Sentences with phrase «which focused on innovations»

A research project called CenBio, which focused on innovations in bioenergy, carried out the study, which was supported by NTNU in cooperation with SINTEF Energy, the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).

A research project called CenBio, which focused on innovations in bioenergy, carried out the study, which was supported by NTNU in cooperation with SINTEF Energy, the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).

In 2012, Simon Denny attended Munich's Digital Life Design (DLD) conference which focuses on innovations in art, tech, and culture; soon afterwards, he transformed the conference experience — including Tweets, pull - quotes, and graphic design — into 89 canvases, held up by a railing system.

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Later, having left the military and learned the pain of development, sourcing and marketing a self - started product, Williams started Elite innovations, which focuses on engineering, prototyping and consulting, with a focus on assisting veteran - inventors.

In 2005, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, professors of strategy at Insead, published the bestselling Blue Ocean Strategy, which posed a simple but breakthrough premise: Companies should stop trying to beat the competition and instead focus on finding «blue oceans» — new markets or innovations devoid of competition that will create new demand.

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.

A lot of startups and innovation are focused on cheaper, whether it is on the retail side like Aldi and the upcoming entry of Lidl or Dollar Shave Club, which was acquired by Unilever for $ 1 billion.

A culture of advancement also encourages team members to work harder, which boosts productivity, fosters innovation, cultivates loyalty and keeps employees focused on business goals.

There's a bit more moving money around, focusing on innovation, which is clearly in the interest of business, but our view here is that innovation must be lead by business not by government.

The Obama administration's Manufacturing Innovation Institutes — which focus on developing manufacturing technologies through public - private partnerships — are an important first step toward filling this innovation gap.

«Bringing this differentiator to the LCBO on this historic project to consumers of legal age across Ontario, is a great example of a made - in - Canada innovation, which we are proud to be a part of,» said Loren Padelford, vice-president of Shopify Plus, the division that focuses on big clients.

It feels like we are changing the world, which means we are focused on success, ideas and innovation every minute of every day.

On the contrary, focus, expertise and innovation will create exactly what you were striving for, which is a fulfilling brand experience, highly loyal customers and a future driven by your own thoughtful innovation.

However, unlike the present «pilot» program which invites all companies with any new pre-commercial product to apply for its innovation to be trialled within government, the CICP should catalyze Canadian competitiveness through «smart assistance» by focusing on addressing the identified future needs of government agencies and departments through closer collaboration with federal agencies and industry associations.

Khosla's Bitcoin portfolio includes 21 Inc, a developer of Bitcoin mining chips which has amassed more than $ 120 million in startup capital to date, Blockstream, a company focused on innovation in sidechains to improve blockchains, Chain, the leading blockchain platform for enterprises and BlockScore, an identity verification and anti-fraud solution for online transactions.

Round13 Capital Co-Founder Bruce Croxon took the time to talk with SmallCapPower at the recent Cantech Investment Conference in Toronto, asserting that this could be a turning point in which the IT revolution transforms Canada from a resource - based economy to one focused on innovation.

I've worked in and am interested in both consumer and enterprise companies, but I'm focusing right now on health tech, which spans everything from consumer health and wellness / CPG to deep tech innovations in R&D, diagnostics, and therapeutics.

Additionally, except as noted below in certain circumstances, we do not provide cash or equity incentives tied to performance criteria, which could cause employees to focus solely on short - term returns at the expense of long - term growth and innovation.

In her article about alternatives to small business loans for women, small business expert Susan Solovic details several grants available for women - owned businesses, including the SBA's InnovateHER program, which awards a $ 70,000 grant to a recipient whose business is focused on innovation.

The survey questions featured a heavy focus on innovation, which is expected to be a central theme of Finance Minister Bill Morneau's 2017 budget.

We believe plan sponsors need a de-risking strategy that evolves over time, which is why we have a focus on innovation and evolution, and try to anticipate change.

Need to know Where Halls 9 & 10 NEC, Birmingham When 28 February — 1 March, 2018 Opening times Wednesday 28 February, 10 am to 5 pm, Thursday 1 March, 10 am to 5 pm More information easyfairs.com/packaging-innovations Added extras Packaging Innovations will run alongside two co-hosted shows: Empack, which will showcase the latest developments in packaging machinery, and Label & Print, focusing on printing, labelling and converting.

Official sponsors, Polsinelli, an AM Law 100 firm focusing on food and beverage, food - and ag - tech, and health care, The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. and its Cultivate Ventures platform, which focuses on investing in and refreshing healthy lifestyle brands and Agropur, Canada «sleading dairy cooperative with its open innovation platform, Inno Challenge.

A) There's a strong focus on education, innovation and partnership which will be felt across the show floor and most strongly at both the Med - Tech Innovation Conference and on the HealthTech Stage.

