It will make use of existing initiatives - Concept Viability, in which the firms can advise government on if and how an idea can be fulfilled, and Innovation Den, which gives firms a 20 minute spot to present themselves to government buyers and potential industry partners - and involve new efforts.
Along with various environmental initiatives, the concept of green marketing emerged in the late 1980s.
"We made all the right calls," he says, including creating an "A team" of top staff to captain initiatives, a concept borrowed from GE and its ex-chief, Jack Welch a key influence on Kamath.
This initiative sprung from the Child-Friendly Schools for Africa Initiative, a concept that encourages community participation in school management.
Responsible Innovation (RI) initiatives and concepts are also developed in different forms all over Europe, and beyond, without necessarily referring to the European Commission RRI concept (see von Schomberg 2012 and Owen et al. 2012).
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS), in collaboration with CSIRO has created the NanohouseTM Initiative, a concept that serves as the conceptual framework for various pedagogical, scientific, architectural and engineering activities at the University.
In conclusion, we present some new initiatives and concepts of interest to reduce the number of orphan enzymes but, also, to extend the landscape of enzymes by finding new activities.
At the core of many voluntary initiatives is the concept of product stewardship, or encouraging computer manufacturers to incorporate environmental responsibility into the entire life cycle of their products: design, use and end-of-life.
Initiatives similar in concept and ultimate goals to the C. elegans deletion project are underway for several model organisms.
To date, there has been little research to understand how to move peace through health initiatives successfully from concept to implementation [ 6], stimulating calls for a new discipline [ 7, 8].
Some critics said that by setting its sights low, the Bulldozer Initiative devalued the concept of economic reform.
