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单词 innovation
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Definition of innovation in English:

innovation

noun ɪnəˈveɪʃ(ə)nˌɪnəˈveɪʃ(ə)n
mass noun
  • 1The action or process of innovating.

    innovation is crucial to the continuing success of any organization
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The bureaucrats at the centre consider variation and innovation to be a threat and they resist it.
    • So we are training the workforce of the future and fostering growth and innovation.
    • This is a story about social learning and innovation over very long time-spans.
    • It was the first time in at least five years that the Queen had honoured the city's businesses for innovation.
    • The first step in new drug innovation is to collect large amounts of samples.
    • High levels of social interaction can favour innovation and the exchange of ideas.
    • At the same time we need to adjust our educational system so as to enhance creativity and innovation.
    • It was also evidence that much social innovation now springs out of suburbia.
    • The social psychology of technical innovation is as mysterious as that of any other form of creativity.
    • Scotland has a very proud record for biotech developments and innovation.
    • This process, which includes further innovation, creates a valuable revenue stream.
    • Her ability to bring together innovation and tradition has earned her critical and popular acclaim.
    • As you slowly move in the crowd, you get to know how innovation could be infused into exchange offers.
    • New tax credits will be put in place to encourage innovation and small businesses, Mr Brown said.
    • The Eighties were the decade of innovation and novelty in frozen and processed foods.
    • An alliance allows its partners to speed up the processes of innovation and market expansion.
    • It also relies on efforts to use expertise to promote modernization and innovation.
    • We want business to continue to invest, we want innovation to continue to happen.
    • What Jones has discovered is that we have to work harder and harder to sustain growth through innovation.
    • Through these gambits, business commentators challenge the very concept of innovation.
    Synonyms
    change, alteration, revolution, upheaval, transformation, metamorphosis, reorganization, restructuring, rearrangement, recasting, remodelling, renovation, restyling, variation
    new measures, new methods, new devices, novelty, newness, unconventionality, modernization, modernism
    a break with tradition, a shift of emphasis, a departure, a change of direction
    informal a shake up
    North American informal a shakedown
    humorous transmogrification
    1. 1.1count noun A new method, idea, product, etc.
      technological innovations designed to save energy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For example, we developed every major innovation in the iron and steel making process.
      • Perhaps everything has been invented, everything said, every innovation discovered.
      • He also proposed a theory to handle the economics of technological innovations.
      • We were inundated with new products in a seemingly endless cavalcade of astonishing innovations.
      • Mozart is famed for his musical innovations and the opera included some very difficult music.
      • Then, like now, they simply want to be paid for the innovations of someone else.
      • They can also take examples of good practices and innovations home or to other operations with them.
      • Scary movies in particular tend to lose their edge as their innovations become less than novel.
      • It brought about two lasting innovations in the study of chemistry.
      • He was credited with having pioneered many financial innovations in the capital markets.
      • Any nation with such a result will never catch up with the latest technological innovations.
      • Among the pieces in this show there are some wonderful innovations that redefine function.
      • We should focus on the new designs and innovations that can be developed in the future.
      • He was always open to new ideas and innovations and increasingly his life became the canvas on which he plotted his art.
      • Do you care if they decide what kinds of technological innovations will reach the marketplace?
      • With such beautiful innovations, it can only be a matter of time before the fashion industry comes knocking.
      • Visitors will be able to trace innovations in the design of chairs over the last hundred years and even sit on some of them.
      • When do we suggest that it might be good to slow down a bit and find out who benefits from our innovations and who does not?
      • Take a look back at some of the events, ideas and innovations that brought us here.
      • If they try radical innovations, they might alienate the solid fan base that has sustained them down the decades.

Derivatives

  • innovational

  • adjectiveɪnəˈveɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l
    • It was an innovational approach to solving problems and moving beyond the established and suitable restrictions of common usage.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It fills this role, in part, because it is a general-purpose technology one of a small number of drastic innovations that creates innovational complementarities that increase productivity in a downstream sector.
      • In addition, a glimpse of an innovational approach is given which will revolutionize handling of such compounds in the future.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin innovatio(n-), from the verb innovare (see innovate).

 
 

Definition of innovation in US English:

innovation

nounˌɪnəˈveɪʃ(ə)nˌinəˈvāSH(ə)n
  • 1The action or process of innovating.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • An alliance allows its partners to speed up the processes of innovation and market expansion.
    • So we are training the workforce of the future and fostering growth and innovation.
    • This is a story about social learning and innovation over very long time-spans.
    • What Jones has discovered is that we have to work harder and harder to sustain growth through innovation.
    • The social psychology of technical innovation is as mysterious as that of any other form of creativity.
    • High levels of social interaction can favour innovation and the exchange of ideas.
    • It also relies on efforts to use expertise to promote modernization and innovation.
    • The bureaucrats at the centre consider variation and innovation to be a threat and they resist it.
    • As you slowly move in the crowd, you get to know how innovation could be infused into exchange offers.
    • It was the first time in at least five years that the Queen had honoured the city's businesses for innovation.
    • New tax credits will be put in place to encourage innovation and small businesses, Mr Brown said.
    • This process, which includes further innovation, creates a valuable revenue stream.
    • Scotland has a very proud record for biotech developments and innovation.
    • The first step in new drug innovation is to collect large amounts of samples.
    • The Eighties were the decade of innovation and novelty in frozen and processed foods.
    • Her ability to bring together innovation and tradition has earned her critical and popular acclaim.
    • It was also evidence that much social innovation now springs out of suburbia.
    • Through these gambits, business commentators challenge the very concept of innovation.
    • At the same time we need to adjust our educational system so as to enhance creativity and innovation.
    • We want business to continue to invest, we want innovation to continue to happen.
    Synonyms
    change, alteration, revolution, upheaval, transformation, metamorphosis, reorganization, restructuring, rearrangement, recasting, remodelling, renovation, restyling, variation
    1. 1.1 A new method, idea, product, etc.
      technological innovations designed to save energy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Perhaps everything has been invented, everything said, every innovation discovered.
      • Mozart is famed for his musical innovations and the opera included some very difficult music.
      • Do you care if they decide what kinds of technological innovations will reach the marketplace?
      • For example, we developed every major innovation in the iron and steel making process.
      • Then, like now, they simply want to be paid for the innovations of someone else.
      • Visitors will be able to trace innovations in the design of chairs over the last hundred years and even sit on some of them.
      • When do we suggest that it might be good to slow down a bit and find out who benefits from our innovations and who does not?
      • With such beautiful innovations, it can only be a matter of time before the fashion industry comes knocking.
      • It brought about two lasting innovations in the study of chemistry.
      • He was always open to new ideas and innovations and increasingly his life became the canvas on which he plotted his art.
      • We should focus on the new designs and innovations that can be developed in the future.
      • If they try radical innovations, they might alienate the solid fan base that has sustained them down the decades.
      • We were inundated with new products in a seemingly endless cavalcade of astonishing innovations.
      • Scary movies in particular tend to lose their edge as their innovations become less than novel.
      • He was credited with having pioneered many financial innovations in the capital markets.
      • He also proposed a theory to handle the economics of technological innovations.
      • Any nation with such a result will never catch up with the latest technological innovations.
      • Take a look back at some of the events, ideas and innovations that brought us here.
      • Among the pieces in this show there are some wonderful innovations that redefine function.
      • They can also take examples of good practices and innovations home or to other operations with them.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin innovatio(n-), from the verb innovare (see innovate).

 
 
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