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“You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.”

“The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“No amount of tools can help a bad product. You have to remain genuine in your product development innovation and quality.”

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Author:Kara Swisher

“There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, which is true. But you also have to remember that much of that innovation is constrained within the realities of the foreign policy.”

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Author:Evgeny Morozov

“With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.”

“Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.”

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Book:Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

“Even though effective competition is the best tool to strengthen innovation and competitiveness in Europe, state aid can also play a very useful supporting role.”

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Author:Neelie Kroes

“Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information”

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Author:William Hunter

“Great innovations, powerful interactions and real art are often produced by someone in a state of wonder. Looking around with stars in your eyes and amazement at the tools that are available to you can inspire generosity and creativity and connection”

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Author:Seth Godin

“Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.”

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Book:Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

“A key part of helping startups is providing them with a G/SCORE that measures a company on the path to sustainability. We score companies from around the world and use Knoodle so they can easily sync video and presentations together for a more effective pitch. We send these pitches to judges all around the world and it's critical that we have a flexible tool that is easy to create, easy to deliver, and effective at letting audiences understand the entrepreneur and their innovation.”

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Author:Chris Shipley

“The idea of having more technology solving this idea of hyperactive lifestyle is not really the mainstream problem. I think the real innovation that’s going to be rewarded will be on things like, let’s convert our computers from being tools to being companions. Let’s convert our computers from being utilitarian to being enlightening. These are human needs.”

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Author:Horace Dediu

“To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and under-age children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.”

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Author:Barbara Tuchman

“Technology can empower or control, depending on its use. Innovation requires wisdom and responsibility to ensure progress serves humanity. Tools must enhance life rather than dominate it.”

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Author:Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“Let’s create positive change on this planet; With either: the hyper sophisticated tools we have, or the mobile device we are”

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Author:Natasha Tsakos