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“The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.”

Way Moving Deals Innovation Best Way Technological Keep Moving

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.”

Process Deals Innovation Driven Fund Uncertain Venture Too Short Exit Venture Capital Lengthy

Author:Mariana Mazzucato

“Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these subjects, they do not constitute great innovations in mathematics.... Neither determinants nor matrices have influenced deeply the course of mathematics despite their utility as compact expressions and despite the suggestiveness of matrices as concrete groups for the discernment of general theorems of group theory.”

Source: Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times

“It takes a great deal of humility to recognize you have made a wrong turn on the road to successful innovation, but better to stop and try a radically different approach then to continue down the wrong route for too long.”

Trying Long Made Different Turns Deals Successful Humility Approach Innovation Routes Road To Success Turn-on Wrong Turn Different Approach

Author:Scott D. Anthony

“Not only do innovators have to deal with all of the fundamental challenges of innovation, they have to do so in an environment that often is implicitly hostile towards innovation.”

Challenges Deals Environment Innovation Fundamentals Hostile Innovators Often Is

Author:Scott D. Anthony

“What is needed is both a New Deal in terms of mission-oriented investments but also a new deal in terms of a modern social compact - one that allows the state to socialize not only risks but also rewards. Maybe then innovation-led growth will also become growth that includes all of us.”

States Social Growth Term Deals Risk Modern Needed Innovation Investment Rewards Missions Compact New Deal

Author:Mariana Mazzucato

“The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet hear within its wild randomizing abandon the possibilities of innovation and transformations.”

Real Seems Lying Ability Deals Secret Possibility Adventure Capacity Transformation Innovation Noise Abandon Tolerate Ambiguity

Author:William Thompson

“I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.”

Art Deals Creativity Practice Masters Innovation

Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“If you want the best things to happen in corporate life you have to find ways to be hospitable to the unusual person. You don't get innovation as a democratic process. You almost get it as an anti-democratic process. Certainly you get it as an antithetical process, so you have to have an environment where the body of people are really amenable to change and can deal with the conflicts that arise out of change an innovation.”

People Ifs Way Want Persons Body Happens Process Deals Environment Conflict Innovation Democratic Climate Arise Corporate Best Things Unusual Democratic Process Amenable

Author:Max De Pree