Sentences with phrase «policy drives innovation»

«My goal is to ensure science policy drives innovation and thereby the American economy.

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The 2016 Global Innovation Index, which is an annual ranking of the innovation capabilities and performance of economies around the world, focuses on national policies, but it's individual leaders who can make a difference by driving innovation within organizations and creating a conducive environment for innovation to thrive.

«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 Forum.

Canadian startups can grow by pivoting towards Asia, and policies looking to drive innovation in the Canadian ecosystem should take advantage of this opportunity.

This mix of public policies (incentives, infrastructure and investment) must be ambitious, to drive clean innovation — which is the key to generating climate solutions and securing Canadian competitiveness and jobs in a low - carbon world.

However, other factors played a role, including reactions to the non-transparent, lobby - driven trade negotiation process to develop policy for behind - the - border governance issues, the flawed investor - state dispute mechanism, and the controversial intellectual property and cross-border data flow provisions, which promised to raise health - care costs, dampen innovation, and raise privacy concerns.

«Ill - considered policies driven by these sorts of misguided propaganda campaigns, those are certainly complicating and in some cases slowing the progress of biotech innovations,» Giddings said.

Now in its 6th consecutive year, Scientific American Worldview: A Global Biotechnology Perspective, has become an international «industry standard,» linking the frontiers of life science innovation and drug discovery with the policies and programs driving them forward.

Promoting the power and consequence of science «is more important than ever right now,» particularly as critics question the role of evidence - based science in policymaking and as Congress considers significant proposed cuts to federal funding for scientific research that drives innovation, said Tobin Smith, vice president of policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.&policy at the Association of American Universities, during the March 27 S&T Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.&Policy Forum session «Advocating for Science: More Than a One - Day Activity.»

«The massive transformations underway in the U.S. electricity sector will likely continue, but they won't be driven by federal climate policy,» depending instead on state policy and technical innovation, he said.

Rather than declaring victory, some in the early childhood community have responded to this growing consensus with an increased focus on using innovation to drive more effective policies and programs.

The Center on the Developing Child works to achieve breakthrough outcomes for children around the world in partnership with organizations committed to using the science to inform policy and practice and to drive innovation.

She has successfully directed efforts and forged partnerships to professionalize the field of teaching, raise educator quality, and work with legislators to implement policies that advance research - driven innovations and equity for all students.

Third, we must adopt policies that enable deregulation and innovation in the schools and move away from the top down, compliance and input driven system to one that is output and performance based.

Raise Your Hand Texas advances research - driven innovation in education policy and practice at the campus, district, and state levels.

Forum Brief: Employer - Driven Innovations in CTE: Promise, Practice, & Opportunities for Policy According to projections, in order to stay economically viable, our country will need to dramatically increase the working - age population that earns a high - quality postsecondary credential (degree, certificate, etc.) to meet future workforce needs.

Policy drives technological innovation by creating needs for new entrants to demonstrate feasibility and for existing options to demonstrate cost reductions.

[ANDY REVKIN disagrees: Sorry, policy (a better word would be leadership, perhaps) still drives most game - changing innovation and large - scale investment, particularly in the arena of the «public good» (New York City's reservoir and aquifer system, the climate system, the grid).

Andy, it sounds as if you're in favor of policy - driven innovation instead of innovation - driven policy.

The pace of industrial innovation is driven both to the pull of markets and the prod of government policies and public pressure.

Second, federal energy innovation policy should be structured to drive down the price of clean energy technologies as quickly as possible, which this report doesn't address.

Policies driving technological innovation — in what critics have dubbed the «war on coal» — are helping the United States transition its energy system to one that is cleaner and more efficient.

• Participants represent industry change makers who will drive the innovation, policy and practice necessary to bring zero net energy buildings to scale.

Bruce Burcat, Executive Director of the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Coalition, told me, «Sound policies like the PTC have driven innovation which has helped reduce the cost of wind energy down by about 66 percent over the past six years, making it highly price competitive with traditional forms of energy resources.

As ambitious climate policy develops, we support business in interpreting its implications and driving the benefits of innovation, competitiveness, risk management and growth.

Market - shifts, technological innovation, and cleanenergy policies are driving a fundamental transformation of the U.S. power sector.

The two policies complement one another by driving investment and innovation in vehicles, fuels, and infrastructure — and both policies are crucial for achieving California's climate goals.

2016 saw decision makers continue to implement policies during the year to attract investment, drive deployment, foster innovation and encourage greater flexibility in infrastructure.»

clean energy innovation improving consumer choice and affordability more efficient use of energy deeper penetration of renewable energy resources wider deployment of «distributed» energy resources micro grids roof - top solar on - site power supplies and storage promote markets advanced energy management enhance demand elasticity and efficiencies empower customers more choice 50 % of its electricity from renewable resources by 2030 business as usual bad public policy clean energy's economic and environmental potential the power industry was headed for trouble rising utility bills growing customer dissatisfaction socially unjust clean energy economy haves - and - have - nots change in culture business model for the whole system moves the electric industry away from a monopoly, top - down and incentive driven system governed by the market emphasizes distributed energy a distributed system platform market exchange microgrids solar energy efficiency distributed energy resources compete to serve the grid pro-consumer pro-innovation markets - based more affordable resilient capital efficiencies encouraging more distributed energy demand response energy efficiency

Each step of the way, proactive public policy has played a crucial role in driving American innovations, from railroads and jet engines to microchips, biotechnology, and the Internet, unleashing long waves of economic growth and shared prosperity.

With the US clean energy policy system set to be effectively wiped clean in the coming years, American business and policymakers must now unite to craft a coordinated new set of limited but direct federal strategies optimized to drive innovation, advanced manufacturing, and competitiveness.

One of the most remarkable achievements was India adopting a National IPR Policy to drive innovation culture to create valuable IP assets and provide robust IP administrative and enforcement systems.

Certainly one of your jobs is to remind people about policies and security if that comes up, but policies and security are not the automatic «no» to innovation that is driven by Your clients — the lawyers and staff you work with.

From enabling unprecedented transparency, to active progress in open government and open machine readable data, innovation funds that scale what works, new types of public - private partnerships, and precision medicine, the Obama administration has made great strides to expand and prioritize innovation - driven policy.

This report synthesizes 15 years of dramatic advances in the science of early childhood and early brain development, analyzes evidence generated by 50 years of program evaluation research, and presents a framework for driving science - based innovation in early childhood policy and practice.