“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
“Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power-Us. We are the future.” NeedsSourceInnovation Book:The Truth about Innovation Source: The Truth about Innovation
“Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.” SourceAdvantageInnovationManagementRewardsEndureFirmCompetitive AdvantageVanguard Author:Gary Hamel
“The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.” IdeasDesignProductsSourceDiscoveryInnovationResponsibleInventionNew IdeasNew ThoughtNew Knowledge Author:W. Edwards Deming
“Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."” DifferentWholeIndividualTermInterestProgressSecurityPolicySourceInnovationDiscussionAccountabilitySoftwareVocabularyDiscussingPublic PolicyCalculusDevelopersPublic InterestOpen Source Author:Evgeny Morozov
“The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions as outpacing scientific management among U.S. innovations where bossing was concerned. Amidst the general miseries of proletarianization, workers also learned that one source of meager benefits and protections could lie in claiming a white skin.” WorldWarLyingWhiteSourceBenefitsConcernedLaborSkinsInnovationManagementMiseryWorkersProtectionWar Of The WorldsTensionHistorianPioneersWorld War OneWhite Skin Author:David Roediger
“Energy is a sector of the economy that has been particularly resistant to innovation. This is precisely the problem. It is why we are still dependant on energy sources that are 100 to 150 years old while virtually every other sector of the economy has transformed itself. This is why we believe that the faith that many environmentalists still hold that carbon regulations and taxes will drive sufficient private sector investment into energy markets to create the kind of innovation we need is unfounded.” NeedsYearsBelieveKindHas BeensStillsProblemEnergyEconomySourceTaxesInnovationInvestmentSufficientTransformedRegulationCarbonPrivate SectorEnvironmentalistEnergy Sources Author:Ted Nordhaus
“It is worth noting that virtually every alternative energy source we have - solar, wind, nuclear, and battery and fuel cell technologies for storage - resulted from public innovation and R&D, not private. The problem is that we haven't done enough of it, and we have done it inconsistently.” DoneEnoughProblemEnergyTechnologyHavensWindSourceInnovationNuclearCellsAlternativesFuelBatteriesStorageEnergy SourcesAlternative EnergyFuel Cells Author:Ted Nordhaus
“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
“The most effective CEOs have a primary source for tracking their markets. They meet with their teams frequently enough to keep innovation flowing, to reduce and focus costs, to be energized. They create a tight agenda and they set high goals.” EnoughGoalFocusTeamSourceCostInnovationPrimariesAgendasCeoTrackingPrimary SourceHigh Goals Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.” EndsIndividualEffortGroupsSourceKeysEmpowermentInnovationSmall GroupsOpen Source Author:Tim O'Reilly