The Boston Consulting Group's 2010 survey of innovation notes that the number of American companies on its list of top innovators is declining while the number of Indian companies is rising.
But as the Nikkei survey points out, innovation and technology will not be enough to win in the new competition.
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The BCG report details the major industry and company trends that have emerged since the survey began and maps the innovation landscape in four major industries that dominated the list in 2012 industrial products and processes, automotive, consumer and retail, and technology and telecommunications as well as in an industry that has struggled to regain its place: health care.
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The survey comes as the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (Dius) begins a new "graduate talent pool" as part of its internship programme.
The survey reveals a vital period of innovation and experimentation in Spain, but it also tells us something important about the state of architecture today.
Roughly 85% of all single-family homes in the U.S. have a garage, and 74% of homeowners with one say that parking cars is its most important use, according to a February survey of 987 homeowners by Home Innovation Research Labs, a subsidiary of the National Association of Home Builders.
Indeed, according to one recent European Commission survey, at the current rate of innovation, it would take 50 years for the E.
During the past year, Delta was named domestic "Airline of the Year" by the readers of Travel Weekly magazine, was named the "Top Tech-Friendly U.S. Airline" by PCWorld magazine for its innovation in technology and won the Business Travel News Annual Airline Survey.
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In this survey, CIOs told us exactly what they need: innovation to improve business performance, productivity and profitability.
My own company, Accept Corporation, recently conducted a survey with the AIPMM, which uncovered some key truths about the innovation process in large corporations.
Seventy-two percent of survey respondents in the Cognizant study believe that allowing employees to use social media encourages greater innovation.
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The survey, sponsored by Oracle, generated a range of insights into how companies wittingly or otherwise stifle innovation via obstacles that can be cultural, organizational, hierarchical, or some combination of those.
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