One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate. – Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years? – Brian Ferneyhough
Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on the road of innovation. – Charles Duhigg
What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren’t passing the technology forward. – Bre Pettis
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact. – Barack Obama
Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science. – Burton Richter
One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what’s gotten you there thus far. – Andrew Mason
We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation. – Gary Hamel
The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It’s this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company. – Ginni Rometty
Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to ‘crowdsource’ ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services. – Geoff Mulgan
Environmental protection and economic development are not in conflict. Environmental protection is not a burden but a source for innovation. It can increase competition, create jobs, and lifts the economy. – Chai Jing
Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations. – Martin Heinrich
Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations. – Dilip Shanghvi
As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation. – Edmund Phelps
Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of the story. Like any innovation, broadband will inflict major changes on its environment. It will destroy, once and for all, the egalitarian vision of the Internet. – Charles Platt
One of the keys to Jewish culinary history is that the Jewish role was not so much innovation but transition and transformation. – Gil Marks
Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess. – David Suzuki
Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well. – Peter Diamandis
Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing. – Dan Kaminsky
Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing. – Marvin Bower
The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater. – Diane Paulus
Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime. – Geoff Mulgan
The comparison to the old world is something to get excited about. We have the potential for more choice and innovation, and a different regulatory environment that doesn’t place as much weight on economic regulations of terms and conditions. – Michael K. Powell
My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business. – Frederick W. Smith
Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship. It drives everything: Job creation, poverty alleviation, innovation. – Elliott Bisnow
America’s growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with America’s growth rate is a brutal work schedule. – Fareed Zakaria
Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, ‘Oh, no; that’ll never work. It’s too different.’ – Nolan Bushnell