(2) Different types of instruments promote different types of innovations: general economic instruments has primarily encouraged incremental innovation, general regulatory instruments has enforced improvements based on modular innovation, and technology-specific instruments appears to have been needed to support the development and deployment of radically new technologies.
The offshore industry has to get ahead of the curve on developing, implementing, enforcing improvements in offshore operational reliability and safety.
Within a month, a cadre of mostly European fashion chains, including H&M, Zara, C&A, Tesco and Primark, signed a legally binding agreement to help fund and enforce safety improvements in Bangladeshi factories.
DIS introduced feedback information to suppliers to enforce quality improvements.
In this case, direct monitoring through a yearly audit could enforce the improvement of social conditions on the production site.
Many powerful parts of the media and their vested interests will vehemently oppose any change in the law that enforces press improvement, but it is a case of balancing their rights with our responsibility to protect children.
Starting from the initial guess, we ran DE for 200 generations without enforcing any improvement (random walks) and randomly picked a parameter vector from the last generation as a potential starting point.
The Bush administration had neglected to work on the specific regulations, without which it would have been difficult to enact the law, which intends to enforce a 40 per cent improvement in mileage performance in cars by 2020.
By 2008, after five million American manufacturing jobs had been shipped overseas, presidential candidate Barack Obama criticized Sen. Hillary Clinton for her support and referred to NAFTA as 'a mistake.' Obama went on to make repeated promises to renegotiate and enforce labor and environment improvements.
