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Understanding innovation's past leads to incredible insight

Jeffrey Phillips

Innovation in these days was often focused on communication - Marconi, the "wireless", radio and other devices reduced the distances and built common stories for the American public. Washington DC, formerly a very small, sleepy city, grew dramatically during the war, and the federal government grew in importance.

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Choosing your direction of travel

Paul Hobcraft

For instance, earlier engagement with governments, with research institutes, publishing new findings in more open ways, less restrictive on a sharing data all might allow the communities to search for a different model of discovery to commercialization. Both the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry are knowledge-based.