Now its representatives in Washington act like a shadow group dedicated to obstructing innovation and progress.
The purpose of the present study was to explore how healthcare innovators of process-based initiatives perceived and made sense of factors that either facilitated or obstructed the innovation implementation and diffusion.
Different educational backgrounds, organisational roles, and diverse worldviews resulted in different priorities, which could delay or obstruct the spread of innovation.
By interviewing key organisational representatives who had developed and established a range of healthcare service innovations from a variety of healthcare sectors we attempted to understand the factors obstructing or facilitating the innovation implementation and diffusion.
This so-called "evergreening" effect could not only prompt anticompetitive practices, but also discourage innovation by permanently obstructing access to new technologies or by charging large sums of money for access to their patents, thus making overall production processes even more costly and inefficient (Stiglitz 2006, Ch. 4).
Meanwhile, federal legislation must not obstruct free market ideals of competitive innovation and informed consumption.
Many years of field experience in the Americas and Asia have shown GM crops to be safe, but, Mr Ridley rightly complains, the Luddites of the green and organic movements continue to obstruct progress.The progress (and occasional retardation) of innovation is the central theme of Mr Ridley's sweeping work.
The unprecedented regulatory power the Obama Administration imposed on the internet is smothering innovation, damaging the American economy and obstructing job creation.
Obviously innovation of medical curricula (including transformation from non-integrated to integrated curricula) may be obstructed by lack of financial resources.
