However it is very difficult to persuade funders to support this innovative pilot.
As mayoral news conferences go, this one had all the usual Bloomberg trappings: a powerful commissioner, an Ivy League academic, an innovative pilot program and money from a private charity.
"We think our innovative pilot would have done more to protect people from the crippling effects of preventable illnesses like diabetes and obesity than anything else being proposed elsewhere in this country — and at little or no cost to taxpayers," Mr. Bloomberg said in a statement.
The strategy includes a commitment to test services which embody these principles with a range of innovative pilot projects.
The present review incorporated an innovative pilot-formed checklist in an effort to evaluate the methodology followed in each of the included case reports/series.
This paper presents the results of an innovative pilot experiment on elaborating transformative energy scenarios by using a causal layered analysis (CLA) game.
They are also useful to encourage innovative pilot experiences, to consolidate the flow of information among teachers, as well as to reuse and reinforce teaching methodologies that favour good practices with a European dimension.
While most of its research awards are large-scale grants to established researchers and organizations, the Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Exploration grants are smaller, $100,000 awards for innovative pilot programs on a variety of global health topics.
When MonkeyParking and other startups cropped up to let users sell information about the availability of free parking spaces to others, the city government had already been building dynamic pricing into parking through an innovative pilot program.
The experiments were carried out by comparing the traditional dipping of fruit with an innovative pilot plant process, designated "thin film" (TF), which is designed to reduce fungicide/water mixture concentration.
