Strauss however sees this also as a sign of major innovation in Machiavelli, because classical materialists did not share the Socratic regard for political life, while Machiavelli clearly did.

This was primarily due to the increased usage of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser software, and partly because the Netscape Corporation ( later purchased by AOL ) did not sustain Netscape Navigator's technical innovation after the late 1990s.

This is a modern innovation ; pre-modern Arabic did not use punctuation.

However, he chose to fix the atomic weight of oxygen as 100, an innovation that did not catch on.

While Elizabethan England is not thought of as an age of technological innovation, some progress did occur.

For all his innovation, Bitzer did not survive the industry's transition to sound, and in 1944 he suffered a heart attack and died in Hollywood in relative obscurity.

Whatever its motivation, the fact remains that the tactic did represent an innovation and was undoubtedly highly effective.

These reasons include: the wiping of the face is an innovation because there are no authentic hadiths which state that Muhammad ever did it or ordered his followers to do it.

Sporck's strategy of outsourcing sales to external sources meant National Semiconductor did not have sufficient or responsive resources to respond to requests from innovators, inventors and academic research-which would have been helpful in the technological innovation boom of the 1980s.

Lithuanian music: The Soviet Union had sponsored some music festivals, such as the Dainu Sventes, but did not allow for much lyrical or musical innovation, and kept all songwriters from experimenting with politically aware and dissident lyrics.

Here, too, the innovation of placing the female roles in the hands of women was introduced, which innovation did not become general until during the seventeenth century.

The fact that it did spread seems to many scholars to indicate that the tri-gradal system was not so much innovation, as the re-organisation of pre-existing material.

Although his rigid, top-down controls made it possible to hold variation in work activities down to very low levels, his approach did not respond well to uncertain, dynamic business conditions ; they responded particularly badly to the need for new product innovation.

Contrary to popular belief, Dom Pérignon did not introduce blending to Champagne wines but rather the innovation of blending the grapes prior to sending them to press.

If Athos did find out about that innovation it would completely emancipate the planet from its last remaining dependency on the rest of humanity.

He also recognised the innovation of drop tanks to extend the range of aircraft as well as the need for specialised tactics for escorting bomber fleets ; Galland did not subscribe to the prevailing idea in the Luftwaffe ( and RAF ) that the bomber " would always get through " ( alone ).

From 1921 to 1959 the regime at the college changed very little: tight central control by SED did not encourage innovation.

Only in the 1970s did the full breadth and innovation of his scholarship begin to be more widely appreciated.

Reportedly, " although he lived in an age when writers were carried away by literary experiments, Kuprin did not seek innovation and wrote only about the things he himself had experienced and his heroes are the next generation after Chekhov's pessimists.

Although the McCormick reaper was a revolutionary innovation for the harvesting of crops, it did not experience mainstream success and acceptance until at least 20 years after it was patented by Cyrus McCormick.

While not a technical innovation ( the keyed trumpet was already known ), it did become extremely popular in the burgeoning brass band tradition and inspired a whole family of instruments, the ophicleides.

Instead, the former shared innovation became the Centum Satem isogloss, which did not have to conform to language boundaries or represent any major change of language.

During an early trial when a partial installation was made, one disgruntled patron wrote to The Times newspaper declaring it to be " a very ghastly and unpleasant innovation ".

Some of the common features included Cennick's innovation of hymns sung as a dialogue, as well as Newton, a former slave trader who converted after reading On the Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis, who wrote more than two hundred hymns that drew on his own experiences wrestling with sin, and proved extremely popular.

Serota wrote to the Stuckists, rejecting this on the grounds that the work was not of " sufficient quality in terms of accomplishment, innovation or originality of thought to warrant preservation in perpetuity in the national collection ", and was accused of " snubbing one of Britain ’ s foremost collections ".

His former blog, Lunch Over IP, which he wrote from 2005 to 2008 ( still available online as an archive ) won him a national " Golden Mouse " award in 2006 for the best Swiss theme blog, while his articles on technology and innovation in L ' Hebdo were awarded in 1995 the Swiss prize for technology journalism.

When his friend Zouch campaigned against repeal Fitzwilliam wrote to him on 28 April 1791 that repeal could only be opposed on " an undeviating adherence to that which is — a principle to which I feel a strong attachment in most cases, because alteration and innovation is so seldom proposed to me, without a great alloy of experiment and uncertainty " but that Dissenters circumvented the Act and thus in practice the Church of England gained nothing from it but the Dissenters ' hostility.

Fitzwilliam wrote to Adair on 12 September that he would support the government on the war and " on all occasions where they support establishment against innovation, monarchy and aristocracy against the inroads of sans-culottism ; but beyond these points I profess no friendship or goodwill towards an administration from which I have received such gross ill-treatment ".

This offer was rejected by Serota, who wrote, " the works in question have been reviewed by our curators and presented to the Board of Trustees ... We do not feel that the work is of sufficient quality in terms of accomplishment, innovation or originality of thought to warrant preservation in perpetuity in the national collection.

Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen, a prominent modern-day scholar, wrote: " And there is no such thing in Islaam as bid ’ ah hasanah ( good innovation ).

Among Peter Drucker's early influences was the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter, a friend of his father ’ s, who impressed upon Drucker the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Fitzwilliam said he was " the inveterate enemy of all innovation " and " though a friend to popular privileges on ordinary occasions, and having no dislike to the check on public men by popular discussion ... I had rather see a bad Minister go uncorrected than a good constitution stabbed in its vitals ".

As the 1960s progressed and the musical climate became more receptive to his kind of whimsical innovation, Haack's friend, collaborator, and business manager Chris Kachulis found mainstream applications for his music.

His friend and boss Charlie Rogers arranges for Frank to test Innobotics ' latest robotic innovation — the " perfect woman ".

The jagati which is in unity with the rest of the temple follows a star-shaped design and the walls of the temple follow a zig-zag pattern, a Hoysala innovation.

Bentham follows these statements with explanations on how antiquity, religion, reproach of innovation, metaphor, fiction, fancy, antipathy and sympathy, begging the question, and imaginary law are not justification for the creation of legislature.

The venture capital industry follows the concept of “ high risk, high return ” Innovative entrepreneurship, knowledge based ideas and human capital intensive enterprises have taken the front seat as venture capitalists invest in risky finance to encourage innovation.

A national system of innovation has been defined as follows:

A national system of innovation has been defined as follows:

The diffusion of a technology generally follows an S-shaped curve as early versions of technology are rather unsuccessful, followed by a period of successful innovation with high levels of adoption, and finally a dropping off in adoption as a technology reaches its maximum potential in a market.

The Al-Andalus Ensemble follows the model of Al-Andalus in composition and performance, drawing on many cultures and traditions to present the suggestion of intercultural peace and artistic innovation.