innovator

innovate | American Dictionary

innovate
verb[ I ]
us/ˈɪn·əˌveɪt/
to introduce changes and new ideas:
The fashion industry is always desperate to innovate.

innovator

noun[ C ]us/ˈɪn·əˌveɪ·t̬ər/
A fearless innovator, Ives liked to play music simultaneously in different meters and keys.

innovate | Business English

innovate
verb[ I ]
/ˈɪnəveɪt/ukus
to develop a new design, product, idea, etc.:
The market leader's proven ability to innovate provides a key attraction for shareholders.

Examples of innovate

innovate
The result was the production of satisfactory and high quality works, extremely innovating and incisive in some instances.
Many of these improvements were carried out on the home farm, but encouragement to innovate on tenant farms can also be seen.
They innovated words which are historical evidence of the lessons they learned.
In doing so, the students drew from and innovated with the existing repertoire of collective action.
Above all, this proposal aims to correct the allocative inefficiencies of the existing patent system, while preserving the dynamic incentives to innovate.
More autonomous agencies can innovate and shape policy direction on their own while less autonomous agencies are more dependent on their political superiors.
But it also sets up limits that the creative mind must be able to break in order to innovate.
Early movement activity drew upon and innovated with traditional repertoire staples such as the round table discussion, the march, and the public pronouncement.
There must be a more concerted effort to plan strategically for the future, to innovate, to share rather than harbour professional and commercial information.
Inherent in the traditional patent system is a tension between the incentive to innovate and far-reaching access.
Frequently businessmen made conscious decisions not to diversify or innovate because innovation would have come into conflict with these values.
Universities, however, have enough autonomy to innovate and to change towards the dissemination of much more open and critical approaches in their programmes and courses.
This is not a work of explicit argument over science or politics, or one that innovates with new primary materials.
It must be the case that the common patterns either are innovated more often, or survive better from generation to generation.
The family can even take credit for innovating the game of one-day cricket some 50 years before it was formally launched in world cricket.
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