The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has funded breakthrough innovation and new growth industries that are driving down the cost of clean energy and building the foundation for competitive 21st century U.S. industries, according to a new White House report released today on the impacts of the U.S. stimulus bill.
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Doing this is essential to fueling the social innovation cycle and achieving breakthrough gains in social impact.
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It is time for CIOs to refocus and lead their teams toward breakthrough technology innovation, pre-empting new business value proposals for their company to deliver to the market.
In these cases, the report concludes, a clearly defined Federal role can catalyze breakthrough advances, promote market-based innovation, and encourage more competitive market outcomes.
And it takes dedication to creating a culture, an environment, where constant innovation is encouraged and expected and breakthrough thinking, products and services are the end result.
In June of 2010, the Breakthrough Institute, Brookings Institution, and Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) released a report calling on Congress to use the America COMPETES reauthorization as an opportunity to strengthen U.S. competitiveness in the rapidly growing and critically important clean energy technology sector.
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Through breakthrough technological innovation, they extend the productivity frontier of companies and society.
It broke ranks with its peers, and returned to its scientists the freedom to pursue unfettered breakthrough innovation.
Trade with China enables our high-tech companies to stay on the cutting edge of innovation by focusing more resources on design and new breakthrough products.
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But, in every case, there was a senior partner who took responsibility for authorizing, nurturing, and protecting both the dream and the team, so that the innovation effort had an honest chance of making the breakthrough they were convinced was possible.
To create breakthrough innovation in cooking is not by the classic scientific method of carefully-planned-in-advance-and-in-detail research, or teleological, activities, but through trial and error.
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Moreover it leverages the brains and talents of thousands of people, any one of whom might generate either an incremental innovation or a breakthrough idea.
Carmine Gallo is a communications coach and the author of four books, including The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough Success (McGraw-Hill, October, 2010).
This multifaceted focus on innovation, manufacturing, and markets, bears a striking resemblance to the comprehensive clean economy strategy the Breakthrough Institute has spent much of the past two years advocating through an ongoing series of reports, policy recommendations, Congressional testimony, and writings.
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