Develop a strategy for fostering the convergence of regional innovation systems at the global level.
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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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Meanwhile, our economic competitors are not making the same mistakes we are, and are continuing to publicly invest in their domestic energy innovation systems in a bid to capture the increasing economic rewards inherent to the burgeoning clean energy industry.
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Second-prize winner Humanure also had to develop a systems innovation to the problem they wanted to solve.
My colleague Professor Jeanne Liedtka and I have spent combined over 17 years studying innovation leaders, systems and processes.
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But you can lead organic, new, effective approaches to innovation in large systems by focusing on how you mix, rather than what goes in.
With the world heading towards a population of nine billion, Syngenta has come to realize that the only way to feed everyone is to foster as much innovation in food systems and technology as possible.
Similarly, our national future lies in being the systems integrator for innovation on a global scale, a role we are particularly well-positioned to play.
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a global leader providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, today announced that its multi-year collaboration with Samsung on FinFET technology has achieved a critical milestone: the successful tapeout of the first test chip on Samsung's 14LPE process.
We include in the list Gardeners like Claire Diaz-Ortiz at Twitter who is committed to getting everyone a voice and to spreading the power of purpose, author Ron Adner who thinks deeply about the cultivation of innovation across entire eco-systems and game changer Ray Chambers who helped lead the successful coalition at Malaria No More.
It is nothing short of an explosion in innovation and creativity, facilitated by open systems and connectivity.
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But we will all fare less well with less medical care (rationing is a fact of life--or death--in nationalized systems) and little pharmaceutical innovation.
Through a spectacular racing boat, RACE FOR WATER aims to promote innovation with universities by developing tools and systems to measure the water footprint and micro-plastic pollution in the oceans.
And as Baumol went on to point out productivity increases (the flip side of innovation) turn up faster in market based systems than in centrally planned ones.
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In terms of mobile operating systems, for instance, growth and innovation in the whole sector would benefit from more viable products (ideally four).
This is classic disruptive innovation where low end, good enough software and systems eat away at the functionality of existing high end scale-up architectures.
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Education innovation will require scalable, national, open, interoperable systems that support data feedback loops.
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These technologies raise barriers to innovation, because developers are forced to go through closed systems and pay for it.
On the other, it will level the playing field by ensuring that American entrepreneurs are handicapped by the same impediments to innovation that characterize non-U.S. patent systems.
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Joan Weiner, who has a degree in social systems sciences, notes that although approaching sustainable innovation in a holistic way holds the challenge of bringing together the complex, interrelated sets of pieces into a new and continually changing system, the benefits are potentially great.
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Indeed, the private sector has often complained that the commissioning and purchasing systems in the NHS have proved too complex to encourage innovation.
Cambrian Innovation, a company founded by Matt Silver while completing an MIT Engineering Systems PhD, has figured out a way to cut the amount of energy needed to treat wastewater.
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It goes on to outline a variety of ways in which broadband is improving the lives of people around the world, in m-health, distance education and m-learning, via m-payment systems, and in improving the lives of women, promoting innovation and fostering the acquisition of new skills.
This disconnect from the tools and systems eliminates the aspect of Von Hippel-like user-driven innovation that characterized Analyst 1.0.
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The innovation is happening swiftly, albeit subtly as cars build in hi-tech operating systems.
Admittedly, this American advantage in entrepreneurship and medical care innovation cannot be laid solely at the feet of our competitors having adopted national health systems.
These groups express a "my life stinks" view and show almost no innovation, initiative or ownership -- precisely the behaviors necessary to reform our intelligence systems.
At the same time, on the internal side, CIOs must be primarily concerned with bending the IT budget curve away from low-value legacy infrastructure and toward new technologies that liberate precious funding for innovation, because those rapidly emerging marketplace realities touched on above will simply overwhelm traditional systems and traditional IT approaches.
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If so, legacy systems are now aging faster than ever before, due to a rate of innovation that has never been seen before in history.
You need systems that reinforce workplaces that thrill with liveliness and inspire fierce passion so that innovation is as natural as drawing breath.
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