Agency Quote by Ruth Simmons

When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.

— Ruth Simmons

Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and to help…

— Robert Hormats

With support from institutions like the United Nations as well as the donor community, governments can strengthen their national technological and scientific capacities by…

— Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Even an organization that doesn't do much work internationally will benefit from a culturally intelligent strategy to innovation. Working across different generations, business units,…

— David Livermore

Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.

— Peter Drucker

By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways.

— Robert Higgs

If we want to make progress in key areas now, we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies. So not only…

— Mary Robinson

Most people have a very strong sense of organizational ownership, but I think what people have to own is an innovation agenda, and everything…

— Satya Nadella

Empowering innovations transform something that is complicated and expensive into something that is so much more simple and affordable that a much larger population…

— Clayton Christensen

Companies, communities and governments have to be innovators, and they cannot do it alone.

— Julie Sweet

Major global institutions need to harvest clean tech knowledge wherever it can be found and integrate it into their major export systems.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi