Encouraging innovation

Encouraging innovation

Innovation is central to the scientific endeavor, and yet the current system of funding in the United States discourages innovation, especially in the young. Subtle alterations to the funding system, guided in part by the success of the European Research Council, could have major effects on encouraging innovation.

Patent Buyouts: A Mechanism for Encouraging Innovation

The PossibiliTy of encouraging innovaTion and comPeTiTion

The productive ward: encouraging teambuilding and innovation.

The aim of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement's Productive Ward series is to remove wasteful activities from ward processes and reinvest the time saved in making care more interactive, stimulating, reliable and safe. This article describes how the introduction of Productive Ward on one unit in a mental health trust has delivered improvements in general ward organisation and a rang...

Encouraging innovation by means of IT-based cooperation Working paper

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