After the US just dedicated $1 Billion to Georgia (the country), Thomas Friedman writes for the Times how innovation, which is America’s “most important competitive advantage”, is not present in either political party’s conversation:
While we still have enormous innovative energy bubbling up from the American people, it is not being supported and nurtured as needed in today’s supercompetitive world. Right now, we feel like a country in a very slow decline – in infrastructure, basic research and education - just slow enough to lull us into thinking that we have all the time and money to play around in Tbilisi, Georgia, more than Atlanta, Georgia.
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As Chuck Vest, the former president of M.I.T., said to me: “Both candidates have spoken a lot about ‘change,’ but in most areas of need, innovation is the only mechanism that can actually change things in substantive ways. Innovation is where creative thinking and practical know-how meet to do new things in new ways, and old things in new ways.
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According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, to innovate means:
make changes in something established, esp. by introducing new methods, ideas, or products : the company‘s failure to diversify and innovate competitively.
• [ trans. ] introduce (something new, esp. a product) : innovating new products, developing existing ones.
Tags: innovation, politics
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