Steve Jobs Quotes

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

Aspen's investment in TesoRx will assist in the work being undertaken to bring this product to market and in investing behind TesoRx's pipeline and technology that has the potential to be used for a wide range of different applications.

Science is inextricably linked to our economy. It has been for the last 50 years and it will be for the next 50 years.

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation's S&T strategy.

It's wonderful to see more of my colleagues recognizing the importance of investing in STEM education and scientific research and development.

The old rules may say we can’t protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we’ve always used new technologies - we’ve used science; we’ve used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.

I would say that in general, Cisco is a very strong research and development organization.

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

Israel produces more conceptual products than any other country.

The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they're the most secretive.

What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

Patents have not been a positive force in stimulating innovation at Cisco. Competition has been the motivator; bringing new products to market in a timely manner is critical. Everything we have done to create new products would have been done even if we could not obtain patents

NASA feeds the fuel of the technological furnace of America.

Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation.

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?