The towns - from Cornwall to Northumberland - will try out ideas proposed by Ms Portas in her High Street review.
But the danger is that it is also becoming a less friendly place to try out inventive ideas.
Sure, we should remain skeptical of the next reform fad, but we still need to try out new ideas, give choice a chance, and and remain just as skeptical of the status quo.
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates should use more of their money to set up region-specific venture capital funds and micro-lending organizations with main goals not to get killer returns but to give entrepreneurs the ability to try out their ideas.
After Bill Clinton left office, the Republicans had a chance to try their ideas out.
BBC's new channels, it seems odder still to argue that Britain's biggest broadcaster should not try out good new ideas.
Working with a terrific group of colleagues to shape a business school for the future, I have an opportunity almost every day to try out some of my ideas about leading and energizing talented knowledge professionals and experts.
With this, developers have what they need to try out all sorts of crazy ideas relying on a wide assortment of sensors.
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And all of us, in both government and the private sector, will need to come up with new ideas, try out new approaches, and rely on our courage and our common sense to guide us along the way.
This is the time where you can try out new interests and test new ideas.
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For more ideas for resolutions to try, check out the archives of videos here.
And a host of other governors, hopefully Democrat and Republican governors, will put ideas forward, put concepts forward, try them out in their states.
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As Obama said Friday, he wants to try to "get past the habit" that ideas can be born out of one "ideological corner" or another.
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