The scientists trying to eradicate diseases such as guinea worm; the volunteers helping refugees; the food innovators finding new ways to feed the world; the visionaries who reject conventional wisdom and come up with different ways of doing old things.
It was only after interviewing several Silicon Valley innovators and finding that they had autistic children that his curiosity was piqued.
In other corners of the energy efficiency world, innovators are finding new ways to get around some of the traditional barriers to saving energy.
Throughout the country, public innovators are finding one another and working together.
By the same logic, if we want to join the Chinese and other innovators in finding solutions to our clean energy and infrastructure challenges we need to wake up before we sleep through the Green Revolution.
How do innovators find it?
Individuals and organizations across the nation are working to connect and empower a new generation of innovators who are finding their footing alongside startups and experimental endeavors.
And innovative firms are finding it ever harder to get funding: 57% of innovators had trouble obtaining finance in 2012, up from 38% in 2007.
Ms. Hastreiter, who has spent a good portion of her career inconveniencing herself in the service of finding eccentric innovators, said she sought designers "who were indie but didn't really have a hype factor".
Biden has always been an innovator when it comes to finding new reasons to put people in prison, and for longer periods of time.
This does not mean tariffs, which protect all domestic companies to the same extent; rather, it implies finding ways to help innovators against domestic imitators.
