Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths and misinformation, by stereotypes and shibboleths, and by an inate resistance to innovation.
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can make the kind of long-term, common investments that we need to overcome those barriers to innovation.
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.
The foremost challenge is that of the knowledge revolution. Economic power will depend on creativity and innovation. Creation of wealth will move from traditional resources to the one asset: knowledge.
Any story has a beginning, middle, and end, of course, but the question is, where do you start it exactly? It's about a guy who is murdered in a fistfight, but how does it evolve and what does it mean? That's what I discovered scene by scene, and this innovation of coming in as a first-person narrator was a complete surprise to me. It just happened.
If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.
If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.
If you want to express your creativity, then don't choose a path where someone else tells you what to do and how to do it. Choose a path where creativity is rewarded, not punished.
For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.
Our industry is going through quite a wave of innovation and it's being powered by a phenomenon which is referred to as the cloud.
I would love to see all open-source innovation happen on top of Windows.
This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making.
Given all that history has shown us of the consequences of technology - from the atlatl spear to the A-bomb - why have so few groups of human beings managed to resist the incursions of technology? Or be choosy about the extent to which they'll employ a technological innovation?
There's nothing efficient about innovation.
Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle
Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.
The strengths of America's international standing continue to be innovation, opportunities and vibrancy.
This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.
When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is usually on the front lines.
The longer you wait to launch an innovation, the less your effort is worth.
I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very specialized.
Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.
The school at which you studied - design school, disruptive school, TRIZ school, user-centered innovation school, etc - determines the specific words you use.
I think people make innovation much more complicated than it needs to be.
