Following the talk, and caught up in the hype, Washington and Silicon Valley poured into cleantech more than $100 billion — but instead of breakthroughs, the industry suffered setbacks, with investors now scaling back financial support.
Instead of achieving a breakthrough, Mr Roh found there was a wall of distrust that had still to be broken down.
Some of the British strategists, on the other hand, argued that instead of seeking a breakthrough on the Germans' impregnable Western Front, the Allies should turn the whole position of the Central Powers either by an offensive through the Balkans or even by a landing on Germany's Baltic coast.
Now, one of the things I have learned in more than twenty years of writing is that the worst thing you can do is to try and ride a bike with the brakes on and so I gave up and had this great breakthrough: instead of trying to solve the problem, I'd do away with it.
Futurist Jeremy Rifkin lays out a vision of "the Third Industrial Revolution" that, through digital connectivity, clean energy and smart transportation all tied together through the "Internet of Things," can lead to breakthrough instead of breakdown.
The majority of patients who experienced a pain flare stressed the need for prevention of this pain flare instead of managing it with breakthrough medication.
The iPhone and the iPad may be aesthetically perfect, but in an otherwise stagnant society their charms can be an invitation to solipsism — holding up mirrors to our vanity, instead of opening windows to breakthroughs more impressive than the latest app.
Breakout Labs is part of Thiel's push to go for genuine technological breakthroughs instead of the low-hanging fruit in the consumer web space that many other investors seem to be attracted to.
The two-year fellowship, for applicants under age 20, was started last year by Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley investor who believes more young people should be chasing breakthrough technologies instead of wasting their time and money in college.
Smart Planet: Novogratz founded Acumen Fund in 2001 based on a novel idea: help the poor by investing in social enterprises, emerging leaders and breakthrough ideas instead of donated goods and services.
