The awards are funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Judith Rodin of the Rockefeller Foundation said finding innovative ideas and expanding them to a large scale has proven to be hugely effective.

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It has grown enormously and really provides a way for students who have creative innovative ideas about how they could create social change, and the Pay Center works with them and tries to implement those ideas.

现在它的规模扩大了很多，真正能帮助,有创新思想的学生,实现社会的改革，和这些学生们一起工作,来实践这些理念。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So this was a very innovative piece of technology.

所以这是非常创新的一项技术。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

This is a center that cut across all of the MIT's Schools and departments, and tries to undertake innovative research in how different technologies, computer technologies, and communicational technologies can be used in educational settings.

这个中心的研究贯穿于,所有麻省理工的院系,研究不同的技术，计算机技术,通讯技术等,如何能够被不同地应用于,教育领域。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

We make software; we make technology; we're innovative ,but so are they So, what we really have to do is become a lot more productive and we have to make our companies a lot more competitive. Today, I feel we're losing that edge.

我们生产软件；发展工业技术;,我们有创新能力，但他们也有,所以，我们现在必须要做的就是提高生产效率,我们必须提高我国公司的竞争力,现在，我觉得在这方面我们正在丧失竞争优势。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选