This critical early-stage support offers companies more time to focus on innovation and internal development, allowing them to differentiate themselves from their competitors more effectively.
The Forum provides a platform for the science, technology and innovation community to discuss sustainable development challenges and solutions with policy-makers and other stakeholders.
Scrum built on what had been learned in Toyota and elsewhere on how to manage innovation and took that thinking to a new level in software development.
Karl Ulrich: The main idea behind an innovation tournament is to generate or identify a large number of innovation opportunities, and then to use one or more development steps and filters in order to identify those few that are really exceptional.
Participants are exploring the key role of interdisciplinary science and innovation in the transition to sustainable development, a green economy and poverty eradication.
Efforts focus on accelerating adoption of smart devices, empowering small and medium-sized businesses, and raising skills development to ignite African innovation for the continent and for the world.
In order to spur the development of innovation and entrepreneurship in desktop fabrication and 3D printing, the Kauffman Foundation, Maker Education Initiative and Inventables launched the Desktop Fabrication Competition on the iStart platform last summer.
These networks become poles of excellence and innovation that actively contribute to the development of their respective fields at national, regional and international levels.
We believe it is our responsibility to encourage creative product development and to curb practices that compromise innovation.
All of us are going to be interested in innovation and research and development.
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Committee chair Tim Yeo MP said Britain risked missing out on creating a "world class industry" by failing to harness UK creativity and innovation in the development of CCS technologies.
Irving John Good famously described the development of an ultraintelligent machine as the "last invention that man need ever make, " for after that, humanity would cede innovation and technological development to its smarter progeny.
The main challenge for CEO Tim Cook and Apple longer term is whether or not he and the company can continue to foster the same culture of innovation and consumer-focused product development that made Apple what it is today.
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Over the last 30 months, my i-GATE efforts have created a proactive, two-way link between national laboratories and entrepreneurs, industry, innovation networks, venture capital firms, universities, business support services, and economic development resources in order to accelerate the commercialization of innovative energy technologies and grow a cohesive innovation ecosystem.
Corporate research and development will therefore have to engage in open innovation to become more of a curator and an incubator of great ideas.
The Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development provided a platform to strengthen dialogue between researchers, governments, policy-makers and civil society to produce the knowledge and technology needed to build sustainable, green societies.
There is a better way for donors and development institutions to light the world, and it is also an innovation in its own right: results-based finance.
Additionally, the cable companies and Verizon Wireless have formed an innovation technology joint venture for the development of technology to better integrate wireline and wireless products and services.
Through this mechanism, the Secretary-General and UN agencies will be provided with comprehensive advice on all of the dimensions of science, technology and innovation for sustainable development, as well as on how to promote cooperation among various UN agencies and with the international scientific community.
Such approach to the use and development of software encourages innovation and skills-building.
The company today also announced the opening of a new Automotive Innovation and Product Development Center, to be based in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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What are we doing in terms of research and development to make sure that innovation is still taking place here in the United States of America?
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Both of these acquisitions came quickly on the heels of Lenovo's announcement of a global partnership with EMC, forming a server technology development program to help drive innovation and extend Lenovo's capabilities in x86 industry-standard servers.
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Thus, if Scrum and Agile are focused on the traditional business goal of making money for shareholders, rather than delighting the customer, then there is a risk that the huge gains in productivity that Scrum and Agile generate will be used to downsize the software development staff, thereby killing the very creativity and innovation that are responsible for the gains.
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Still, as people get accustomed to innovation, the lead time between a new development and its acceptance shrinks.
PayPal is currently working to accelerate innovation by simplifying its product organization and creating more agile development teams.
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As an interesting new book by Alan W. Brown, Enterprise Software Delivery: Bringing Agility and Efficiency to the Global Software Supply Chain (Addison Wesley, 2012), points out the consequent shift from software development to software delivery, combining constant innovation and control at the enterprise level.
The Energy Innovation Hubs aim to develop innovation through a unique approach, where scientists and engineers from many disciplines work together to overcome the scientific barriers of development.
This enabled him to be able to distinguish between trendy clap trap, and genuine educational innovation and newsworthy development.
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