Sentences with phrase «on early innovation»

Experiences in these case study sites suggest that as they pursue similar changes to teachers» traditional roles, other districts, schools, and charter school leaders can build on early innovations by:

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According to Ed Quattlebaum, founding partner at Polaris - Crux Group, a strategic advisement firm that focuses on helping early - stage innovation companies with capital raising and commercial scaling, one of the most effective strategies to better position you and your startup during negotiation is to acknowledge and address one anxiety that all investors loathe: risk.

While in town earlier this month to deliver a keynote at the Toronto stop on the Salesforce World Tour, Harris spoke with Canadian Business about cloud computing, innovation and what he's learned about leadership since starting the company in 1999.

Asked if he thought Bird made mistakes with its launch, VanderZanden answered carefully: «Our approach is to work with cities very early on in the process, so we reached out, started a dialogue with Santa Monica the week we actually launched... Any time there's new innovation it's never clear exactly where you fit into the permitting and regulatory scheme.»

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

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.

Still, 80 % of analysts have a Buy rating on Valeant, and some argue the company is already funding innovation, just in a different form: «The company is effectively «outsourcing» R&D by acquiring companies with late - stage, early - growth assets instead,» writes Nomura analyst Shibani Malhotra.

Early challenges to contain costs and focus on product innovation can bring about unique solutions from startups, too.

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.

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

«This collaboration will help us identify and support breakthrough innovations in IoT, and look forward to having early access to new technologies with a focus on high quality products and ideas that will develop through this initiative,» he added.

Aspect Venture's shared focus on early stage cybersecurity innovations has been an added source of value to us.»

«Jason not only understands the potential impact of crowdfunding and fintech innovation on alternative finance markets but been a huge supporter of NCFA since the early days.

Amit Shah focuses on early - stage investments, creating globally renowned businesses, where technology innovation and markets intersect.

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.

However, NACO would like to ensure that the government is aware of the impact these policies may have on the early - stage ecosystem so that the government's tax and innovation policies are aligned to support the growth of Canadian startups and their continued access to risk capital.

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.

In addition, Kerry advises clients on innovation & strategy, leveraging over 20 years» experience launching and growing startups and new lines of business, An active start - up coach, Kerry is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship, innovation, and early - stage investing and serves as judge at startup competitions nationwide.

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.

Many in Israel, perhaps most, looked on the innovation favorably, as reflected in the «A» or earlier source; but we do not doubt that even at the time the step was regarded with disapproval among conservative Yahweh loyalists.

In early February, our team of editors and trend researchers whittled down the nominees to three finalists in each category based on the NEXTY criteria centered around innovation, inspiration and integrity.

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

Malibu ® announces a long - term partnership with chart - topping R&B singer and songwriter, film and television actor, Ne - Yo, to unveil Malibu ® Red, a groundbreaking new product innovation to appear on shelves in early 2012.

I suspect that we will see a lot of innovation on the business models in the next five years — Google might be the best early example of how these kinds of companies could look to transform and diversify.

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.

Certainly infants sleeping separated from their caregivers at night (solitary room sleeping), infants sleeping on their stomachs (prone) to promote uninterrupted, early consolidation of adult - like sleep, and bottle - feeding with formula or cows milk rather than breast milk were all novel, culturally - sanctioned but scientifically - untested (as safe or best) infant care innovations.1 It is now known that each of these practices has contributed to or led to thousands of SIDS deaths.3 - 5 Many of these infant lives, we can infer, could have been saved had we more carefully examined and come to understand the biological validity of mother - infant safe co-sleeping, breastfeeding and infants sleeping on their backs (supine).

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.

Earlier in his remarks, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Mr Obafela Bank - Olemoh said part of the innovation of the present administration was the introduction of «library initiative» whereby private organisations can adopt a library and improve it.

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.

«Starting in early 2016, the Library will offer a variety of free all - ages programs highlighting the many scientists, inventions and innovations going on across Western New York today through emerging initiatives at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the University at Buffalo, and private industry,» stated Library Director Jakubowski.

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.

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).

He hopes the research will cast more light on the innovation and development of glass in early sub-Saharan Africa and how the regional dynamics in glass production connect with the global phenomenon of glass invention and exchange.

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.

AAAS Launches Election 2012 Site With the U.S. presidential campaign still in its early stages, the AAAS Office of Government Relations has developed a Web site that describes and tracks the candidates» positions on science, technology, and innovation issues: Science and Technology in the 2012 Presidential Election.

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

So began Wigmore's faith in the healing powers of wheatgrass, a belief that made her a pioneer of the raw foods movement and inspired thousands to forgo one of man's earliest innovations and feast exclusively on raw sprouted grains, raw nuts and crunchy carrot sticks.

A new kind of genetically engineered mouse and an innovation in how to monitor those mice during research have shed new light on the early development of an inherited form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

By early 2000s, when the concept of university - led innovation centres took off, the «translational research infrastructure» on a national level was still lacking.

So when Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston)-- a French - accented nobleman who's already enjoying the innovations of the early Bronze Age — rides in on a mammoth with metal weapons and claims the land, what can the more primitive group do but flee?

On the one hand, [modular narrative films] hark back to much earlier innovations of modernist literature and cinema.

In the latest episode of Observations on Film Art, Professor Kirstin Thompson explores the sonic innovations that Fritz Lang pioneered in a masterpiece of early sound cinema.

In 2013, when one could just start to glimpse that some reforms might be going south, I mused, «Reformers have greeted with a surprising lack of interest the seemingly self - evident fact that the fruits of policy innovation depend as much on how policies are carried out as on whether they're carried out... Earlier reform efforts failed when their champions got mired in changing «professional practice» while ignoring policy.

Apart from IT, the concept of online tutoring is present in other industries as well, but it has much more significance in IT because of the reason I discussed earlier; keeping up - to - date on the latest innovations is given extremely high importance.

The goal of the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust's (EFCT's) partnership with the Center on the Developing Child's Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) is to support the translation of emotional connection and other key innovations in parenting and early childhood among stakeholders in research, program delivery, policy, and philanthropy.

The current wave of innovation in charter schools differs from earlier reforms by focusing on governance, with charter schools freeing educators from oversight by elec ted school boards.

It was thought early on that public charter schools would serve as «laboratories of education,» where independence, flexibility, and innovation would produce high - quality learning environments that could be replicated across the country.