"We will further implement the military-civilian integration strategy, and speed up efforts to make innovations in defense-related science and technology," he added.
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Department stores, in particular, have struggled to recapture foot traffic and to make innovations as they lose sales to Amazon and other online sellers.
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They encourage their teachers to make innovations in pedagogy, to improve their own performance and that of their colleagues, and to pursue professional development that leads to stronger education practice.
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For example, while the telephone was initially invented as an extension of the telegraph, with a focus on business, the telephone quickly became a popular way for people to chat socially. Telephone companies then began to make innovations to enhance social interactions.
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More secure control of the land allowed the owners to make innovations that improved their yields. Other husbandmen rented property they "share cropped" with the land owners. Many of these enclosures were accomplished by acts of Parliament in the 16th and 17th centuries. The process of enclosing property accelerated in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Apart from Chinese government’s goal of upgrading China into a "powerful industrial country", the "Internet Plus" strategy will, most importantly, produce new economic forms and create suitable environment for the general public to make innovations or start their own business. Moreover, according to the official statement, the plan exerts a profound influence on adapting to information economy, rebuilding innovation system, intriguing creativity, cultivating emerging industry and public service pattern.
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Dietrich's interest in controversy extends to controversial scientists as well, most notably the geneticist Richard Goldschmidt, who was branded a scientific heretic for his views on the gene, macroevolution, and hopeful monsters. Together with Oren Harman, Dietrich has edited a trilogy of books concerning biologists. The first, Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (Yale University Press, 2008) featured essays on iconoclastic biologists. The second, Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology (University of Chicago Press, 2013), examined the conditions that allowed scientists trained outside of biology to make innovations within biology.
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His talent was not so much to make innovations, but rather to publicise and explain the workings of the various systems. He was particularly proficient at recovering calendar dates from well-worn and weathered inscriptions, owing to his great familiarity with the various glyphic styles of the tzolk'in, haab' and Long Count elements. Yet in his focus on calendric details, he would often overlook or even neglect the documentation of other non-calendric aspects of the Maya script; the comprehensiveness of some of his publications suffered much as a result. Some leading figures from a later generation of Mayanists would come to regard his publications as being inferior in detail and scope to that of his predecessors, such as Teoberto Maler and Alfred Maudslay — poorer quality reproductions, omitted texts, sometimes inaccurate drawings.
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