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Institut de recherche et d'innovation

Originally founded by Bernard Stiegler and the Centre Pompidou, the IRI became an independent body in 2008, co-sponsored by the Centre Pompidou, the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, and Microsoft France.


Alex Steffen

In November 2006, Steffen published a survey of global innovation, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st century (ISBN 978-0810930957) with a foreword by Al Gore, design by Stefan Sagmeister and an introduction by Bruce Sterling.

Ambidextrous organization

Empirical studies also showed that pursuing exploratory innovation is more effective in dynamic environments, whereas pursuing exploitative innovation is more beneficial to a unit’s financial performance in more competitive environments (Jansen, van den Bosch, & Volberda, 2006).

Arthur D. Collins, Jr.

#Encourage change and innovation, while promoting quality and continuous quality improvement—as Jim Collins said, “Good enough never is.”

Assam University

Assam University is an institutional signatory to the Global Universities Network for Innovation (GUNI), Barcelona and United Nations Global Compact(UNGC) for its commitment to educational social responsibilities.

Beechworth

As well as winning the overall Australian title, Beechworth won the Dame Phyllis Frost Litter Prevention award sponsored by Hungry Jack's "Bag it & Bin it" program, the Energy Innovation

Bid‘ah

Religious innovation means inventing a new way of worshipping God that was not originally included in the message revealed to and propagated by Prophet Muhammad, and that opposes established forms.

Bundeswehr Military History Museum

Libeskind added a transparent arrowhead to the façade of the building, creating an outwardly visible expression of innovation.

Callimachus

Fantuzzi, M. & Hunter, R. Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (CUP, 2004).

Chris Lea

He was the director of facilities at Hart House at the University of Toronto, where as part of a team he won a Green Innovation Award in 2010, for a project to utilise electrical power generated from exercise bikes.

Cidade Limpa

Many of the graffiti images which had brought the city an international reputation for artistic innovation were destroyed and others badly damaged, including the officially approved 680 meter-long mural painted by the grafiteiros Os Gêmeos, Nunca and Nina along the 23 de Maio expressway.

Daniel C. Esty

He is a frequent commentator on NPR and has appeared on national TV talk shows such as The Colbert Report, The O'Reilly Factor, and Glenn Beck, to speak on issues of business innovation and the environment.

Eduserv Foundation

The Foundation was part of Eduserv, which is based in Bath, UK, and which continues to carry out research and innovation projects that build on the Foundation's work.

Eladio Dieste

A particular innovation was his Gaussian vault, a thin-shell structure for roofs in single-thickness brick, that derives its stiffness and strength from a double curvature catenary arch form that resists buckling failure.

EuroNanoForum 2011

An industrial panel during the closing plenary discussed ways in which public funding could contribute to the whole innovation pipeline, from research through demonstration to commercialisation and deployment.

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Foundation for Research Support of the State of São Paulo, or FAPESP) is a public foundation located in São Paulo, Brazil, with the aim of providing grants, funds and programs to support research, education and innovation of private and public institutions and companies in the state of São Paulo.

Futurussia

Futurussia is a community of young scientists, engineers, inventors and innovation managers, which was initially formed by open competition of Federal agency of youth affairs of Russia with the purpose to issue the challenge to think over a concept and to prepare proposals for a creation of an international innovation complex near Skolkovo village, ways to create this complex and valid machineries of interaction between science and business.

Graeme Turner

In his speech to the National Press Club (Australia) on 3 September 2008, the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (Australia), Senator the Hon Kim Carr announced that Professor Turner, had been appointed to the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC).

Hong Kong Council of Social Service

It is a program jointly sponsored by the Hong Kong Bank Foundation and Partnership Fund for the Disadvantaged of Social Welfare Department, HKCSS-HSBC Social Enterprise Business Centre (SEBC) of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service is a new initiative to promote social entrepreneurship, advance social innovation, synergize social enterprises' resources, network social conscious business executives and make a positive social change.

IIH

Innovations in International Health, an innovation platform that facilitates multidisciplinary research to develop medical technologies for developing world settings

Inclusive capitalism

Allen Hammond is Vice President of Special Projects and Innovation at the World Resources Institute: a Washington, DC-based, non-profit, environmental, think tank created in 1982 through a $15 million donation by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago (World Resources Institute website 2008).

Innogen Institute

The Innogen Institute is a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Sciences and the Open University that explores the social and economic impact of innovation in the life sciences and genomics.

Institute for Global Innovation Management

In May 2007, the Journal of Product Innovation Management ranked Northeastern University as the third most productive center in the world in innovation management research.

