The Bluetooth Innovation World Cup, a marketing initiative of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group ( SIG ), is an international competition encouraging the development of innovations for applications leveraging the Bluetooth low energy wireless technology in sports, fitness and health care products.

The first international Bluetooth Innovation World Cup 2009 drew more than 250 international entries, including Nokia, Freescale Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, Nordic Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics and Brunel.

Bluetooth Innovation World Cup 2010

The Bluetooth SIG announced the start of the second Innovation World Cup on 1 June 2010, with a focus on applications for the sports & fitness, health care, and home information and control markets.

The high data speeds of UMTS are now most often utilised for Internet access: experience in Japan and elsewhere has shown that user demand for video calls is not high, and telco-provided audio / video content has declined in popularity in favour of high-speed access to the World Wide Web — either directly on a handset or connected to a computer via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Infrared or USB.

For the 2010 model year, in which U. S. News & World Report ranked it as the number one affordable large SUV, the Suburban will add a new premium interior package that includes tri-zone climate control and handy features like Bluetooth and rear audio controls.

Bluetooth Innovator of the Year 2009

On February 8, 2010, Edward Sazonov, Physical Activity Innovations LLC, was awarded the title of Bluetooth Innovator of the Year for 2009.

* 2009 In January, NFC Forum released Peer-to-Peer standards to transfer contact, URL, initiate Bluetooth, etc.

For 2009 the Lucerne got some small upgrades, including a new base engine, the 3. 9 L LZ9 V6, and Bluetooth phone connectivity, and XM NavTraffic.

In October 2009, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group has dropped development of UWB as part of the alternative MAC / PHY, Bluetooth 3. 0 / High Speed solution.

For the 2009 model year, all Rio and Rio5 trims received standard Sirius Satellite Radio ( complimentary for three months ) and radios with USB port & auxiliary jack, the auxiliary jack substituting for a Bluetooth mobile phone connection for devices with an earphone jack, e. g., the iPhone.

In the 2009 – 2010 Iranian election protests, police forces used cellphone and Bluetooth jammers.

It was announced and sold for the first time on August 2, 2005, and a Bluetooth version was available from 2006 to 2009.

The 2009 model featured a new grille, new 17 inch 10-spoke alloy wheels, blue back lit gauges and dashboard lighting ( vs. the previous green ), dark brown wood grain accents and available hands free Bluetooth phone capability.

Agricultural Innovation in the Early Islamic World, Cambridge University Press.

User-Driven Innovation: The World ’ s First Business Computer.

* Watson, Andrew M. Agricultural Innovation in the Early Islamic World: The Diffusion of Crops and Farming Techniques, 700 – 1100.

The school also operates a number of prominent research centers, including: the Research Center for Contemporary Management, the Research Center for Technological Innovation, the National Entrepreneurship Research Center, the China Center for Financial Research, the National Center for Economic Research, the China Retail Research Center, the China Business Research Center, the Center for China in the World Economy, the Research Center for Contemporary Management and Technological Innovation, and the China Insurance and Risk Management Research Center.

Other indexes are the Innovations Indikator, Innovation Union Scoreboard, EIU Innovation Ranking, BCG International Innovation Index, Global Competitiveness Report, World Competitiveness Scoreboard, ITIF Index.

* New Industrial and Innovation Policy, The World Bank Institute

* World Innovation Summit for Education, a global forum based in Doha, Qatar

* Caiger-Smith, Alan, Lustre Pottery: Technique, Tradition and Innovation in Islam and the Western World ( Faber and Faber, 1985 ) ISBN 0-571-13507-2

* Priority Medicines for Europe and the World Project " A Public Health Approach to Innovation "-WHO

Jellicoe was a member of the Onassis International Prizes Committee ( 1983 – 1992 ); a vice-president of The European-Atlantic Group and of the Byron Society ; he was on the board of the Hellenic College London ; patron of the City of Southampton Society ; a patron of the Greek Archaeological Committee ( UK ); one of five patrons of The Community Foundation for Wiltshire and Swindon ; a director of The Landscape Foundation ( now dormant ); patron of Friends of The Royal Hospital School ; patron of the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology ; a member of the World Innovation Fund ( WIF ) and an associate member of INEED.

