“The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.” Has BeensLastsEvolutionInternetConsequenceInnovationDecadesAccess Author:Vinton Cerf
“Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.” IfsThinkingLosesCreativeIndustryDiversityInnovationAccessProgressiveJuiceCreative Juices Author:Cate Blanchett
“We wanted to see how access to care can be expanded and service quality can be improved when one uses a participatory approach to program development. We showed that major changes become possible if you work in a participatory manner, listen to local people, diagnose what the problems are, provide training and identify where there are opportunities for mobilizing local resources to take action. In time leaders from other municipalities expressed interest in replication and the project succeeded in expanding innovations to three other areas.” PeopleIfsUseProblemCareActionWantedThreeOpportunityInterestQualityLeaderDevelopmentProjectsApproachMajorsTrainingResourcesAreasProgramInnovationAccessLocalsExpandingMunicipalityMajor ChangeQuality ServiceReplication Author:Ruth Simmons
“Our practical purpose is to facilitate expansion of service innovations on a larger scale to improve access to, and the quality of reproductive health care. We are very grateful to have received support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to continue our work.” CarePurposeQualitySupportInnovationFoundationGratefulBillsAccessScalesPracticalsHealth CareGatesExpansionFacilitateReproductive Health Author:Ruth Simmons
“All in all, the internet is a force for good, providing young entrepreneurs with access to an incredible wealth of information, has changed the way we see the world and is also a great source of innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities.” WorldWayYoungOpportunityForceWealthInformationChangedSourceInternetInnovationEntrepreneurIncrediblesAccessProvidingEntrepreneurialYoung Entrepreneurs Author:Richard Branson
“For the present system to work, poor people must be excluded from the innovation, because if they could get access at an affordable price, then affluent people would find ways to buy it cheaply as well - and then the innovator would be poorly rewarded and introductions of new medicines would decline.” PeopleIfsWayWellsWould BePoorInnovationMedicineAccessDeclinePoor PeopleIntroductionAffordableInnovatorsExcludedAffluent Author:Thomas Pogge
“Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.” PeopleWorkCreativityCreativeModernInnovationAccessIronSteelWorkplaceCoalCreative PeopleModern BusinessIron Ore Book:The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded Source: The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded
“In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform. There's a strong tempation to close the platform, because they look at what they can accomplish when they limit the competitors' access to the platform, and they say 'That's really exciting.'” NeedsLooksHappensTodayOrderStrongLimitsHappeningsExcitingInnovationAccomplishAccessBunchOpennessPlatformsGoogleEpicCompetitorsValve Author:Gabe Newell