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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
innovation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Department For Innovation, Universities, and Skills, the
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
educational
▪ This in itself created a need for new schools and teachers, and therefore provided a platform for educational innovation.
▪ This is hardly a climate in which educational innovation could flourish.
▪ And fourth, this is not going to be a close scrutiny of the current wave of educational issues and innovations.
financial
▪ An extreme area of concern is the extent to which the regulatory system will stifle financial innovation.
▪ And it will be spent here, despite the Giants' claim to paradigm-busting financial innovation.
▪ With financial innovation, traditional instruments may become obsolete in influencing the money supply.
▪ Less known companies certainly will not get cash from them without ratings, preferably from the two top firms. Financial innovation.
▪ It is by no means clear that the process of financial innovation has run its course.
great
▪ Although the order does not propose any great innovations, it is worth making some brief comments on its background.
▪ He says that it's a great innovation.
▪ Heads now have the task of leading tired and disenchanted teachers through the greatest innovation of all.
▪ These great innovations, roughly speaking, are what this book is about.
▪ And what a great innovation the Provincial Insurance Cup for junior clubs has been.
▪ The history of parliamentary taxation in the Tudor period shows a greater degree of innovation.
important
▪ Gofers However, back to roadshow campaigning and an important innovation: Gofers.
▪ The unexpected failure may be an equally important innovation opportunity source.
▪ This piece also illustrates profoundly important innovations of musical idiom.
▪ It is clear, however, that important innovations were being made in republican political activity.
▪ The other important innovation was the rise of the professional opinion research agency offering its services and expertise in opinion polling.
▪ Technological advances meant that the new generations of machinery embodied important innovations.
▪ It is particularly important for innovations and community care.
▪ Now came an important technical innovation.
industrial
▪ We believe in investing in scientific research because it enriches the quality of our lives and provides the feedstock of industrial innovation.
▪ Existing research focuses on the generation and implementation of information technology, on gender and technology and on industrial innovation.
▪ An explanation advanced for this is that industrial innovations generate expansion.
▪ Further options focus specifically on the information and communication technologies; the management of industrial innovation and the implementation of new technologies.
major
▪ There are two major innovations incorporated in the new General Certificate of Secondary Education.
▪ But after that, for some seven centuries, there was no major technological innovation.
▪ People are an increasingly expensive resource and microcomputers will prove to be a major innovation in the improvement of the selection process.
▪ In the wake of a number of major technical innovations, acceptable limited of routine and stability were again established.
▪ Across a range of industries, major innovations are implemented in attempts to stem the decline in profits.
▪ The statesmen founders of the United States helped produce at least two major religious innovations.
▪ The programme of education reforms currently being introduced by central government requires schools simultaneously to introduce several major innovations.
▪ A number of major innovations have been attempted with regard to the student body.
new
▪ Mango to teddy bears - new innovations - from has launched two new muesli products under the's banner.
▪ Understanding the intricate mechanics of the human body will lead to new treatments or innovations like tissue regeneration.
▪ One of the newest innovations on the Manchester site is the £3m acid tank farm, which was commissioned in June 1990.
▪ They were the store where all the new innovations were launched.
▪ Spring and foam mattresses are a fairly new innovation, arguably combining the best of both worlds.
▪ Equilibrium is never achieved, because the market is always changing due to new information, innovation, and shocks.
other
▪ Among the other innovations described last June were a strengthening of the Cabinet Office's staff resources for science and technology.
▪ It may seem paradoxical, but knowledge-based innovation is more market dependent than any other kind of innovation.
▪ The other innovation of the early 1940s had not been generally adopted.
▪ The other important innovation was the rise of the professional opinion research agency offering its services and expertise in opinion polling.
▪ Their coinages are often in explicit contrast to familiar terms or to other innovations.
▪ Seniority reform made committee chairmen more beholden to their party and its leaders and other innovations carried this process further.
▪ Some of Mr Davies's other innovations are less satisfactory.
recent
▪ Until recent innovations, that meant the rural bus.
▪ Among recent shopping innovations: what is proclaimed to be the largest supermarket in the county.
▪ However, a recent innovation looks capable of being used throughout the mouth.
▪ Revenue sharing is a more recent innovation.
▪ Day centres for the mentally ill are a more recent innovation.
▪ At first, they rolled tires from crucible steel, a method predating Bessemer and the other recent innovations.
▪ A more recent innovation is vacuum distillation.
▪ The entry criteria were usually unclear, and the symptom criteria of Manning, Kruis, and Rome are recent innovations.
