Sentences with phrase «successful social innovations»

Successful social innovations have durability and broad impact.»

Not exact matches

It is a hard concept to explain precisely and to quantify, but the idea of differing levels of social capital helps explain why, for example, French entrepreneurs (not to mention Indian, Chinese, Mexican and Nigerian) are more likely to create successful tech startups in the US or the UK than at home, or why it is easier to start a business in Sidney than in Beijing, or why technological innovation is not evenly spread out among countries, even among countries at similar development levels, but rather tends to cluster in a few areas in a few countries where tech entrepreneurs seem to believe that their work is made easier and the rewards greater.

GoverMedia's successful IPO reflects how we're now witnessing a new wave of innovation in social media, involving cryptocurrency and blockchains.

Herbert Spencer's extreme individualism and antistatism, and «social Darwinist» theory of all social «evolution» (identified with «progress»), glorifying the unmoderated competitive struggle among men and groups and societies as «nature's» method of producing progress through innovations, conflicts, and «survival of the fittest,» had a wide vogue among the successful and especially conservative, conservative = liberal businessmen and other people in this period.

Through InnoCentive's online network of 300,000 engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs --- the world's first open innovation marketplace --- we offered prize money in exchange for successful solutions to problems in the social space that confounded experts working in only one place.

Unlike other techniques of climate engineering, DAC has received significant attention from startups since its main issue is deemed to be the directimplementation cost (not side effects or social concerns), which could be significantly reduced with successful innovation.