We should explore ways to make us a more amazing species. A more fascinating society. We should embrace our innovations and evolve with them.
By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.
We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.
Participatory democracies. Open economies. Web-based communication. All American innovations to the great conundrums of the globe.
We want to see more sources of alternative finance, from innovations in factoring such as MarketInvoice or in peer-to-peer lending such as Funding Circle which Labour local authorities are now using to support and invest in local businesses.
The Internet, like most successful American innovations, have not thrived because of heavy-handed government regulation.
The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.
Empowering innovations transform something that is complicated and expensive into something that is so much more simple and affordable that a much larger population can enjoy it.
The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.
Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.