Sentences with phrase «for early innovation»

Yet this freedom to test and experiment with new designs was critical for early innovation, since no one had yet proven how to design a great tablet.

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After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.

Reuters reported earlier this month that the Justice Department believed the merger would raise costs for rival entertainment distributors and stifle innovation and could allow AT&T to withhold key content from HBO, CNN or other of its channels from competitors.

Tesla Motors said on Sunday it was updating the Autopilot driving systems in Model S sedans to put new limits on its hands - free operation, which has been both praised for its innovation while criticized for having been launched too early.

The commitment to endeavor to eliminate the deficit a year earlier is a good thing, and so is the continuing pattern of developing economy opportunities, whether it's on innovation or measures for small business to create employment.

«We're looking everywhere for early - stage, technology - based products and services that can help us know more about our patients and engage with them,» says Molly Coye, chief innovation officer at UCLA Health, a $ 2.4 billion organization that operates several hospitals in California.

The prototype for a digital ledger - based clearing system is in the process of being built, and testing could begin as early as the second quarter, said John Lee, TMX's managing director of enterprise innovation product development.

Ask Scott D. Anthony, author of The First Mile: A Launch Manual for Getting Great Ideas Into the Market, and he'll tell you that the heady early days — when an innovation moves from idea to market — are the toughest time for any startup.

Successful startups that achieve exponential growth early on are the ones that focus on innovation and providing unique, valuable solutions for consumers.

It is my view that crowdfunding will be introduced in most provincial jurisdictions in Canada later this year or early next year as both regulators and government would like to ensure the environment for capital formation for seed and early stage innovation is robust and the introduction of crowdfunding will have low budgetary impact for provincial governments.

[1] In the words of program founder Roland Tibbetts: «to provide funding for some of the best early - stage innovation ideas — ideas that, however promising, are still too high risk for private investors, including venture capital firms.»

Beyond lessening the agency's financial burden in the early stages of R&D, NASA's contracts also provide increased incentive for competition between private ventures — competition which will inevitably hasten innovation and shorten product / service lifecycles.

DETROIT (Reuters)- Tesla Motors said on Sunday it was updating the Autopilot driving systems in Model S sedans to put new limits on its hands - free operation, which has been both praised for its innovation while criticized for having been launched too early.

On any given day, Canada's leading researchers unravel the mysteries of biology in state - of - the - art labs throughout the Toronto Medical Discovery Tower and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; early - stage science and technology companies put business plans into action in the MaRS Incubator; organizations across the innovation spectrum grow their businesses in the Heritage Building — the original brick façade of the old Toronto General Hospital.

Given our strong track record, we are excited by the opportunity to help early - stage technology companies, shape the local innovation ecosystem, and drive excellent returns for our investors,» said General Partner Brad Johns, Yaletown Partners.

Whitehead's distinction between genetic and coordinate analysis rests on the conceptual innovation that becoming is from nothing but past finished data to the whole finished occasion with its temporal stretch, constituting the occasion's earlier and later temporal phases in the outcome, not as a frame for the becoming itself.

I was in Orlando earlier in the month for Fresh Summit 2016, a massive trade show that brings together produce industry peeps from around the world to showcase innovation, provide inspiration and track trends.

«Given these unexpected outcomes related to our early ambitions, standards bodies are looking for innovations to overcome the shortcomings of past approaches.

Our 2018 Pitch - Slam competition focuses on early - stage innovation and mission - forward companies promoting business as a force for good.

Packaging Europe is the leading intelligence resource for European packaging professionals, connecting early adopters, technologists and buyers across the industry with the latest trends and innovations in materials, machinery and manufacturing processes.

Electric breast pumps have existed since the early 1980s, but they are still a relatively new frontier for technological innovation.

Americans in the early twentieth century were still becoming acquainted with mass advertising, which was designed to create new needs where none had existed before, such as for mouthwash or deodorant, or to promote products, such as baby food, that responded to and enabled a more fast - paced life brought on by technological innovation.67 With the mass production and advertising of goods, memorable packaging and branding became an essential part of the product, «an integral part of the commodity itself,» as one business executive noted in 1913.68

The enthusiasm and momentum behind the recent efforts to strengthen the programs and services for early childhood education inspired us to bring together the voices presented in this issue to share the most recent innovations and milestones that have brought a focus on child development to the foreground.

Diaper bags are the greatest innovation for every twin mom or dad who wants a stress - free outing rid of little tantrums and excuses for leaving early.

The company has applied its expertise in RFID (radio frequency identification) technology to map and locate underground utilities; it has used its understanding of the healthcare industry to develop innovations that help the early diagnosis of heart and lung conditions; and its range of pocket projectors are the ultimate presentation devices for business people on the go.

