In other words, innovation is less a product of structured processes and more a result of informal conversations.

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They may brandish words like courage, innovation, and integrity, but look closely at the real message.

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Innovation, in other words, is its version of social mobility.

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In other words, although this contest has ended, the innovation has just begun.

WHITEHOUSE: Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog

In other words, the United States is underinvesting in clean energy innovation at a time where we need more next-generation clean energy technologies, not less.

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With all this talk of innovation, I often think whether the focus on words like efficiency and IT optimization haven taken a back seat?

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In other words, China is ideally placed to be the world's middleman: close enough to the frontier of innovation to keep up with the latest developments, and skilled at adapting new ideas for the mass market.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

In other words, to accept the requirement to manufacture advanced products locally is to accept the requirement to accelerate the pace of innovation at the company headquarters.

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