Frugal engineers at private companies such as Mindray, which makes medical devices, and Huawei, a telecoms giant, are devising technologies that are cheaper and sometimes better than their rich-world equivalents.
The possibility that that pace could quicken was conveyed by White House officials on the first day of a three-day meeting convened by the administration to devise a research plan for clarifying climate hazards and devising technologies to end emissions of heat-trapping, or greenhouse, gases altogether.
Development innovations may involve devising technology (such as a nanotech water treatment kit), creating a new approach (such as microfinance), finding a better way of delivering public services (such as one-stop egovernment service centres), identifying ways of working with communities (such as participation), or generating a management technique (such as organisation learning).
We've solved the problem of over-taxed muscles by devising technology to do just about everything muscles used to do.
"The Japanese experience is apparently going to be pretty bad, but mankind over the centuries has devised technologies that turned out to be very useful to mankind, developed them, taken some lumps from accidents and mishaps, made corrections to the technology and moved ahead," he said.
They also devised technology to protect the identities of Haystack's users.
Similarly, Phil Hughes, 66, has become chief executive of the Clustered Systems Company, a start-up born at TechShop that has devised technology for cooling computer servers.
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In addition, using our devised technology, we demonstrate localized staining of human breast cancer cell blocks and human breast cancer tissue sections.
Geoff McCormick, director of UK design firm The Alloy, which devises technology products, took apart an iPhone to explain the thousands of pieces of intellectual property that are contained in a modern smartphone.
The United States is never going to lead in areas like low-cost production, he said, but it can be a dynamo for devising new technologies and combining existing technologies in new ways.
