lori Garver said in a statement.
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As I've written before, government and industry in the UK now have a joint plan to push the space sector forward, and Science Minster David Willetts has been steadily working through a checklist that broadly follows the recommendations in the Space Innovation and Growth Strategy (S-IGS) published in 2010.
Boxee now supports HTML5 apps, which means that if you write an HTML page designed for 10ft it will work on any Boxee and Google TV devices, and hopefully other platforms will embrace this trend rather than try and invent their own platforms, which makes life hard for content owners, developers and ultimately slows down innovation in this space.
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We look forward to continuing to work with Congress, the wireless and mobile phone industries, and most importantly you -- the everyday consumers who stand to benefit from this greater flexibility -- to ensure our laws keep pace with changing technology, protect the economic competitiveness that has led to such innovation in this space, and offer consumers the flexibility and freedoms they deserve.
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We look forward to continuing to work with Congress, the wireless and mobile phone industries, and most importantly you the everyday consumers who stand to benefit from this greater flexibility to ensure our laws keep pace with changing technology, protect the economic competitiveness that has led to such innovation in this space, and offer consumers the flexibility and freedoms they deserve.
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We've got to be willing to invest in viable space for innovation, not just specific ideas that we can already explain and understand.
Side-scrollers went out of style for a while, but it turns out there was plenty of innovation in the 2D space remaining to be coded.
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When it comes to applying innovation, use White Space teams.
There is still a lot of space for innovation in the world of food and agriculture, especially if you begin to think outside the box of American commercial agriculture.
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In addition to these two major planned campuses, Samsung Electronics is expanding its Open Innovation efforts with additional space that will allow for incubating and acquiring new technologies and working with early stage companies.
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While we applaud the FTC for exercising its authority to investigate clear privacy harms, and as a pathway to seeking privacy policy answers, this settlement has the potential to actually damage transparency and innovation in the privacy space.
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Michael Cembalest, chief investment officer of JP Morgan, says he is more interested in areas that work to counter-act rising food prices by adding innovation and expanded planting space, like seed companies, infrastructure and harvesting equipment makers, grain processors and fertilizer companies, than in agricultural commodities, which may be risky if conditions change earlier than expected.
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Just as open data has been used to fuel multi-billion dollar industries in other sectors, like the weather industry that uses raw satellite data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has spent the last few years nurturing entrepreneurial innovation in the health space through open government data.
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But for all of the innovation in the video app space, there remains a problem.
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Simply put, it has been too easy to succeed without undertaking the sort of disruptive innovation that builds new market space.
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As more schools embraced online education, smaller, less well-known colleges and for-profit universities drove further innovation in the online education space.
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This is not only less expensive for GM, but it also lets it ride on the much faster innovation happening in the mobile space.
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