In the past twenty years, Italy's problems have remained depressingly familiar: a stagnating economy, an enormous national debt, high unemployment, a large, inefficient bureaucracy, and a political and educational system that discourages initiative, innovation, merit, and opportunity.
Self reports of individually initiated innovation projects by a cohort of 116 women were scored for innovation merit by a panel of female professionals from five disciplines (anthropology, scientific research (evolutionary biology), research technician, marketing executive, education professional).
But without meaningful metrics, boards will remain constrained in their ability to recognise poor performance or, perhaps more importantly, to identify innovations that merit wider dissemination.
No. Silicon Valley thinks of itself as built on merit, innovation, iteration, and rational thought, and to some extent it is, but its worldview can be even more blinkered and bubble-bound than that of the Ruling Party.
The American sporting scene is littered with innovations of dubious merit like the TV timeout, metal bats in baseball and oxymoronic "metal woods" in golf.
(HIV-positive man, early-30s) The recent increase in funding for healthcare in Africa merits innovation in delivery of health services to maximize population benefits.
We evaluate the scientific merit and innovation of each proposal carefully, often recognizing prudent risks.
She intends to seek research projects "where the statistical challenges are complex and the data sets really merit methodological innovation... [but where] the problem that the data set is describing or the solution that the data set is proposing to have can have a real impact".
Despite the echoes of past promises, the new document does represent a shift in policy, says Luc Soete, an expert on innovation who heads UNU-MERIT, a research institute in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Ayah Bdeir, littleBits founder and CEO, as well as a TED Senior Fellow, gave a TED talk last March about innovation and the educational merits of littleBits modules.
Efforts to catalog and synthesize evidence for mHealth for NCDs in SSA along such lines may assist stakeholders and policy makers in evaluating innovations and strategies that merit additional further investment.
