Two Philadelphia programs, KEYSPOT and Philly Rising, employ this civic collaboration model for planning and implementation and serve as working models for innovative government.
The Advisory Council is working to identify areas in which innovative partnerships between government and faith-based and community organizations will yield results in serving individuals, families and communities.
Then Advisory Council and Taskforce members worked to identify where needs are most critical in their areas and recommend how improved and innovative partnerships between government and faith-based and community groups can help advance solutions.
By cataloguing each and every asset councils can help government find innovative new ways to utilise them, improve local services, keep council running costs down and save taxpayers' money.
Ms Williams believes the government should support innovative developments such as image-guided radiation therapy and stereotactic ablative radiotherapy, at the hospital.
This will require innovative thinking from both corporate and government interests.
Called the Lockheed Martin Silicon Valley Alliance, this technology hub will provide the federal government with greater visibility into innovative technology solutions developed locally, including affordable software and cyber security solutions.
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RFP-EZ has created a new online marketplace and built tools that make it easier for innovative small tech businesses to bid on government contracts, while also making it easier for government contracting officers to identify the bids that offer the best value for taxpayers.
Through an innovative regulatory process set up by the government and the regulator, the main barriers to the deployment of micro-power, such as grid access, are being addressed, and Britain is one of the first countries to have a clear, non-discriminatory access regulation for micro-generators that is supported by the regulator.
In that case, many companies will wake up from a government-funded hangover absent the innovative skills necessary to survive in a true meritocracy.
The two-year research project is being funded by the Technology Strategy Board, a government agency set up to find innovative ways of using technology.
Most of our work focuses on applying design thinking to help government and private sector clients find innovative ways to stabilize conflict-affected and poverty-afflicted environments.
But think about the enormous amount of time and energy that is wasted, the innovative activity that is prevented, by a government policy of supporting the issuance of software patents.
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Failure is to be expected with emerging, innovative companies, whether they are financed by the government or the private sector.
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And, through innovative, accessible platforms like data.gov, the government is unleashing more information than ever before to fuel innovation and entrepreneurship.
Publicly posting any types of administrative data collected by the federal government that might be useful to anyone developing innovative practices or approaches.
"Our targets are demanding and require innovative measures and effective partnerships, involving central and local government, the police and road safety organisations, " he said.
S. Professional Solutions enables companies and government bodies to find in one company the innovative expertise and high-tech solutions to efficiently manage their documents, information flows and IT infrastructures.
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And that includes innovative new partnerships so that, in tough fiscal times, our government is more efficient and serves you better.
Alternative financing is just one area where the Federal government is leading by example when it comes to finding innovative solutions to our energy and sustainability challenges.
Moreover, to the extent that firms devote resources to the procurement of government contracts, they must be taking resources from the innovative processes that made their products appealing to begin with.
How about a visit to the Shanghai Social Innovation Park, or The Nest (pictured above), which is a government-sponsored incubator with a special focus on assisting innovative entrepreneurs to set up and grow social enterprises to involve and assist the disadvantaged?
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Overall, 6.6% of 4, 400 newly diagnosed TB patients in the study, conducted at 18 clinics nationwide, were found to be drug resistant, an officer of the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, a nonprofit conducting the study for the Indian government, said at a private presentation last week.
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The money, almost twice what the government spent on the Human Genome Project, could help reinvigorate innovative small biotech firms that are having a tough time raising money in the private sector.
These events focused on opening up new government data sets, launching new prizes and challenges to spur innovative use of data, showcasing entrepreneurs who are developing new apps and services fueled by open data, and brainstorming new uses.
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In addition to removing regulatory barriers, the Commission continues to push ahead on innovative spectrum solutions in addition to traditional auctions, including incentive auctions, government-commercial sharing, technology-based opportunities like small cells, and freeing up unlicensed spectrum for innovations like Wi-Fi.
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So I think you're going to continue to see a very centralized form of government over there in the near term, but a lot of innovative thinking going on.
"The government has taken action to support the economy, including through its innovative Funding for Lending Scheme, which the report notes has already provided a significant boost to the mortgage market".
To that end, President Obama and Prime Minister Tusk announced the convening of a high-level U.S.-Poland Business Roundtable that would foster a collaborative government and private sector discussion to identify new commercial opportunities, promote innovative research and development cooperation, and to address obstacles that hinder commercial growth.
Why should competitors build innovative, ultra high-speed fiber networks that would provide real competition when the government is giving them a break on copper wire?
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