Sentences with phrase «new policy innovations»

Like in the past, new policy innovations are currently being explored to find new ways to deal with the social pressure resulting from the increasing obsolescence of manual labour, as can be seen in the experimenting with Universal Basic Income in Finland.

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In a statement, Lee said that the «growing «sharing economy» is leveraging technology and innovation to generate new jobs and income for San Franciscans in every neighborhood and at every income level... San Francisco must be at the forefront of nurturing its growth, modernizing our laws, and confronting emerging policy issues and concerns.»

Some of these conservative rebels, they say, have brought not recklessness but rather new energy and policy innovation to a party that has long since lost the will (or courage) to champion fresh ideas.

Other new steps outlined by the administration include an online policy challenge to encourage entrepreneurs to offer new ideas to foster innovation, educational programs and commitments from more than 100 community colleges to promote entrepreneurship.

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«New businesses are disproportionately responsible for the innovation that drives productivity and economic growth, and they account for virtually all net new job creation,» says John Dearie, executive vice president for policy at the Financial Services ForNew businesses are disproportionately responsible for the innovation that drives productivity and economic growth, and they account for virtually all net new job creation,» says John Dearie, executive vice president for policy at the Financial Services Fornew job creation,» says John Dearie, executive vice president for policy at the Financial Services Forum.

August 30, 2016 Reversing Canada's $ 5 billion food processing net trade imbalance: Will Canada's new innovation policy help lead the turnaround?

Yet for us to expect that the results of our current innovation policies and investments will miraculously spur new companies and significant economic growth is, as many people like to say, the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result.

The ongoing US recovery, the new US administration's decision to restart the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline and other energy projects, and further policy measures, including tax reform, deregulation and infrastructure spending, could boost both demand and business confidence, igniting animal spirits and leading to an acceleration in the rates of investment, firm creation and innovation.

Canada's mediocre innovation performance calls for a broader policy approach, according to a new report from the C. D. Howe Institute.

Specific policies include encouraging job creation and innovation in the new energy economy; improving the fairness of employment standards (including re-establishing the National Minimum Wage; reversing «tax giveaways» to corporations; introducing and maintaining balanced budgets; protecting Canadians from «price gouging» by businesses; implementing income stabilization programs for farmers; promoting long - term economic and environmental sustainability of marine and forestry resources; and re-investing in education, skills training and apprenticeships to help Canadians succeed in the economy.

To turn GDP growth around, Yellen recommended that Congress adopts policies that «encourage business investment and capital formation, improve the nation's infrastructure, raise the quality of our educational system, and support innovation and the adoption of new technologies.»

These factors — many of which are beyond our control and the effects of which can be difficult to predict — include: credit, market, liquidity and funding, insurance, operational, regulatory compliance, strategic, reputation, legal and regulatory environment, competitive and systemic risks and other risks discussed in the risk sections of our 2017 Annual Report; including global uncertainty and volatility, elevated Canadian housing prices and household indebtedness, information technology and cyber risk, regulatory change, technological innovation and new entrants, global environmental policy and climate change, changes in consumer behavior, the end of quantitative easing, the business and economic conditions in the geographic regions in which we operate, the effects of changes in government fiscal, monetary and other policies, tax risk and transparency and environmental and social risk.

The 100 women were selected in 10 categories, including board and management, social enterprise and not - for - profit, business enterprise, public policy, innovation, young leader, global, local / regional, diversity, and a new category, arts, sports and culture.

While strengthening existing partnerships, we are building new partnerships with countries such as Brazil and China, which have developed their own agricultural sectors through technological and policy innovation and are increasingly important to agricultural growth in the regions where we work.

CIHT's director of policy and technical affairs Andrew Hugill commented that the highways sector is currently facing a lot of positive change, from increased certainty of funding to new technological innovations.

As federal «dysfunction» forces them to step up regulatory efforts, state and local governments need to develop new policies for the growing tech sectors in order to balance the need for protecting public interests and supporting innovation, AG Eric Schneiderman told a NY Tech Meetup event.

Governments should always be innovating and looking for new ways to tackle problems and improve quality of life, and indeed New York State is not afraid of policy innovation and exploratinew ways to tackle problems and improve quality of life, and indeed New York State is not afraid of policy innovation and exploratiNew York State is not afraid of policy innovation and exploration.

Competitive policy innovation between major cities should start to see them create bold new ideas to deal with seemingly intractable social and economic problems.

«The combination of talent, technological innovation and supportive policies in New York has created a vibrant clean energy industry that is leading the nation in meeting the energy challenges of our future.»

Maxwell, 31, of Syracuse, expects to leave his $ 92,800 - a-year job as SOCPA director within a month to start the new job as Miner's director of policy and innovation.

Another speaker Thursday in Saratoga Springs, Georgetown innovation policy professor Charles Wessner, said that when SUNY Poly picks a new president, it should be someone with ties to the semiconductor industry.

Another fellow, Barbara Martinez, was a 2011 - 2012 executive branch fellow who now works as innovation director at Conservation X Labs, a company founded by two alumni S&T Policy Fellows in order to develop new conservation models and prevent the extinction of species.

