Sentences with phrase «of cultural innovation»

Again, our early populations were probably low, and there's evidence the rate of cultural innovation is partly a function of population size.

Taking place at over 80 of New York's most exciting art and cultural venues, Performa 09 was created as a collaboration between all of these moving parts, so a portrait of the city's remarkable history of cultural innovation also emerges from these pages.

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While the head of diversity at Apple shared her view that even a racially homogenous team can be diverse because of their life experiences, embracing cultural diversity and minimizing bias are still the primary goals of most innovation oriented companies.

Cultural melting pots produce inventive meals, believes Sohrab Vossoughi, CEO of Ziba, an innovation consulting firm in Portland, Oregon.

«As regulatory, technological and cultural gaps all work to slow innovation adoption, Viola Fintech accelerates the integration of innovative ideas into financial institutions while providing the necessary resources to fintech companies as they scale to transform the financial sector.»

The GoKart 600 process reinforces fearless exploration and purposeful innovation, two of the company's key cultural traits.

Portland, Ore - based Ken Lahti, vice president of product development and innovation advisory firm CEB, suggests using customized cultural - fit tests during the interview process.

Whether it's smart minds, a welcoming business environment, cultural assets, a legacy of innovation, tech talent or even cost of living — this region has all the ingredients Amazon needs to make HQ2 a success.

Associated with tech - driven innovation, quirky, youthful workplaces and high - impact results, the global proliferation of startups may be a cultural phenomenon in addition to a new economic engine.

In the realms of both cultural development and technical innovation, ignorance and inflexibility are the enemy; Giancarlo stresses that the upcoming generation «see virtual currency — along with social media — as a means to bypass control by a failed generation of leadership.»

The main themes of the questions were innovation, climate - change policy and the cultural sector in Canada.

There is a temptation for members of a cultural elite to see their values as the only respectable virtues, a tendency that blinds the group to both cultural innovation and aesthetic dissent, especially from people deemed marginal to established intellectual society.

The significance of conceptualizing these responses as a distinct set of variables is that cultural innovations are seen as a result of specific actions, not just general phenomena that emerge automatically and mysteriously from structural conditions.

In each case (1965 and 1981) it is evident (and somewhat embarrassing) that my sense of theological dislocation is hardly a matter of my own new insight or innovation, but one of a somewhat panicky, sloppy and inept reaction to external events, to massive and threatening cultural and historical changes that, quite against my will, force on me a different procedure, a different viewpoint, a different set of questions — a different theology.

My rule of thumb for buying a cookbook is that it must contain at least five recipes that I can not live without trying AND it must offer some intangible something — innovation, technique, cultural insight, or even nostalgia — that I can not already easily find on my shelves or on the internet.

As a cultural leader in its territory, we will attempt to bring you the best of the worldwide sushi innovations in the form of recommendations for sushi restaurants, sushi festivals, and pictures of celebrities enjoying their sushi in partial nudity.

Other activities in four municipalities in Mindanao include forum on golden rice and organic agriculture, organic food and products fair, press conference, concert, cultural presentations (reading of poems on organic agriculture composed by farmers), t - shirts printing, dissemination of campaign materials, sharing of farmers» practices and innovations, boodle fight, and opening of organic trading post.

This will happen by adopting a culture of innovation and continuous improvement that works to implement best practices across a full spectrum of sustainability dimensions — social, ecological, economic, cultural and accountability — for the benefit of all of agriculture and the peoples of the world that depend on it.

This could be through culinary innovation, a commitment to social responsibility, sustainability or the economic development of their community; involvement in health or environmental campaigns, the promotion of pioneering cultural projects, or works that benefit society through their positive impact on the food industry.

Wolfgang Puck Catering, brings a new level of innovation and inspiration to special event and contract dining services for cultural, corporate and entertainment venues across the country, offering a restaurant - quality experience in a special event setting for both small and large scale events.

Perhaps, the best answer is that energy independence has never been a simple technical, economic or political solution to the problem of foreign oil dependence; rather, it has been a cultural artifact, a discourse evoking particular American notions of the exceptional nation, American innovation and ingenuity, the can - do spirit, and the very notion of «independence» on which the American national project has been built.

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This represents a period of dramatic innovation in terms of subsistence, cultural and technological practices among the humans of the age.

He adds that the shell beads come from a time when overall cultural innovation among early humans appears to have been speeding up, as evidenced by the short - lived nature of the Still Bay itself, which was soon replaced with other stone and bone tool styles.

«The most distinct of the many cultural innovations in the HP culture were the invention of the bow and arrow, different methods of heating raw materials (stone) before knapping to produce arrow heads, engraving ostrich eggshells with elaborate patterns, intensive use of hearths and relatively intense hunting and gathering practices,» says Professor Christopher Henshilwood, one of the team members from Wits and Bergen Universities.

