One of the things that slightly annoys me in business is that we use words like innovation. Young people often think innovation is about doing something new, but actually it’s not. It’s about doing something better than your competition.
The neutral and level playing field provided by permissionless innovation has empowered all of us with the freedom to express ourselves and innovate online without having to seek the permission of a remote telecom executive.
As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today’s education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.
Legal immigrants have been an engine of economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship on this continent for longer than we have been a nation.
If you’re looking at a country like India, the basic subsistence in itself creates its own challenges. So I think that lends to a different level of innovation and a different level of entrepreneurship.
Innovation happens best when people of different backgrounds come together to solve the world’s toughest challenges and, in the process, can create new jobs and opportunities. I’m hopeful that updated immigration policies will encourage entrepreneurs from around the world to help tackle these opportunities in the U.S.
Innovation is a big risk. It can also be a big reward – but a big punishment if you fail.
I think, particularly in our tech industry, this is an industry that has violent innovation and then commoditization, and it’s a cycle of innovation/commoditization.
The Obama Administration cares deeply about innovation and about helping to make sure that geeks across the country, those coming up with new discoveries and exciting inventions – and creating jobs along the way – have the freedom and security to keep innovating.
If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It’s intense to fight the red tape.
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.
Innovation and thoughtful visual storytelling are deeply woven into the fabric of Getty Images.
Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
I’m supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project’s ambition – to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship – is something I feel strongly about.
All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.
The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
The term ‘innovative’ or ‘innovation’ is often vague or ambiguous. But in our definition, innovation means to make something which people think impossible possible.
I don’t know if it’s a uniquely American thing, but I associate it that way. People get excited by this idea of, ‘Let’s come together and defeat this huge enemy through innovation, by solving this crisis.’ I think that’s motivating and inspiring.
Let’s face it: innovation in the U.S. is now the province of our thriving city-states. We all know that nothing happens in Washington anymore.
Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.
I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style – it’s the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.
Young people are the entrepreneurs of the future, and we should be looking to them as one of our sources of innovation for the high streets of tomorrow.
What’s important for all of us as chip companies is to keep the innovation going: putting out new products, figuring out how we connect these complex systems.
Innovation will come from an ecosystem of pervasive computing so natural and all-encompassing that it disappears into the background.
This innovation machine that’s evolution, we can use it to do all sorts of interesting things.
There are some designers who flash and burn – Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And I don’t think that longevity is always a badge of honor. Modern brand management means that we are always celebrating birthdays, when what is exciting about fashion is innovation, not repetition.
I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They’re hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.
The FCC should facilitate, rather than frustrate, innovation.
The danger of writing a so-called thriller is that in your last 100 pages, all of these really interesting characters you’ve created are just running away from something or toward something, but they’re no longer capable of innovation or discovery.
You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the bulk of it was built by people who came to America from somewhere else, not people born American. We have no birthright or natural lock on these things.
Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and the quality of political leadership.
America has the greatest military in the world, and it’s up to our leaders to set the bar for what a 21st century military culture of innovation with transparent, collaborative leadership looks like.
What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?
From the beginning, we have fostered a culture that embraces our entrepreneurial spirit and values innovation that puts our customers first.
I’m in favour of innovation, just as long as the game does not suffer for it.
A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
The enemy online is fast. They are ruthless. They prey on the vulnerable and disenfranchised. They use the very best of innovation for the most evil of ends.
All of our intelligence agencies, our Department of Defense, are all working to meet this threat. But it’s a fast moving world; it’s a place where offense is easier than defense, and keeping up with the next innovation in cyber-warfare is an enormous challenge.
Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.
Norway has had a carbon tax in place for a long time. This has not slowed down industrial development. Rather, it has encouraged innovation and the development of solutions that reduce emissions and bring down operating costs.
If the whole U.S. was like Silicon Valley, we’d be in good shape. But now, the entire U.S. is not driven by technology, is not driven by innovation.
Finding innovative ways to deliver vaccines to children in developing countries is at the heart of our work. The very fact that we don’t have people on the ground but rather work in an alliance with other organizations is itself an innovation that was the basis of GAVI’s establishment in 2000.
I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can’t name you 20 people outside those we’ve already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.
When the DS was first announced, our focus really was on communicating to consumers and to developers the innovation that’s in that unit: two screens, a touch screen, voice activation.
Innovation hubs are going to be in cities focused on the industries and clients of that city. So in Houston, it’s focused on our industrial companies, particularly the energy sector, robotics, and automation.
On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.
I recently had the opportunity to participate in Inc.’s first-ever ‘Hire Power Awards’ event in Washington, D.C. The event was a testament to the power of American entrepreneurship and the role that it plays in driving job creation and innovation in a wide array of industries.
Innovation is what we’re going to need for the future, and that’s always been a part of the technology industry.
We are a wealthy country. We also are the global engine of innovation in health care, whether it’s the pharmaceutical industry or the creation of medical devices.
When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that’s when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root.
Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.
One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.
There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.