Governments need to give technical experts more autonomy and hold their nerve to provide more long - term stability when investing in clean energy, argue researchers in climate change and innovation policy in a new paper published today.

He added, «We will not just meet, but we will exceed the level achieved at the height of the space race, through policies that invest in basic and applied research, create new incentives for private innovation, promote breakthroughs in energy and medicine, and improve education in math and science.»

«Our aim has been to focus attention and stimulate debate about these subjects, potentially leading to new research foci, policy developments, or business innovations,» the authors wrote in introducing their list of top trends to watch in 2017.

Truman Seman, a principal with GreenOrder, a New York - based consulting firm specializing in sustainability, said the «tremendous investment and innovation» happening in the absence of coherent carbon policy is a sliver of the market's potential.

Research minister Șerban Valeca, an engineer appointed by the new social - democratic government in January, has dismissed almost the entire membership of four councils that provide advice on funding policy, research strategy, ethics, and innovation.

She is also examining the challenges that new forms of biotechnology pose for political and public policy organizations, and the regulatory innovations that emerge alongside developments in cutting edge technologies.

With a clear focus on education, innovation, staff development and reporting, the beginning of the new school year is the best time to re-evaluate your school's online safety policies to ensure that both you and your pupils are protected effectively.

With that in mind, the NESB called for a new «NPS / Charter / Faith - based Working Group» that would formalize district - charter communication routines and create a forum for addressing a host of issues, such as developing a «set of shared values and indicators of success» for the entire city and advocating for «innovations in policy and practice.»

Course Access may be a new policy development, but it continues the evolving tradition of educational innovation around the country.

In New Hampshire's example, for those schools that have yet to move to fully competency - based systems, getting unstuck from the organizational structures and processes that guide them appears just as potent a barrier to innovation in some schools as the state's policies are a gateway to innovation.

In keeping with our rapidly growing innovation agenda, the Center must continue to explore new ways of using a variety of media and advanced technologies to catalyze creative thinking across disciplines and sectors, to support the design and testing of more effective interventions, and to disseminate our findings in a way that transforms the policy and practice climate, both in the United States and globally.

We see waivers on a variety of policy issues to accommodate implementation challenges, state - specific statutes or constitutional requirements, or to encourage innovation and new ideas.

Passed in 2008, it invited proposals for creating innovation schools, which could request waivers to district policies, state statutes, and union contracts — including tenure for new teachers — if 60 percent of the teachers voted for the Innovation Plan.

My preexisting bias before the release of the 2017 NAEP was that the Louisiana RSD was a clever policy innovation given the circumstances of post-Katrina New Orleans, but that the concept employed enormous amounts of financial and human capital.

We are inviting all our allies, former adversaries, and new partners to join hands in a commitment to a new equation for education — Innovation + Opportunity = Results, or Ed Reform I.O, dedicated to advancing the foundational concepts of innovation and opportunity in all future policy efforts.

In addition, the superintendent focuses on networking within the communities served, making sure that he has an eye on what might create support for innovation and new policies:

It will indeed be a cause to cheer if and when policy - makers start to turn their sights away from the zero - sum game of whose schools are outperforming on ELA and Math tests and towards the ends that chartered schools were supposed to lead us in the first place: teacher empowerment, innovation, entrepreneurism and new models of teaching and learning to name just a few.

And although states have been the primary drivers of testing policies, this innovation plan would enable districts, consortiums, and school networks — especially those that aspire to use richer and newer forms of assessment — to take the lead.

They recommend «changes to federal, state, and local policy» and a greater degree of «neighborhood partnerships» among charters, public schools, foundations and universities if these schools are to «be a powerful vision for educational innovation in a new century.»

Bringing new or existing models to a broader scale will require not only technological and educational innovation, but also public policy change.

Connecticut's new Teachers Policy Institute (TPI) is a research and innovation forum created by members of the Connecticut Education Association to advance equity and opportunity for all of the students teachers serve every day.

A handful of states have enacted legislation that allows regular public schools outside the charter sector to obtain innovation status, which provides a streamlined way to obtain a multi-year package of policy waivers necessary to implement innovative strategies and new school designs.20

During CTL's recent 20th Anniversary Education Forum and Celebration held at the Muhammad Ali Center in downtown Louisville, table groups of educators and policy makers developed actionable steps to address one of three forum themes — equity, innovation and systems change — with the aim of inventing a new educational future over the next 20 years.

DeMoss, Bank Street's president Shael Polakow - Suransky, and the college's dean of innovation, policy and research Josh Thomases recently wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times in which they make a case for investing in co-teaching residencies as a professional necessity.

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One of the most important policy innovations of the last few years has been the adoption and implementation of new multiple - measure teacher evaluation systems.

Earlier this year, the state Legislature passed a bill to ease the process that McDowell County must follow to become a school innovation zone, which would free selected schools from some state rules and policies, giving them greater flexibility to embrace new ideas and teaching strategies.