Reed did not mention those grants in his criticism of competition initiatives.
Even Facebook and Google have discovered the constraints to their power, such as global competition, initiatives to curtail Google in Europe and difficulty penetrating the large market of China, Naím said on CNN Monday.
The winning schools in this year's Project: Greenhouse competition, an initiative of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar's (WCM-Q) Sahtak Awalan – Your Health First campaign, have been announced.
On Tuesday, New York City rolled out the next phase of its NYC BigApps competition, an initiative that will supply local programmers and developers with a stockpile of raw municipal data sets to build applications for the Web and mobile phones.
In 1999, Mr. Marlin warned that the city and its educational institutions "lagged seriously behind Silicon Valley and the Boston/Route 128 area". But aggressive rezoning under Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor, as well as his Applied Sciences NYC competition, an initiative to get top universities interested in starting new campuses in the city, altered the equation.
Teamsurv has been granted funding for its project from the UK Satellite Navigation competition, an initiative set up to support start-ups that use satellite data.
The Obama administration made teacher evaluations a centerpiece of its Race to the Top competition, an initiative the White House now credits for inspiring over 100 new state laws that encouraged the creation of charter schools and mandated teacher evaluations that relied on test scores -- but now, implementation is stalled in many places.
By the end of the 1990s, as the process improvement spirit took hold, metrics drove competition, new initiatives proliferated and delivery times came down by almost two-thirds.
It was supposed to combine competition and private initiative with a good measure of traditional socialism.
The six-year old competition is an initiative of the Swiss-based African Innovation Foundation AIFF) which promotes innovation on the continent.
