Architects such as Dankmar Adler, Daniel Burnham, John Wellborn Root and Louis Sullivan, making use of such innovations as steel, lifts and electricity, soon developed the skyscraper.
At the 3rd Women Deliver global conference on May 28-30 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, we will shine a spotlight on the global solutions and innovations that are making a difference in the lives of girls and women, from family planning to education to empowerment.
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Thanks to fabric innovations, designers keep making prints and patterns that look exciting and new panoramic skyline prints were among this year's novelties.
Innovations in mobile technologies are making the mobile Internet increasingly ubiquitous and powerful.
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Even so, recent innovations in social policy may be making it more attractive to remain in the informal economy.
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Given the massive growth in the amount of data that is becoming available and the innovations of startups like WiseWindow that are making such data useful for business, it is only natural that the audience for consuming the insights gained from such data will be expanded through activity streams.
Sustaining innovations improve current highly profitable goods or services, making them even more profitable.
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Mr Baumol reckons that, on average, less than 20% of the total economic benefits of innovations go to those who invest directly or indirectly in making them happen.
That means rewarding them for shifting up a gear from making incremental improvements to their existing products, to coming up with radical innovations that rewrite the market rules.
Unlike product innovations, systems innovations are nearly impossible to protect with patents and are rarely backed by tangible assets, making them much less attractive to investors and therefore much harder to launch and develop.
Long before innovations like bunless sandwiches and boneless ribs, Disney began harnessing the power of limited availability by making its movies available for limited periods.
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