“As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.” IfsShouldPoliticalAbilityLevelsPowerfulAudienceEconomyMediaFieldsSourceInternetShould HaveInnovationCustomersCorporationsEnginesDiscourseSmall BusinessPlaying FieldsForumsBloggersPolitical DiscourseLevel Playing Field Author:Al Franken
“We've lost an edge that we used to have in scientific innovation applications to goods to be sold. In many ways, that is also changing in the electronic field. Almost all of the materials that we use now are of advanced technology, I have an iPad and also an iPod, both of which are made in China. Although we have designed them here with Apple, for instance, they are manufactured overseas.” WayMadeUseUsedLostTechnologyFieldsMaterialsInnovationEdgesChinaInstanceApplesGoodsApplicationIpodsIpadsAdvanced TechnologyMade In China Author:Jimmy Carter
“Howard Hughes innovation was in the aviation field. His designs and spirit of experimentation was at the forefront. As far as his work as film producer, he certainly went after a bigger and more ambitious kind of filmmaking, even if he wasn't necessarily a cinema artist.” IfsKindFilmSpiritArtistDesignFieldsBiggerInnovationProducersCinemaAviationAmbitiousFilmmakingExperimentation Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“If we want growth today to be more innovation-driven, more inclusive and more sustainable, then we need a more active state, not a less active one. Yet we still hear the dogma that we should just fix market failure by focusing on science and infrastructure, and to "level the playing field."” IfsWantNeedsShouldStillsStatesTodayGrowthLevelsFieldsInnovationActiveDrivenDogmaInfrastructurePlaying FieldsMarket Failure Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.” PeopleHas BeensStillsSchoolProgressTeachingFieldsMaterialsAreasInnovationTextbooksCurriculumRevisionElementary School Author:Jonathan Kozol
“In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.” MindNaturalCreativityTechnologyLandFieldsResourcesAdvantageAppreciateInnovationIsraelDesertTransformedLackingFrontiersNatural ResourcesBarrenScience And TechnologyFlourishingCreativity And InnovationNew Frontiers Author:Shimon Peres
“The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.” LittlesSocialLevelsBehindsEconomicFieldsInternetInnovationRemarkableSiteBlogsInfluentialNo MoneyPlaying FieldsWikipediaLevel Playing FieldSocial Innovation Author:James Surowiecki
“Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity.” LooksOpportunityFieldsWillingListeningInnovationProductiveDemographicsDependable Book:Innovation and Entrepreneurship Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
“Innovating Women is more important today than ever. Things are changing for the better. The recent announcements by Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Facebook of their diversity numbers—and a pledge to improve these—are the most recent victories. The Boys Club is under fire and is trying to reform itself. Women are achieving success and helping each other. Advancing technologies are leveling the playing field. Women are in the catbird seat for the new era of exponential innovation. This is the time to inspire and motivate—and that is what Innovating Women will surely do.” TryingImportantHelpingTodayNumbersBoysTechnologyFireAchieveFieldsInspireVictoryDiversityInnovationClubsReformErasSeatsGooglePledgeAdvancingPlaying FieldsHelping Each OtherAnnouncementsChange For The BetterNew EraAchieving SuccessLinkedinInspire And Motivate Author:Vivek Wadhwa
“So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsKindPersonsProcessLinesFieldsThirdsInnovationFourthInnovators Author:Malcolm Gladwell