John Hagel III

John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, How World Of Warcraft Promotes Innovation; in: Willms Buhse/Ulrike Reinhard: Wenn Anzugträger auf Kapuzenpullis treffen (When Suits meet Hoodies), whois-Verlag 2009.

Kalypso LP

In 2010, Kalypso and Samsung SDS formed a strategic alliance to provide consulting services for business strategy, process innovation, PLM, and system implementation and operation.

Mark Dodgson

With colleagues David Gann and Ammon Salter at Imperial College London, he identified the emerging role of ‘innovation technology’ – a basket of technologies used to increase the speed and efficiency of innovation.

In 2003 he moved to become Director of the Technology and Innovation Management Centre at the University of Queensland.

Marla Malcolm Beck

Beck has appeared as a guest on CNBC, CNN and Fox Business News, and has also been a guest speaker for Women's Wear Daily Beauty Innovation Forum.

Meettheboss

Covering eight channels, including Leadership, Sales, Innovation, Technology, Marketing, Strategy, Human Capital and Governance, the channel features a mixture of one-on-one interviews with Fortune 500 CEOs, business leaders and entrepreneurs, talking-heads programmes and a Meet The Ninja leadership training portal.

Michael Newberry

He created and organized the Foundation for the Advancement of Art, which held a conference “Innovation, Substance, Vision: The Future of Art” at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan on October 6, 2003, featuring speakers: philosophers Stephen Hicks and David Kelley, vision scientist Jan Koenderick, and sculptor Martine Vaugel.

Movie Underground

The show revolved around the character The Night Watchman (played by Marc Chase) who guarded the Fortress of Television Innovation.

Music of Uttar Pradesh

During the eras of Guptas and Harsh Vardhans, Uttar Pradesh was a major center for musical innovation.

NewEdge

NewEdge was formed in 2003 from two separate companies with a similar vision of innovation: NewEdge, (founded by Pam Henderson, Ph.D. in Richland, WA, USA) and The Brewery (founded by Paul Stead in London, UK).

Nicholas Gruen

He was a founding chairman of Kaggle and is also a board member of Innovation Australia and Sustainability Victoria.

Nickel defense

The nickel defense originated as an innovation of Philadelphia Eagles defensive coach Jerry Williams in 1960 as a measure to defend against star tight end Mike Ditka of the Chicago Bears.

Peter Carl Goldmark

In 1972, he was recognized for his leadership in the field of technology innovation by the Industrial Research Institute when presented with the illustrious IRI Medal.

Photographic lens design

The last important Zeiss innovation before the Second World War was the technique of applying anti-reflective coating to lens surfaces invented by Olexander Smakula in 1935.

Private-collective model of innovation

The term private-collective model of innovation was coined by Eric von Hippel and Georg von Krogh in their 2003 publication in Organization Science.

Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone

RAK FTZ Promotion & Innovation Centre located in Dubai Festival City in Dubai.

Rashmi Bansal

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish, Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship, 2008, ISBN 978-81-904530-1-1

Scottish Science Advisory Council

Scotland has a proud tradition of science research and innovation, but this tends to be exclusively found in its main universities.

Serendipity

The notion of serendipity is a common occurrence throughout the history of scientific innovation such as Alexander Fleming's accidental discovery of Penicillin in 1928, and the invention of the microwave oven by Percy Spencer in 1945, to name but a few.

Skolkovo

Skolkovo Foundation, an organization in Russia charged with creating the Skolkovo innovation center

Social Innovation Camp

Organisers for International Social Innovation Camps include Soros Foundation, The Hope Institute, IREX, UNDP, Internews, The Eurasia Partnership Foundation, World Wide Narrative and others.

Strip mill

The strip mill was a major innovation, with the first being erected at Ashland, Kentucky in 1923.

The Kin-der-Kids

The Kin-der-Kidss "full-fledged, frankly suspenseful week-to-week continuity," writes cartooning historian Bill Blackbeard, was a "real innovation for the time" when even Winsor McCay's Little Nemo had not yet developed into ongoing stories.

Valerie Fox

In 2012, Valerie received the prestigious Canadian Women in Technology (CanWIT) Sara Kirke Award for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, provided by the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATAAlliance).

Walt Disney Treasures

In 2006, Gemstone Publishing published the first of two Walt Disney Treasures comic albums: "Disney Comics: 75 Years of Innovation", reprinting approximately 160 pages of vintage international comics in chronological order.

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

Perhaps the most significant innovation at this time derived from the ideas of Naum Gabo, who was interested in the principle of stereometry - defining forms in terms of space rather than mass.


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