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What Steph Curry and LeBron James Can Teach Us About Innovation

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James and Curry have come to dominate the NBA in two very different ways, and in doing so embody two very different types of innovation. Most teams win—and most players succeed—through a series of incremental innovations that provide continuous, but gradual improvement. Imagine an NBA team like a product.

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Investing in Manufacturing Innovation & Competitiveness: Will the next Silicon Valley be located in the United States?

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Editor's Note : In this guest blog post from Adams Nager, of ITIF (Information Technology & Innovation Foundation) , he stresses the importance of fostering innovation and spurring competitiveness of American Manufacturing by focusing on more R&D from both the public and private sectors. In fact, much of U.S. Unless the U.S.

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Reshoring Optimism, But Not Much Else

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Isolated examples are widely repeated because of public desire for good economic news as well as firms’ desire to improve public image by loudly publicizing their relocation. The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation will soon have a special report on their website next month for download on Reshoring.

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What Creates Jobs? Welcoming STEM Workers

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For example, one study found that from 1995 to 2005, over 52 percent of startup companies in Silicon Valley had at least one immigrant founder. In summary, STEM workers represent a vital component of America’s innovation economy and are key drivers of broader employment growth, as the Bay Area Council’s report ably highlights.

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Everybody Needs STEM Talent

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It is a prime example of a company that is indeed not thought of as a technology company demanding large quantities of STEM talent. Prior to ITIF, Adams was a student at Washington University in St. Louis, where he earned an M.A. CVS also has extensive need for programmers, data specialists, and operations managers.

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High-Tech Nation: How Technological Innovation Shapes America’s 435 Congressional Districts

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For years, policy discussions about America’s technological innovation-driven, high-tech economy have focused on just a few.

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28 supply chain professionals share the biggest challenges of supply chain management

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For example, if my contract manufacturer is late with an order it can cause me to incur excess costs with the freighting and warehousing companies, respectively. from Washington University St. Louis, M.S. For example, a certain product is ready to be shipped from the manufacturing facility. University of North Texas.