Soon after, these same mentors and bosses shared these ideas in team meetings.

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Although these ideas engage members of the community, this same concept of crowdfunding and competition can be used to engage employees in your company.

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However, if patents to protect these discoveries are used to restrict other applications involving the same genes then many promising ideas for new treatments may never receive the investor support necessary to develop them and we will all be worse off.

ECONOMIST: Letters

More than a one-off event taking place, the Forum is a 2-year process that enables youth to submit their recommendations to representatives of 195 Member-States, while at the same time mobilizing these youth in undertaking concrete follow-up action to support the implementation of their ideas.

UNESCO: THEMES

Engine has done the important work in encouraging the people with energy and ideas to literally sit at the same table with the people who make the laws that will either help or hurt their ability to bring these ideas to fruition.

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