Yet as long as these subsidies and tax credits exist, clean-energy executives will likely spend most of their time pursuing advanced legal and accounting methods rather than investing in studies, innovation, new transmission technology and turbine development.

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"They don't care when or where their employees get the job done, as long as they get the results, " says Thomson, adding that studies show flexible hours usually increase both innovation and productivity.

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Studies have shown this has no correlation to innovation impact on the organization.

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Universities need to work on case studies and directly with entrepreneurs and companies to get innovation going.

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"The most successful people tend to be those with the most failures, " says Dr. Simonton, author of more than 500 studies and articles and 12 books on creativity and innovation.

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There are countless books, monographs, studies, articles and blogs addressing the issues of leadership and innovation, and more coming every day.

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Undertake, in cooperation with universities and research institutes, policy research and sector studies for the reform or restructuring of national science, technology and innovation systems as part of the economic reform or structural adjustment programmes of Member States.

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See, for example, the scaling innovation structures inherent in Quantified Self that has engaged individuals so efficiently in large self-monitoring studies that it now spawns startups and attracts partnerships with organizations as diverse medical device firms and university research centers.

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