The dairy cooperative, which processed nearly 6.1 bn liters of milk in 2017, credits its annual growth to its multiple facility investments, focus on dairy innovation, and acquisition of ice cream manufacturer Scotsburn.

Focusing on The Future of Food, the Convention will bring together the latest and cutting - edge in science, technology and innovation, which will drive our food industry for the next 50 years.

Two years ago most banks trumpeted their innovation, and their public affairs campaigns focused on the extent to which London was seen as an overregulated market compared to some others.

Brian McMahon, executive director of the New York State Economic Development Council, said the plan «implements an economic development program that encourages regional empowerment and focuses resources on growing New York's innovation economy and helping existing businesses expand,» adding, «This is a solid foundation on which to begin an economic renaissance in communities throughout the state.»

With translational research high on the agenda, Thomas is also overseeing the conception and construction of the new # 40.5 million (US$ 53.6 million) Innovation and Enterprise Campus at Aberystwyth, which will focus on agricultural innovation.

Since the beginning of the Eleventh Five - Year Plan, the school has adhered to major strategic demands of national defense, constantly condensing the direction of the frontier research, focusing on improving the capability of independent innovation, undertaking major national science and technology research and a large number of research projects such as the National Defense Program 973 (which is called the National Basic Research Program of March 1997), Program 863 (which is known as the High - tech Research Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerial awards.

Outreach to policymakers and journalists is part of the association's ongoing Transformation Initiative, which calls on AAAS to ramp up advocacy around science - society issues, while also becoming more member - facing and focused on digital - first technologies, as well as innovation.

«We of course focus on innovation and the development of new products, and therefore we focus very much on people,» says Mario Watzke, head of human resources marketing and employer branding at Roche (excluding Genentech), which moved up to # 8 on the list this year from # 15, making the top 10 list for the first time.

The current issue of Technology and Innovation, Journal of the National Academy of Inventors ® (19.1)(full text) zeroes in on the critical topics of innovation and entrepreneurship, with a special focus on what universities are currently doing to foster growth in those areas both for their success and the success of the communities and regions to which they are connected.

Between 2005 and 2011 GenoMEL was funded under the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) to the tune of $ 10.45 million, however in recent years GenoMEL has continued to evolve, giving rise to BioGenoMEL (a daughter consortium focusing on understanding the genetics of survival from melanoma) and most recently the MELGEN consortium which itself is funded by a $ 4.8 million grant through the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 641458.

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is part of EU's Horizon 2020 which focuses on entrepreneurship and innovation in different areas.

* As a final note, I acknowledge that a lot of the individual product recommendations I make here come from niche brands that focus on sophisticated ingredients, cosmetic innovation, and elegant packaging, which also means that they can be prohibitively expensive.

In 2013, Ahrendts left her role as chief executive of British luxury brand Burberry, which she helped to transform from a stale trenchcoat brand into a global fashion force by restructuring the business and focusing on digital innovation.

That's why I'm encouraged by innovations in online dating such as Coffee Meets Bagel (where you get paired with one person a day only), HowAboutWe (which focuses on the experience of going on dates, as opposed to «finding your life partner» — reminds me of WBW's «laying brick» anti-procrastination paradigm), and Siren (Seattle - based app that's been dubbed «anti-Tinder,» because women get to control their visibility to men — and men know that if a woman makes herself visible to him, that's a sign of interest).

Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century This Web site focuses on the contributions of 20th - century engineering ingenuity and innovation that helped shape the world in which we live.

That releases teachers to focus more of their time on things such as creativity and innovation, which the NETS talk about.

As we were writing Disrupting Class, which focused largely on how to help the U.S. transform its education system into a student - centered one by harnessing the power of disruptive innovation, it was clear that, in certain respects, the theories of disruptive innovation would be most powerful in helping the developing world.

Maro: «I think that's the point: Harnessing the exclusivity on the disabled collectivity, which is where we have to focus, also give out all the adjustments to the instruments, all the innovations that we are introducing both for batucada and for social intervention.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

The support base which will result in an increased focus on opportunity, innovation and content knowledge.

Instead, as Innosight Institute's case studies over the past two years reveal, the majority of policy is still focused on rewarding the systems, providers, and operators that best meet certain input measures, most of which are inappropriate for judging this emerging disruptive innovation of online learning.

In this, the last in a series of free discussions about key education issues, our panel will address which arrangements best support innovation in education and whether the focus should be on saying which schools and colleges are effective or if we should concentrate more on helping every institution improve what it does for young people.

Those are the same rules from which charter schools are exempt, a policy supporters say allows charters to flourish with longer school days, a focus on teacher merit instead of seniority, and other innovations.

A second iteration of Leaders and Laggards was released in 2009, which focused on the states that led the way in educational innovation.

This column focuses on four areas in which the charter sector is driving innovation through progressive practices: committing to college success, rethinking student discipline, increasing teacher diversity, and supporting vulnerable populations.