This implies a shift from seeing the private sector as a source of enterprise and dynamism to seeing the public and third sectors as a source of initiative, experiment and legitimacy.
As for Mr. Geithner, who became Treasury secretary in 2009, his spokesman, Anthony Coley, said, "Secretary Geithner was an early source of initiative at the Fed to reduce risk and make the financial system more resilient even before 2006".
In a pair of recent interviews and an exchange of e-mail messages, Mr. Geithner defended his record, saying that from very early on, he was "a consistently dark voice about the potential risks ahead, and a principal source of initiatives designed to make the system stronger" before the markets started to collapse.
Generally non-confrontational, ready for paradigm change and fundamentally non-ideological, China, which has regained centrality, is increasingly at the source of initiatives shaping the global agenda.
A "meta-innovation system" has emerged in Brazil, comprising multiple sources of initiative: top-down, bottom-up and lateral.
However, as the state ownership system is reformed and functions change, China is gradually moving towards an 'interactive triple helix model', in which each sphere is relatively independent and interactive with others, as additional sources of initiative are activated.
Since then, the Institute has been the preeminent source of SETI initiatives, which are funded exclusively through private donations.
Stronger economic independence is particularly relevant to big and medium-sized cities. Cities are drivers of economic growth and sources of civic initiatives.
Between 1997 200202 the CISMeF gateway selected health resources using the main criteria established by the Net Scoring initiative (source of information, disclosure, editorial review process, date of last update, and feedback mechanism) in view of the fact that the selection process is mandatory to create a trustworthy health Internet directory.
Social media allows citizens to be the source of ideas, plans and initiatives in an easier way than ever before.
Eric Raymond, president of Open Source Initiative, a group that promotes the free publication of computer programming languages owned by corporations, said real hackers give their names readily while wannabes and malicious types "try to build a mystique through concealment and secrecy".