Having just reported (see my earlier post) that David Lammy is going to remain as higher education minister, I thought I had better check where he is going to work, since his old department, the department for innovation, universities and skills, has been abolished.

Research Paper Award The Research Paper Premier Award was presented to Graeme D. Larsen from University of Reading for his Paper on «Understanding the early stages of the innovation diffusion process: awareness, influence and communication networks» The judges commented, «An inspirational research paper that enables practitioners to rethink and understand the process of innovation.

The innovation team has tackled several projects, including an early detection system of sensors for water pipe leaks and truck - mounted sensors to map road quality.

In an e-mail to Science Careers, Carmen Vela Olmo, the secretary of state for investigation, development, and innovation, tried to reassure early - career scientists.

The major innovation, the authors say, is to combine the network analysis with the subtle statistical analyses of the early warning signals for the monsoon onset and withdrawal.

And so does setting ambitious goals: Early on, I doubted industry could meet some of the aggressive targets that EPA set for reducing air pollution, but I ultimately saw these goals spur innovation and creative solutions that led to setting even higher standards.

Lim's team sits in the NUS Mechanobiology Institute and the faculty of engineering, and as he consults with biologists and clinicians as dictated by the nature of his various projects, he stresses the need for engineers and physical scientists to partner with medical doctors early and regularly in the innovation process.

But be careful about demands for scale early in the process of technological innovation.

John Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital and a Harvard Medical School professor, said during his presentation that his researchers have been collecting patient - generated information from alternative data sources and converting it into an early warning system for disease.

Spending on innovation among the richest nations took a nosedive early last year and began a slow recovery in 2009 — shown in sharp relief by data in a report issued today by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

What's in store for astronomy, and projects in other fields, is likely to be contained in the Government's science and innovation statement which is due early next month.

«Local media is the bedrock of internet surveillance — the kind of work that we do in terms of scouring the web looking for early signs of something taking place in a community,» explained Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children's and a pioneer in the field of using sources other than public health data to do this type of work.

Williams contends that these innovations took hold at least 125 million years ago and made it possible for early angiosperms to evolve more flexible and sheltered modes of fertilization, including ovaries containing egg cells deep inside the plant.

An early African Union proposal said that it would be the «African equivalent of the OECD's [Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development's] Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry» and that «an important role for the Observatory would be to manage the collection of statistics on science, technology and innovation from African countries.»

• Earlier this week on Science Careers, Elisabeth Pain reviewed the key components of Horizon 2020, Europe's new framework for funding science and innovation, for early - career scientists.

Thanks to the new innovations, the time required for programming a robot can now be counted in minutes at best, when earlier, using traditional programming methods, it could take an hour or more.

«Cultural flexibility was key for early humans to survive extreme dry periods in southern Africa: The ability to be flexible through the innovation of technology helped early humans to survive prolonged periods of pronounced aridification.»

But the past decade or two of research, which is marked by the discovery of thousands of specimens of early birds and flying dinosaurs, also shows that feathers were an early evolutionary innovation — even if they probably arose for reasons unrelated to powered flight, such as insulation or sexual display.

Bethan Hughes, from Wellcome's Innovation team said: «This innovation has the potential to transform lives for those who suffer loss of sight through glaucoma, and offers hope of a breakthrough in early diagnosis of other neurodegenerative diseases.

The innovations will focus on earlier scientific independence for promising young researchers.

The Institute: brings together a wide range of scientists, including physicists, engineers, chemists, biologists as well as HMS clinicians to address fundamental questions about the behavior and functioning of biological systems; allows biologists, engineers, and clinicians to potentially use such knowledge to foster applications and new technologies; and provides a way for the tool - developers (physicists, engineers, computer scientists) to work with the tool - users (biologists, chemists, clinicians) in the early stages of scientific inquiry and encourage scientific collaboration at the innovation stage of tool development.

These fellowships aim to develop, retain, attract and sustain research and innovation talent in the UK and will provide support for up to 7 years for early career researchers working in any subject area — including all areas of STFC science.

With more than 1,200 international actors from 35 + countries, such as big pharma, emerging and small biotech, diagnostics companies, pre-seed / seed / Series A investors, as well as professionals from tech transfer, academia and research institutions, BioFIT is the leading partnering event in Europe for technology transfer, academia - industry collaborations and early - stage innovations in the field of Life Sciences.

Using our Proprietary Business and Technology Development Model, we harness the power of early stage Nanotechnology innovations and position them for market entry to make positive environmental and economic impacts.

Hugo is a story which exalts the magic and innovation of early cinema, and calls for the recognition of its pioneers.