Sentences with phrase «innovation if this year»

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If you've had enough of the market's ups and downs this year, spare some sympathy for Westport Innovations» shareholders.

If we look back a few years, we can see the stunning innovation that's occurred in so many areas.

«It is amazing how many people will spend years and hundreds of thousands of dollars on concepts that people «really like» without ever asking them if they would buy it,» says Matt Ferguson, president and CEO of Progressive Health Innovations.

(Imagine if the $ 110 million / year spent on lobbying went to disruptive innovation.)

And, somewhat clumsily, I ask Repin a question that's been on my mind since attending last year's Open Innovations: If Moscow's tech corridor has already failed to take root on its own, what is the point of all this?

Even if the economy perks up with GDP matching those of the past 30 years or technological innovations shoot ahead, returns on investments will still fall short.

Only the combined company will have the network capacity required to quickly create a broad and deep 5G nationwide network in the critical first years of the 5G innovation cycle — the years that will determine if American firms lead or follow in the 5G digital economy.

If you have read that 2018 will be the year of ethereum, one reason is that the crypto network is designed to facilitate innovation.

KFC innovation manager Louise Direito said: «If pulled pork was the dish of 2014, then 2015 will become the year of pulled chicken.

Unlike former CCA chief executive Terry Davis, who claimed new niche products barely moved the dial, Ms Watkins believes product innovation is worth the investment even if it takes months or years to achieve returns.

If you're one of the many IPA fans, then give these beers a whirl to find what style suits you best — then check back next year for even more IPA innovations...

The budget, «if enacted, would significantly damage the nation's role as the global leader of research and innovation, and would roll back years of bipartisan support from Congress,» said Benjamin Corb, public affairs director for the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Rockville, Maryland, in a statement.

Many innovations imposed on science teachers over the past few years, including those in the National Curriculum in Science, have concentrated on improving the curriculum, as if that by itself would improve science teaching.

If NAMII proves successful and perhaps even financially self - sustaining by the time its federal funding is used up within three years, the U.S. government could use its lessons to build the rest of a $ 1 billion manufacturing innovation network proposed by the Obama administration.

If brain size had anything to do with innovation and creativity, some scientists expected to see a link between the so - called Mind's Big Bang (the emergence of bone tools and cave paintings that occurred between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago) and the emergence of modern - size human brains.

If the development of mass communication technologies during this period made the war seem more real to civilians, a very different stream of technological innovation reflected the grim actualities of war during the years afterward.

NutraSilver is an innovation and here's why it's something that will change your life and your health, even if you're already one of the 10 million colloidal silver users in the United States and have been for years.

If you've felt like classical Pilates has gotten stale over the past several years, then this is the innovation and the brand new energy that you and your class are yearning for.

Even if an educational innovation had been in place for years, if the personal concerns of those responsible for instituting that change were not adequately addressed, the innovation would be a hollow shell of its full potential.

The funding disparity between charter and district students is ugly, the system is broken, and if we are going to fuel the next 20 years of charter school innovation and growth, we need to fix it.

«If we can end the year with that same sort of feeling, why, you will have done a really good job, and so will the president and so will we; and we can step back and let the teachers and the school boards and the states have this new era of innovation.»

What's preventing innovation are two things: One is the No Child Left Behind legislation, which says you will be judged by test scores and if your scores don't go up every year, you may have your school penalized and eventually, your school may be closed; all the teachers may be fired; the principal may be fired.

It's hard to say if those numbers will prove true, but after one year on the market with a lot of new innovation on the way, I'd say five percent isn't a bad start at all.

The underlying trend with digital innovation shows we are set fair to perform well, and if the wider economic performance improves in the coming year, that will help.»

With such a positive response for the Tablet S we expect the company will focus on the strength of its recognizable design and veer away from experimenting with more unique form factors, but don't be surprised if Sony pulls out another quirky tablet innovation sometime this year.

So here's a thought experiment: if for one year all copyright were to be revoked (or demoted to a Creative Commons - like attribution - only license) would innovation increase worldwide, or would the opposite happen?

If today's five and 10 year olds fail to develop that connection with animals and the desire to own one, the pet industry will face an impoverished market and a rapidly dwindling customer base that will no longer be able to support an industry thriving with perpetual product innovation and an abundance of small, independent retailers.

