The company needs better algorithms; it needs breakthrough techniques like singular value decomposition, with the brilliant but inscrutable insights it enables.
We'll need breakthroughs in energy storage, as well as energy generation.
Like Giuliani, Christie won't let conventional political wisdom deter him from his course, and he has the political savvy and persistence to make the needed breakthroughs.
But now, resources are becoming more scarce, and we need breakthroughs that will help make more efficient use of whatever we already have at hand.
At a time when we will need breakthroughs in various kinds of vaccines to combat bio-terrorism, the government should take care to create a hospitable environment for risky research.
Designing a better mousetrap that can catch quantities of lionfish, even in deep water, would be the needed breakthrough.
But the cost would probably not be so high that they would need breakthrough technologies anytime soon, Mr. Greenstone said.
As Robin Francis, research and development manager at the Carbon Trust, says: "A great deal of innovative work is being done but we need breakthrough technology to reduce emissions".
They need breakthrough technologies that can compete on a grand scale with coal and oil — the kind China is now pursuing and a major research program in this country could, too.
