It is easy to see why many defenders of diversity decry the passing of previous cultures, favoring stasis over innovation.
As Tim Wu has pointed out patents centralize control over innovation.
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And this underlines why it is that we obsess over innovation.
But it could also be that the move towards open mobile presents new opportunities for Chinese companies to exert the control over innovation they crave.
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Supporting upstart entrepreneurs over big, stagnant corporations and innovation over institutional inertia should be a liberal credo, too.
Technology firms counter that to restrict companies according to how their technology is used by customers would hand media firms a veto power over technical innovation any time it seems to threaten their interests.
The grounding of the 787 fleet illustrates not the flaws in Boeing's industrial culture -- a rush to bring the airliner to market, a degree of over-innovation or a desire to please shareholders by outsourcing too much design and production -- but the rigor of a regulatory regime with a zero tolerance of any mote of imperfection.
Of course Apple and Google have kicked their butt in growth and innovation over the past few years.
The message to CEOs should be simple and clear: focus on innovation over financial manipulation to fuel value.
Those exits and strategy shifts, in turn, impact innovation over the long run.
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But there seems to be more entrepreneurial innovation over at Firefox.
In fact, the looming threat of IPAB, increasing barriers at FDA and failure of our capital markets, have already reduced VC financing for early medical innovation over 50% in the past five years.
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Ideas platforms have become a mainstay of the innovation process over the past decade.
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My colleague Professor Jeanne Liedtka and I have spent combined over 17 years studying innovation leaders, systems and processes.
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All things tech and gadgetry this week have fallen into the long shadow that Steve Jobs cast over the world of innovation.
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Lightspeed and Google Ventures endorse our view of innovation winning over regulation.
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Thanks to this innovation, over the years the social-security deficit was first checked and then turned into surplus in the three years from 1999.
Critics will continually argue over the level of innovation that accompanies each Apple product, but they rarely argue about the overall quality of these devices.
Patents, which usually give the holder a monopoly over the process or innovation protected for 20 years, are also becoming more difficult and costly to challenge.
Victor Hugo placed this thought into our collective consciousness in reflection of the days of the French Revolution and the Napleonic era, but it has since been such translated and paraphrased from the literal statement many times over in reference to innovation.
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Experts in the pharmaceutical industry are hopeful that this sustained bolus of new medicines is evidence that drug companies are coming out of a severe innovation drought over the last decade that saw the number of new medicines fall to little more than half its current level.
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That, in fact, most current green companies and initiatives are antithetical to the Silicon Valley attitude: they are born beholden to the government or non-profit foundations, they place political goals and utopian visions before pragmatic solutions, they mostly focus on incremental improvements over free-swinging innovation and category creation, and most will never, ever, be profitable.
Over the past 15 years innovation has helped set the company apart from fierce competitors.
Government influence over technology invariably slows down innovation, favours powerful players, increases costs and encumbers engineering with political squabbles.
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Drag France away from its drive to over regulate everything and throttle innovation.
Particularly noteworthy this past year was definition of a specific framework and process for evaluating the performance of the Social Innovation Fund itself over the next five years relative to the expectations of Congress and the Administration.
"With Xperia Z, we are bringing over half a century of innovation in TV, imaging, music, film and gaming to create a superphone experience that truly stands out, " said Kuni Suzuki, President and CEO, at Sony Mobile Communications.
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The real innovation there is over.
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