Criticise its lack of core innovation if you must, but millions upon millions of fans who keep coming back for more year on year can't be wrong.

Nintendo will defend its products and its innovations, even if it must do so multiple times in different places and over many years.»

If you look at games over 14 years on you'll see many games that haven't even come close to approaching that what would be considered innovation.

If you're not a PC gamer, you probably haven't paid much attention to these kinds of innovations in display tech over the last few years, but FreeSync - like NVIDIA's rival G - Sync - is a technology that eliminates frame - tearing, that frustrating effect where the image on your screen displays a weird horizontal tear due to graphics parts struggling to render frames fast enough to keep up with the action.

So whilst the premise remains solid and still has the impact it did in FIFA 11, the lack of new features or innovation this year makes you wonder if EA have decided that it's as good as it needs to be.

One has to ask if it were some groundbreaking innovation why would it be abandoned and why wouldn't it lead to many fruitful years of mining?

If that modernist innovation collage is 100 years old, so also is the tradition of speaking of visual abstract works in terms of the musical structure of the fugue.

Karl Schroeder: If there is any life on Earth in 100 years, I foresee either an ecological catastrophe, with the majority of species extinct, the oceans stagnant, the arctic and Antarctic desolate and lifeless, and billions of people living in complete ignorance of how things could be, in massive urban centres; or, a world in which climate change was solved early and completely through innovations in power generation and carbon sequestration, where agriculture has gone to vertical farming and North America has largely been rewilded back to forest and open prairie, and where extinct species are regularly recreated by genetic engineering and reintroduced.

One immediate answer focuses on the resistance of corporations to investing in an energy innovation even if the payback is just two years.

But if we continue the work that we've already begun over the last two years, we won't just spark new jobs, industries and innovations — we will leave your generation and future generations with a country that is safer, that is healthier, and that's more prosperous.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

But in my view it's very necessary, and that's despite the fact that if you take the innovation economy in the U.S., broadly defined, now versus 10 years ago, there's a lot more energy activity....

If the unjustifiable impediments were removed, competition and innovations would take off; technologies would improve faster, safety would improve and costs could be expected to decline at around 10 % per capacity doubling (typical for other electricity generation technologies over the past 100 years or so).

If you consider the total energy supplied to the human system, the biggest energy innovation of the last 20 years is probably the ability to economically recover unconventional petroleum sources like tar sands oil and shale gas.

We won't get there through innovation or new technology, even if we spend a trillion a year for the next few years.

«These announcements have the potential to unleash and accelerate the kinds of entrepreneurship and innovation needed to propel all economies towards ever greater levels of ambition — if not significantly exceeding their ambitions — en route to a low - carbon, resilient world over coming years and decades.»

Granted, we don't expect to see next year's models getting thousands of miles to the gallon, but there are design innovations here that, if adopted by the auto industry, would give companies an enormous competitive edge, and just may put the issue of minimum mpg to rest.

Imagine if the collective free time were used on dreaming and implementing innovations that eliminate our carbon footprint, improve the environment, and change the way we live our lives so that the planet as we know it will be around in another thousand years?

If the talents and resources at our disposal had been devoted to identifying ways to benefit the public through innovation instead of wasting over three and a half years on this ABS nonsense, we would be miles and miles ahead.

This year, CuroLegal founder Chad Burton and law practice innovator Billie Tarascio approached us to see if we could figure out a way to work together to accelerate the pace of innovation around access to justice.

But I think the benchmarking part of it is very useful and I also think that the innovation is probably happening among outliers and I would say that if I'm a firm looking to invest in technology and to go make technology a differentiation with other firms, I think these numbers would actually be very encouraging to say, «Hey, maybe even now even though we haven't done anything for a few years, we could actually make a jump in technology over some of our competitors.»

Some students may prefer the status quo, but if you believe the stories above, or even if you just monitor the increasing use of the Twitter hashtag # 3Lol, an expression synonymous with the ease and redundancy of the third year in law school, the case for innovations like a shorter, two - year, program or removal of the requirement to complete articles become more convincing.

If the relationship between intellectual property laws and innovation had been on the agenda 10 years ago, there would have been a unified call for stronger IP laws.