The flexibility and ability to adapt to changing climates by employing various cultural innovations allowed communities of early humans to survive through a prolonged period of pronounced aridification.

«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.»

The early human techno - tradition, known as Howiesons Poort (HP), associated with Homo sapiens who lived in southern Africa about 66,000 to 59,000 years ago indicates that during this period of pronounced aridification they developed cultural innovations that allowed them to significantly enlarge the range of environments they occupied.

As for the role of population size in spurring our evolution, he and Wang had not given it much thought, but they saw the idea as complementary to their own view, since cultural innovations allowed more people to survive.

In reality, however, rampant problems in research funding — some attributable to the system and others cultural — are slowing down China's potential pace of innovation.

Natural and Cultural Resources Manager Tim Green talks about the history At the same location where soldiers passed through for two world wars and Irving Berlin wrote «God Bless America,» staff at Brookhaven Lab lead and collaborate with some of the world's brightest minds as an asset for innovation and inspiration with seven Nobel Prize - winning discoveries and countless other advances, supporting the U.S. Department of Energy's mission to discover the solutions that power and secure our nation's future.

Having grandparents around in large numbers would have significantly increased population size, thus fostering innovation and self - expression, and it would have facilitated the transfer of valuable knowledge and cultural traditions to the next generation.

«On the product front, Tinder has been on the cutting edge of innovation since its inception in 2012, inventing the swipe gesture, which has since become this cultural phenomenon of «swipe right» and «swipe left» and that is often imitated on mobile products,» she said.

Through our open call for submissions, we hope to engage with filmmakers on the forefront of cinematic innovation and experimentation in both content and form, presenting access - driven stories with journalistic integrity that demand an engagement with our political and cultural environments.

Nothing can match the original Star Wars in terms of filmmaking innovation and cultural impact, and The Empire Strikes Back will forever remain as one of the model examples of how to do a sequel right.

Directors Anthony and Joe Russo cut their teeth on such urbane, snippy TV sitcoms as Arrested Development and Community and the film begins brightly, with some inspired comedy concerning the Cap's growing laundry list of post-WWII must - see cultural artefacts and baffling culinary innovations.

However, if greater economic dynamism, more powerful incentives for creativity, cultural innovation, greater opportunity for material comfort, greater acceptance of diversity, and greater personal liberty are taken as measures of societal well - being, then the United States might be better.

It aims to expand in places that have characteristics hospitable to clusters, such as significant talent density, parents who demand innovation, high concentrations of financial assets to fuel experimentation, and «cultural capital,» an ephemeral influencer effect that can provide a lift in branding micro-schooling as the next big thing.

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Learning sciences: Interdisciplinary field bringing together findings — from research into cognitive, social and cultural psychology; neuroscience and learning environments, among others — with the goal of implementing learning innovations and improving instructional practice.

The forecasts of widespread innovation brought on by competition and of cultural balkanization by privatization will have to accommodate an empirical reality that is considerably more nuanced than vouchers» most ardent advocates and critics are currently willing to admit.

Management of innovations from a cultural - individual perspective.

Skills like collaboration, communication, strategizing, cooperation, empathy, compassion, leadership, cultural literacy, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, critical consumption of information, socially conscious decision - making, critical thinking, adaptability, flexibility, networking, resilience, persistence, and the list goes on.

«It's a large cultural change for a lot of schools, and they'll be asked to do things they've never been asked to do before,» said David Weiner, the district's deputy chancellor for talent, innovation, and development.

Not only does this help unlock the mysteries of early innovation, it provides insight into distinct cultural differences: the ancient Maya, for example, were remarkably advanced, while the British remained firmly rooted in tradition, even into later centuries — a stubbornness that led to the spread of the Black Death.

Although I admire Amazon for its culture of innovation and superb customer service, I do not consider it beneficial either for society (readers) or any of the entities involved in the book industry (publishers, bookstores, libraries, etc.) to allow one company to take on such a leading position in the cultural world and be able to determine its future at its own whim.

The cutting edge innovation of MediaCityUK, the rich sporting history of Old Trafford Football Stadium and the diverse cultural offering of Lowry Theatre are all just a few minutes» walk.

Few destinations can compare to the historical significance, diverse cuisine, and cultural innovation of Boston.

At PlayStation we believe that gamers come first; that developers are the heart and soul of the industry; that innovation, intelligence, and emotion are central to games... which themselves are driving the cultural zeitgeist.

The Tiga document states that games would need to also pass cultural tests to take advantage of tax breaks, scoring against a criteria of European European heritage and game locations, innovation and location of development staff.