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Visionaries, Revolutionaries, Catalysts. Generative innovations are those which create positive externalities that help other innovations succeed in their objectives. The goal is to find indexes of innovations, and individual innovations that may be generative.
brains of fiction readers and discovered that their test subjects created intense, graphic mental simulations of the sights, sounds, movements, and tastes they encountered in the narrative. In essence, their brains reacted as if they were actually living the events they were reading about.
She speaks Portuguese and knows how to manage email and navigate on the Internet. She is a potential connector between the online participation in the Brazilian House of Representatives and the offline community group that she leads, simply by using a personal computer and dial-up Internet access. Thus, a greater effort from the House should be made to aggregate several cross-country connectors and include more offline people in digital legislative discussions.
Their citizenry possess higher levels of "social capital," which depends on positive interactions between people, on a level of trust created by low crime, better education, and greater economic development. He concluded that trust was the variable that showed whether a society was working well, and when it did, the economy would take off on its own.
reflection of governance in the life of its citizen, transparency and accountability. Indeed, going by these criteria, no other African leader could have gotten the award.
Other researchers are developing different types of energy-producing shock absorbers. Lei Zuo, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, N.Y., has built two prototypes that generate electricity with electromagnets, producing potential fuel efficiency gains of 2 to 10 percent, he said. One prototype already matches standard dimensions of shock absorbers, and the second will do so, too, he said.
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Generative Innovations
Visionaries, Revolutionaries, Catalysts. Generative innovations are those which create positive externalities that help other innovations succeed in their objectives. The goal is to find indexes of innovations, and individual innovations that may be generative.
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sometimes I make negative or unpopular comments to provoke thought. What about reverse trolls? what about popular on one topic but not on another...
but i guess we all have to take imperfect wobbly baby steps (and fall on our faces and cry) until we get there :-)
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