significant
▪ Loris-Melikov continued to press significant innovations to strengthen public support for the government.
▪ The other, probably more significant innovation, is that of the mixed mode degree, at present only offered by Thames Polytechnic.
▪ So here is another very significant Willadsen innovation.
successful
▪ He saw F International, her company of home-working software writers and consultants, as a model of successful innovation.
▪ In other cases, generating a demand requires the emplacement of an infrastructure of maintenance for the successful adoption of innovations.
▪ Partnership has been and remains the characteristic of successful innovation.
technical
▪ The Engineers School is responsible for many of the Empire's technical innovations over the past few centuries.
▪ In the wake of a number of major technical innovations, acceptable limited of routine and stability were again established.
▪ Invention is best treated as the subset of patentable technical innovations.
▪ Secondly, technical innovation may occur directly in the factory or workshop without any prior research expenditure and possibly as pure serendipity.
▪ The nine included product quality, technical back-up, innovation and environmental awareness.
▪ Their attitudes are clearly a significant factor in whether the technical innovation is successful.
▪ Traditional art history would include Bonnard for his technical innovations and largely marginalise Rodchenko for his politics and photography.
▪ It is in this context that many of the early technical innovations in the textile industry developed.
technological
▪ Research into technological innovation has generally assumed that although shifts have occurred they have been within a stable organisational framework.
▪ But after that, for some seven centuries, there was no major technological innovation.
▪ They take the initiative, come up with technological and organizational innovations, devise new solutions to old problems.
▪ Nothing can change, or will change, without technological innovations.
▪ Documentary research in the technical literature was undertaken to plan interviews and to identify key areas of technological innovation and technical uncertainty.
▪ In recent years, we have seen that technological innovation canoes forth modern values into hypermodern forms.
▪ These examples show that technological innovation is a messy process which is not easily managed.
▪ Invention is the first stage in the process of technological innovation.
■ NOUN
curriculum
▪ The course gives experience in curriculum innovation, development of learning materials, and evaluation.
process
▪ This graphic representation of idea growth provides information that will assist in the optimization of the stages of the innovation process.
▪ In short, an electronic marketplace is an interactive information service that supports the entire innovation process.
▪ However, what makes the innovation process work is a truly personalized interaction between facilitators and the cast of innovation players.
▪ These staff members have the designated responsibility to seek out and attract individuals who informally play various roles within the innovation process.
▪ Detailed information on the marketing activities of these firms will allow an examination of the role of marketing in the innovation process.
▪ An undue emphasis on the initial technological concept can lead to unrealistic expectations and an early abandonment of the innovation process.
product
▪ Dynamic competition to establish a dominant position may involve reducing costs, process innovation, and product innovation, which are welfare-enhancing.
▪ It had simply lost its way in terms of product innovation, the area in which Habitat had demonstrated itself to be supreme.
■ VERB
encourage
▪ Visionary leadership encourages innovation - fiction becomes experiment.
▪ There is clearly a fine line between stifling government intervention and encouraging creativity and innovation.
▪ Sections and departments hold brainstorming sessions and posters are displayed to encourage the climate of innovation.
introduce
▪ The programme of education reforms currently being introduced by central government requires schools simultaneously to introduce several major innovations.
▪ He was a man of creative vision, determined to introduce innovations of a truly heroic nature.
▪ President Reagan is probably right in thinking that private companies could introduce innovations to what has become rather a moribund operation.
▪ During his ministry he introduced many innovations which renewed devotion arid inspired the people to the performance of good works.
promote
▪ An open environment is good for the industry because it promotes innovation and cost reduction, which in turn promote competitiveness.
stimulate
▪ The interests which stimulated their innovation and guided their development and use were primarily those of political administration rather than the strictly academic.
▪ Third, customer-driven systems stimulate more innovation.
▪ There are, of course, devices available to the government to stimulate innovation, and we discuss some of these below.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Innovation and hard work are the cornerstones of this company.
▪ Innovations in information technology have completely transformed the way students work.
▪ All the latest technological innovations of cinema were used to create the special effects.
▪ Anti-lock brakes have been a major safety innovation.
▪ Electric lighting was still considered a daring innovation when it was installed in my grandfather's house.
▪ In those days, the automobile was a recent innovation.
▪ The kids-only Internet service is a great innovation which will help parents control their children's access to the Internet.
▪ What exactly will the impact of all these communication innovations be?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Innovation

