The new White House initiative, Skills for America's Future, will try to foster more of these programs, and to certify a list of best practices for public-private retraining partnerships.
But to successfully manage research projects requires scientific initiative, bench skills, grant-writing skills, people management skills, and above all the ability to publish well and consistently.
Second, Fiji's joyful rout of Team GB in the rugby sevens final in Rio: a lesson in initiative, inspiration, skill, courage and, oh, just about everything.
Among Austrian generals, he demonstrated above-average initiative and skill, particularly in 1796 and 1809.
Perhaps the oldest operational pilot in the wartime RAAF, Pentland was responsible for rescuing airmen, soldiers and civilians, and earned the Air Force Cross for his "outstanding courage, initiative and skill".
With the changing role of the designer, the study supports the idea that teaching initiative entrepreneurial skills is essential as design skills for design students to survive in business world.
The Sochi Olympics are a prime example: the biggest contracts were given to firms run by Mr Putin's chums, including Arkady Rotenberg, his boyhood judo partner.This sort of thing creates a system of perverse incentives, fosters cynicism and cronyism and discourages those who want to use their initiative and skills.
Whereas in the prevention of brain waste an initiative on skills validation was started for returning migrants and concepts were formed on the level of recognition of qualification.
Everyone there had ideas, initiative and skills to offer, not only to their own team mates, but to their greater hacking community.
There is a plan, the Joint Initiative for Priority Skills Acquisition, to develop the skills base as ASGISA unfolds, but it will probably be too little, too late.The proposal to spend a lot of the money at the municipal level is fraught with risks too.
