Research And Innovation Quotes:

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

- Bill Gates

topic: Research And Innovation, Basic Research

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

- Margaret Heffernan

topic: Ideas, Innovation, Needs, Research And Innovation, Ideas And Innovation

Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.

- Watts Humphrey

source: Watts S. Humphrey (1997). “Managing Technical People: Innovation, Teamwork, and the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

topic: Creativity, Ideas, Innovation, Innovative Leadership, Creativity And Innovation

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

- Roger von Oech

source: Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

topic: Inspirational, Letting Go, Creativity, Innovation And Business, Innovation Inspiration

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

- Peter Drucker

source: Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.183, Routledge

topic: Innovation, Growth, Age, Research And Innovation, Rapid Change

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

- Victor Hugo

source: Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

topic: Education, Business, Men, Labour Day, Labour Day Weekend

Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical role to play in this complex world of ours. Higher education and research are worthy of your much closer attention. Yes, we can be and should be the clever country. Our progress can be within the highest ethical and moral framework. But this will only happen if we place appropriate emphasis on education, research and innovation within a truly international framework.

- Gustav Nossal

topic: Leadership, Country, Clever, Research And Innovation, Yes We Can

The trend lines in research and innovation look good for places such as India and China and less good for America as we go forward. So even if you're not enchanted by the prospect of cosmic discovery, the prospect of dying poor may be what it takes to understand the role of this adventure in the future of the natural world in which we live.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Adventure, America, Discovery, Research And Innovation

I am a great believer in research and innovation.

- Robert Mondavi

source: Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Research And Innovation

There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.

- Laurent Fabius

topic: Europe, Competition, Innovation, Research And Innovation

Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer education will help. Most importantly, though, will be the continually declining cost trajectory of the real breakthrough in clean-technology costs driven by research and innovation. In the end, private capital is the real barometer of change.

- Vinod Khosla

source: "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

topic: Real, Technology, Goal, Research And Innovation, Trajectory