Innovation \In`no*va"tion\, n. [L. innovatio; cf. F. innovation.]

  1. The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, commercial products, etc.
    --Dryden.

  2. A change effected by innovating; a change in customs; something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites.
    --Bacon.

    The love of things ancient doth argue stayedness, but levity and lack of experience maketh apt unto innovations.
    --Hooker.

  3. (Bot.) A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
innovation

mid-15c., "restoration, renewal," from Latin innovationem (nominative innovatio), noun of action from past participle stem of innovare (see innovate).

Wiktionary
innovation

n. The act of innovate; the introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.

WordNet
innovation

  1. n. a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation [syn: invention]

  2. the creation of something in the mind [syn: invention, excogitation, conception, design]

  3. the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society"; "he regards the fork as a modern introduction" [syn: initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, introduction, instauration]

Wikipedia
Innovation

Innovation is defined simply as a "new idea, device, or method". However, innovation is often also viewed as the application of better solutions that meet new requirements, unarticulated needs, or existing market needs. This is accomplished through more-effective products, processes, services, technologies, or business models that are readily available to markets, governments and society. The term "innovation" can be defined as something original and more effective and, as a consequence, new, that "breaks into" the market or society. It is related to, but not the same as, invention.

While a novel device is often described as an innovation, in economics, management science, and other fields of practice and analysis, innovation is generally considered to be the result of a process that brings together various novel ideas in a way that they affect society. In industrial economics, innovations are created and found empirically from services to meet the growing consumer demand.

Innovation (disambiguation)

Innovation is a new idea, or more-effective device or process.

Innovation may also refer to:

Innovation (signal processing)

In time series analysis (or forecasting) — as conducted in statistics, signal processing, and many other fields — the innovation is the difference between the observed value of a variable at time t and the optimal forecast of that value based on information available prior to time t. If the forecasting method is working correctly, successive innovations are uncorrelated with each other, i.e., constitute a white noise time series. Thus it can be said that the innovation time series is obtained from the measurement time series by a process of 'whitening', or removing the predictable component. The use of the term innovation in the sense described here is due to Hendrik Bode and Claude Shannon (1950) in their discussion of the Wiener filter problem, although the notion was already implicit in the work of Kolmogorov.

Innovation (magazine)

Innovation is a subscription-based magazine, compiling recent developments in the area of research in Singapore and globally. The format and style is designed to be accessible to an "educated layperson", and also includes relevant fields such as patenting. The magazine is jointly published by the National University of Singapore and World Scientific.

To date, local Singaporean companies such as the Defence, Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) and academia have been featured in the magazine.

Innovation (album)

'INNOVATION' was released on December 1, 2010 as the come back album of Japanese duo Pink Lady. Released as a 2-CD set, featuring re-recorded versions of single releases, b-sides and well known songs.

Innovation (television)

Innovation (1984–2004) is an American television series that aired on PBS. It covered topics on science, health and technology. It was produced at New York City public TV station WNET.

Usage examples of "innovation".

No innovation in the way they lived would have taken root if it had not given them an adaptive advantage in the endless struggle to survive.

He represented the peril of perpetual innovations, and the necessity of adhering to some system.

After we examined the advertising, sales promotion, public relations and direct marketing, we discovered that nowhere in their communication was anything that offered the customers comfort, excitement and innovation.

Perhaps the best view of all, however, is that after the early settlers of Eastern Polynesia were released from the conservative influence of Western Polynesian technology, they tanged some of their adzes and made other innovations in their artifacts.

His prudence rendered him averse to any great innovation, and though his temper was not very susceptible of zeal or enthusiasm, he always maintained an habitual regard for the ancient deities of the empire.

Victor Alexander, Colvile, Eden, 41-42, 115, 116n, 385,413 121,122,124 Chamberlain, Joseph, 195, 196, Competition between HBC and 197-198 rivals, 279-292 Chapman, Sidney E, 512, 520n, Computer Innovations, 542 558n Conoco, 536, 537 Chesshire, Bob, 233, 269, 370, Consignment, 281 393,395-396,402,403 Constable,john, 563, 564 Chester, David Andrew, 411 Continental Oil, 427, 586, 587 Chester, Isabel, 410 Cooch, FG.

There are few incentives for a Service or the Joint Staff to reward innovation or divestiture of roles or missions in order to change the character and mix of land, sea, air, and space forces and to prepare them to fight the battles we must envisage for the twenty-first century.

A month or two found even the Dodecagons infected with the innovation.

In the long period of twelve hundred years, which elapsed between the reign of Constantine and the reformation of Luther, the worship of saints and relics corrupted the pure and perfect simplicity of the Christian model: and some symptoms of degeneracy may be observed even in the first generations which adopted and cherished this pernicious innovation.

And an innovator in financial areas, Citibank in New York, for instance, is unlikely to embark on innovations in retailing or health care.

A well-known and successful innovator and entrepreneur who had built a process-based innovation into a substantial worldwide business in the space of twenty-five years was then asked to comment.

You introduce people to innovation and technological trends - but do you have any hands on experience as an innovator or a trendsetter?

Secretly he had been attempting an innovation at his brooders: a dragon almost as massive as the Jugger with the savage intelligence and agility of the Blue Horror.

Open Innovation companies use licensing extensively to create and extend markets for their technology.

NVG balanced the protection of the internal innovation process with the development of external paths to market for Lucent technologies.