To build a runway for a successful product take-off, traits like innovation, market intuition, leadership competency, growth strategy, team agility, and funding matter.
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The Starbucks experience underscores the fact that America can successfully compete even in utterly un-high-tech products and services as long as we have an environment that encourages Starbucks-like innovation.
To borrow an analogy, cutting the deficit by cutting investments in areas like education, areas like innovation -- that's like trying to reduce the weight of an overloaded aircraft by removing its engine.
But even a grassroots effort like the Innovation Movement needs support from influential leaders, writers and pundits to form it into a true political movement.
Like any innovation, crowdfunding has both supporters and detractors.
The fact that the Youngers are black now seems less like an innovation than a detail, though it's marvelous to see how precisely Ms. Hansberry caught the tone of black life in the 1950s.
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We are seeing positive results in terms of job creation and economic impact from federal regional innovation programs, like the Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge and i6, which have been awarded to public-private collaborations across the United States, including my home state of Ohio.
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Responsible and successful open innovation is like a tsunami rushing across the innovation landscape of both B2C and B2B companies.
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They may brandish words like courage, innovation, and integrity, but look closely at the real message.
This seems like a timely innovation and one that makes the spread of one-way interviews all the more likely.
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Instead, we should implement reforms like the Immigration Innovation Act, which would nearly double the number of H-1B visas for high-skilled foreign workers.
The initiative recognizes the importance of encouraging young people to develop skills like creativity, innovation and collaboration that will prepare the next generation of leaders in our global economy.
But innovation like this takes time, patience, and money.
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And we owe the American people a government that lives within its means while still investing in our future -- in areas like education, innovation, and infrastructure that will help us attract new jobs and businesses to our shores.
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We could create new challenge prizes (like the Ansari 'X' Prize) and agencies which deliberately drive innovation ( like Darpa in the US).
David Landes's grand backward look at the world explains its development not just through concepts like property rights and industrial innovation, but also through inventions like the plough, the windmill and eyeglasses.
The Sunshot initiative and other key technology innovation programs like the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E), embody the kind of smart innovation policy that holds the promise of fundamentally transforming the economy and ushering in a new era of U.S. technology leadership.
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Countries the world over have tried to develop a high-tech innovation cluster like Silicon Valley.
Yet except for remote check capture via mobile phones from banks like USAA, real innovation remains elusive.
This sort of innovation feels like part of the actual future that's arrived slightly early, the opposite of futuristic.
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 interface is along the lines of other Android devices, but offers innovation tweaks like browser tabs and Snapdragon-powered photo flipping.
Because their dominant culture of 99% defect-free operational excellence squashes any attempts at innovation just like a Sumo wrestler sitting on a small gymnast.
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Rapid Prototyping technologies like 3D printers, laser cutters, and shared workspaces like TechShop are democratizing innovation in the physical world of atoms.
While JetBlue is known for product innovation, like stylish in-flight TV and extended leg room, these innovations can be copied quickly by competitors.
While companies like Dell went crowdsourcing innovation Nokia tried to buy its way into the affections of thought leaders with the Ideas Project.
Dozens of governments around the world, from China's to Chile's, have realized this fact and are pouring resources into developing their national innovation muscles like there is no tomorrow.
Whenever I try to conjure up what innovation looks like, the same slideshow of images clicks across my mind: that photo of Einstein with his tongue sticking out, Edison with his light bulb, Steve Jobs onstage in his black turtleneck, introducing the latest iThing.
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