He also received a " Most Innovative People Award ," for Social Innovation, at the World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship ( WSIE ) in 2008.

In 2010 Turok received a prize from the World Innovation Summit for Education in Qatar and an award from the South African Mathematical Society.

She is a member of the Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology and of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Transportation.

Systems of Innovation are frameworks for understanding innovation which have become popular particularly among policy makers and innovation researchers first in Europe, but now anywhere in the world as in the 90's the World Bank and other UN affiliated institutions accepted.

WIT stands for World Innovation Technologies.

In 2004, a team led by Religa obtained a prestigious Brussels Eureka award at the World Exhibition of Innovation, Research and Technology for developing an implantable pump for a pneumatic heart assistance system.

The students have been awarded on Challenge Cup National College Students Science and Technology Innovation Undertaking Starting Project Contest and College Students Social Practice Activity time after time.

The Gates Hillman Complex, opened for occupancy on August 11, 2009, sits on a site on the university's West Campus, surrounded by Cyert Hall, the Purnell Center for the Arts, Doherty Hall, Newell-Simon Hall, Smith Hall, Hamburg Hall and the Robert Mehrabian Collaborative Innovation Center.

He received the National Medal in Technology and Innovation for this invention in 2009.

Analytically, the city was ranked 1st globally for a culture of innovation in 2007 and 2008, and 2nd globally after Boston in 2009 from 256 cities on an analysis of 162 indicators in the Innovation Cities Index on a 3-factor score covering culture, infrastructure and markets.

In September 2009, Warnock and Geschke were chosen to receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, one of the nation's highest honors bestowed on scientists, engineers and inventors.

Since June 2009, the sector is overseen by the new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, although some parts ( such as education and training for 14-19 year olds ) fall within the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

In 2009, the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills was merged into the existing department and the post became Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.

The ministerial office of the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills was, in late 2009, amalgamated into the new ministerial office of the resurgent politician, Peter Mandelson, ennobled as Lord Mandelson as the newly created Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills-itself an amalgamation of the responsibilities of the Secretaries of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and Innovation, Universities and Skills-the Secretary of State has remit over Higher Education policy as well as British business and enterprise.

She was nominated by the Taoiseach Brian Cowen to become Ireland's European Commissioner in November 2009 and was subsequently allocated the Research, Innovation and Science portfolio.

Jeddah was independently ranked 4th in the Africa / Mid-East region in terms of innovation in 2009 in the Innovation Cities Index.

The Center for Civic Innovation regularly publishes research reports and bulletins on the topics of prisoner re-entry, pension reform, public housing, infrastructure, school choice, and policing, and manages an online database of urban policy resources, Cities on a Hill, launched in November 2009.

He has previously served in the Cabinet, as Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills from 2007 to 2009, and then as the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2009 to 2010.

* 2007 – 2009: Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills

In the June 2009 reshuffle Winterton was moved to Minister of State for Regional Economic Development and Co-ordination at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Communities and Local Government and in that role was invited to attend cabinet when her responsibility was on the agenda.

In June 2009 the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills was abolished and merged with the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform to form the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Business and Regulatory Reform in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from 2009 until Labour's defeat at the 2010 General Election.

He then entered Government as a minister for the first time in the June 2009 reshuffle, becoming Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Business and Regulatory Reform in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and held that post until the Labour government left office in May 2010.

Luis Suarez-Villa, in his 2009 book Technocapitalism: A Critical Perspective on Technological Innovation and Corporatism argues that it is a new version of capitalism that generates new forms of corporate organization designed to exploit intangibles such as creativity and new knowledge.

In the June 2009 reshuffle Pearson retained his role at the Treasury but lost his business role as the department was merged to create the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.