“I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.” WayBelieveFactsSuccessI BelieveResearchInnovationI Believe InFundBasic ResearchResearch And Innovation Author:Bill Gates
“Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.” NeedsPlayProblemBigsGovernmentAblePolicyHugeSolutionsResearchResourcesInnovationFundCrucialComponentsBig ProblemsPublic PolicyBasic Research Author:Bill Gates
“Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.” SchoolTeacherDesignInnovationDrivenFundDriversEvaluateAlberta Author:Andy Hargreaves
“Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.” ProcessDealsInnovationDrivenFundUncertainVentureToo ShortExitVenture CapitalLengthy Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“Our Government understands that local, community organizations are essential in addressing social issues like economic development, poverty, education and integration in Canadian communities. The Community and College Social Innovation Fund will connect the innovative talent of researchers and students at colleges and polytechnics to meet the research needs of local community organizations to build stronger, safer, healthier communities.” NeedsGovernmentSocialCommunityPovertyIssuesEconomicTalentStudentsCollegeDevelopmentEssentialsResearchOrganizationStrongerInnovationLocalsFundIntegrationSocial IssuesInnovativeResearchersEconomic DevelopmentLocal CommunitySocial Innovation Author:Ed Holder
“With the Health Impact Fund, the innovation is paid for separately, through publicly funded health impact rewards, and the product is sold at the cost of production to all. Here, the cruel injustice of preventing the poor from buying at cost - evidenced by today's suppression of the trade in generic versions of patented medicines - would no longer be needed.” TodayPoorProductsNeededCostPaidInnovationTradeImpactMedicineRewardsInjusticeProductionsVersionsBuyingFundPreventingSuppressionGeneric Author:Thomas Pogge
“You can think of the Health Impact Fund as a mechanism that would keep the benefits and burdens of pharmaceutical innovation for the affluent roughly as they are while massively reducing the burdens presently imposed upon the poor. This sounds like magic. But it really works because the current system is not Pareto efficient. It's a system that generates hundreds of billions of dollars in litigation costs and deadweight losses that HIF-registered medicines would sidestep. By avoiding these losses, the HIF reform can bring improvements all around - including for pharmaceutical innovators.” ThinkingSoundLossPoorMagicCostBenefitsInnovationImpactDollarsMedicineIncludingCurrentsBurdenBillionsImprovementReformFundMechanismEfficientAvoidingWeight LossReducingInnovatorsAffluentPharmaceutical Author:Thomas Pogge
“The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.” PeopleShouldIdeasAbleInterestGoneCenturyNeededProgramPaidInnovationLifetimeChinaSolveDebtGreat ThingsGlobal WarmingFund21st CenturyGreat IdeaTransportation Author:Michael Moore
“Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.” SeemsDifficultInnovationScaryRadicalFund Author:Nolan Bushnell
“It's a slow process, but it is scary, because if someone can control your energy sources, they can control you. We are already being told what light bulbs we can and cannot use...through legislation. We are being forced to fund research into alternative energies sources that are inefficient, and that cause the price of food, energy, and everything else to rise...through legislation...rather than allow free enterprise to allocate funds to those energy sources that will survive through good old American innovation!” IfsUseLightEnergyCausesProcessSourceResearchInnovationScaryAlternativesEnterpriseGlobal WarmingFundLegislationBulbsFree EnterpriseLight BulbEnergy SourcesAlternative Energy Author:Mike Thompson
“When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.” ThinkingWayIdeasEnoughOpportunityCreativityWorryCreativeBlessingInnovationStartingCurseFundCreative ThinkingStarting Out Book:Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life Source: Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life
“We understand the need to balance our short- and longer-term needs because our revenue is the engine that funds all our innovation. But over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.” NeedsWellsDoeTodayTermProductsInternetBalanceInnovationPartnersSignificantStreamsFundEnginesGoogleRevenueEmergingUsage Author:Larry Page