Sentences with phrase «run by innovation»

Run by innovation foundation Nesta, supported by technology company IBM, schools will compete for a cash prize plus expert mentoring from IBM.

The prize is developed and run by the innovation foundation NESTA, with funding from the Technology Strategy Board

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Overall, the scorecard highlighted several overarching trends: globally, women don't get access to an equal share of resources; men still dominate in key leadership positions; and growth capital and innovation ecosystems primarily focus on businesses run by men.

We have to live by the values that we have, of running these innovation experiments, and if they fail, it's all part of it.

Whether by private firms or by government, capital investment generates multiple and cascading economic benefits: spending power and job - creation in the short - run, productivity and innovation in the long - run.

Suggesting that we can build an endless wall along our borders, and blame our challenges on immigrants — that doesn't just run counter to our history as the world's melting pot; it contradicts the evidence that our growth and our innovation and our dynamism has always been spurred by our ability to attract strivers from every corner of the globe.

It was run, actually, by a former Apple employee named Ann - mae Chun, and she, within that lab, had the operational innovation team that was the team design to get to «yes.»

Mr. Russell said higher taxes on dividends or capital gains would run counter to the government's pledge of boosting innovation by attracting foreign capital and talent.

From the wing T to the run - and - shoot, college offenses are cyclical, each innovation met by a corresponding adjustment in defensive strategy.

The second publication of the government's progress reports - an innovation devised by David Cameron to make government more efficient and transport - shows its business, environment and «big society» projects to be running months behind schedule only six months after their timetables were originally published... The Cabinet Office was the department whose agenda had slipped the most with 17 rearranged targets.

For scientists at all levels the research councils run a BioScience Business Plan Competition to increase awareness and «help the formation of new business ventures» by providing training, mentoring, and advice on knowledge transfer, innovation, and business issues.

By focusing its R&D money on the one area that truly demands innovation, B612 aims to run Sentinel much more cheaply than NASA could, about $ 450 million in all.

But I come to bury «Autómata,» not to praise it; every innovation or nicely - finessed moment of work is outweighed by a lumbering, slumbering, overlong running time that's the bulky, rattling container for every single cliché the topic's already given us, and then some.

Run by the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA)-- the Australian Computer Society has also been involved — the program has evolved over the past 25 years as a way of celebrating achievement within the IT industry and encouraging innovation.

By focusing our innovation energy on instruction first and technology second, investments in edtech are more likely to pay off in the long run.

But few have gone as far as Indianapolis, where the district is now authorizing what it calls innovation network schools: districts schools that are run by outside contractors, with their own independent boards and full charter - style autonomy.

CEEAS is run by David Domenici, best known for the innovations he implemented as founding principal of the Maya Angelou Academy, which serves delinquent juveniles from Washington, D.C.

Our founders and leaders have been instrumental in innovations such as open enrollment and public school choice, the nation's first charter school law, and schools designed and run by teachers.

The report concludes that schools should remain public institutions, situated at the heart of local communities and run in the public interest, with innovation and reform driven by the not - for - profit and public sectors.

In Massachusetts, innovation zones have been pushed heavily by a Boston nonprofit, Empower Schools, run by Chris Gabrieli.

(Repeats story which ran earlier on Thursday without changes to text) By Nathan Layne and Thomas Wilson WASHINGTON / TOKYO, April 30 (Reuters)- In the 1980s when Sony and Toshiba were setting the agenda in the global TV and memory chip markets Japan was bristling with confidence as a hub of technological innovation.

Infinitrak, the US - based joint venture company owned by transmission innovation specialist Torotrak and outdoor power equipment (OPE) market leader MTD (earlier post), has developed a new epicyclic drive that replaces gears with traction spheres running in prescribed tracks, combining the functionality of a thrust bearing and an epicyclic drive stage.

In the Matrix LED headlights, the indicator featuring a dynamized display — another brand innovation — runs in the direction selected by the driver.

AMP Research supplied and installed power running boards, bed steps and a tailgate extender to make it easy to get in and enjoy the Katzkin Leather interior and Clarion sound system installed by Audio Innovations.

One might compare this innovation to the page layout that Daniel Bomberg adopted in 1523 for Talmud editions — a running source text at the center surrounded by an array of commentaries.»

Mr. Russell said higher taxes on dividends or capital gains would run counter to the government's pledge of boosting innovation by attracting foreign capital and talent.

Launched on September 9, 1999, the SEGA Dreamcast was ahead of its time — critically acclaimed and still loved by fans, the system featured such innovations as being the first console to have online gaming, and even had the capability to run a web browser.

Curated by Melissa Rachleff, this exhibition presents the first comprehensive look at midcentury artistic innovations from the perspective of artist - run spaces.

Inflected with an edge of Old West danger by its title, Bear Running from the Shotgun combines radical innovation and overwhelming beauty, baring the soul of a city for all to see.

Pollock, who began as a traditional painter, was exposed to exciting technical innovations when, at age 24, he joined an experimental workshop run by the iconoclastic Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros.

Solving this problem is not really going to require international agreements so much as it'll be driven by the private sector and civil society in co-evolution, sped by military innovation — in other words spread by effective institutions and end - running the ineffective ones....

In the long run I don't think we will succeed in getting transportation of oil by trying to stop oil production on a site - by - site basis, we are going to have to put a high price on transportation fuels that have high carbon emissions and get much more serious about driving energy innovation they can get the transportation system off carbon.

As the «Six Americas» surveys run by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication have shown, there's plenty of common ground on energy innovation and incentives for efficiency, so it's possible to have a constructive conversation on global warming science and at least some solutions across a range of ideologies.

The other solar company run by Bill Gross (ly offensive) is Energy Innovations with its sill SunFlower.

In its place, the work of innovation to decrease energy consumption is taken up by researchers and startups with many promising solutions like biofuel paved future roads that are cheaper than petroleum, sustainable and environmental friendly, or the creation of high speed system of transportation that runs on air and electricity, made by a company called HyperLoop.

Rather than go in this direction, however, Gillespie argues that «A better route to reducing carbon emissions runs through technological innovations that are adopted uniformly by all industries in all countries,» and that «A carbon tax that raises the cost of traditional fuels does not get us there.»

Funny I once picked up a book in the eighties how IBM invented Virtual memory in the 1960s, that was completel IBM invent virtual memory when the Burroughs patin ran out in the 1960 Burroughs computer had been using virtual memory since the fifties, after all they computer scientist really did figure out you could swap memory out to some other storage medium, at the time I not certain it was even disk and since most machines at that time used core memory it was not remn RAM they were saving, but the process of using virtual memory indeed invented by Burroughs, in reality most computer innovation were done by someone else IBM took them after the patient ran out and used them as their own innovation and the blue short press gave them the credit.

This week on the legal - affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look at the Peer - to - Patent system, an innovative pilot project run jointly by the USPTO and the Center for Patent Innovations, a research and development arm of New York Law School's Institute for Information Law and Policy.

With the integrated, three - position Kickstand, the ability to run desktop software and touch apps side - by - side, and a full - size USB 3.0 port, Surface 3 is a balanced mix of innovation and practicality.

Like upgrade technologies, farms are a mid-game innovation, and by time they start running out of food, you are going to have more important things to worry about than right - clicking on farms a bunch of times.

Adding even more credibility to the Hyperledger Blockchain run by the Linux Foundation — the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source has elected Jeff Garzik, CEO and co — founder of Bloq, as their representative to The Linux Foundation Board of Directors.