adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an innovative scheme (= using new ideas )
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an innovative scheme to help the unemployed get back to work
original/innovative (= no one has thought of it before )
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The company is looking for people who can come up with original ideas.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
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Although not yet in clinical use there is now some highly innovative potential in the treatment of disease.
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Slacker is very funny indeed and highly innovative in its use of roving camera and juxtaposing various disparate conversations.
more
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Much of this artistic creativity was more innovative than before.
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Try to come up with something more innovative and stimulating.
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Mission-driven organizations are more innovative than rule-driven organizations.
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There is no evidence that big drug firms are any more innovative than their smaller peers.
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Third, decentralized institutions are far more innovative than centralized institutions.
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Now we have one of the world's more innovative cultures.
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This is milk float technology - it could have been more innovative .
most
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One of the most innovative systems is that found in the optical mouse used with the Xerox Star business computer.
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Perhaps the most innovative feature of the ship involves food.
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Such are the mysteries and such is the music which made Detroit techno the most innovative musical event of the last decade.
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Perhaps the most innovative aspect of the sentimental comedy is that it represented a new form of tragi-comedy.
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The sound isn't the most innovative ever, and the influence of Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5 is obvious.
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One can be most innovative here.
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Pisanello is at his most innovative in his drawings, as is also Jacopo Bellini.
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One of the country's most innovative printmakers has brought the spectrum of artistic endeavor to the Old Pueblo.
very
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The programme is very innovative and interesting but funny at the same time.
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On the face of it, this plan of campaign did not seem very innovative .
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Wonderful stuff, and very innovative for its time.
■ NOUN
activity
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The second pilot investigation is concerned with the innovative activities of small firms.
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We didn't anticipate, though, the scale of this innovative activity .
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Finally, not all feedbacks from output markets have a deleterious effect on innovative activity .
approach
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A couple of early speeches suggested that he might marry innovative approaches with a commitment to U.S. leadership.
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In Chapter Seven, we will discuss the innovative approach he and his colleagues followed.
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To succeed in such an environment requires an innovative approach to business.
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Grammar Dictation offers an innovative approach to the study of grammar in the language classroom.
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The innovative approach cost only a small amount more, with no increase in price to the customer.
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Both Johansson and Reddy reached their conclusions by using a simple, yet innovative approach .
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He spent seven years furthering his understanding of head protection systems before coming up with his own innovative approach .
idea
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Unfortunately, most of these useful and innovative ideas go to waste without investigation.
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The ship has some innovative ideas in entertaining as well.
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Machine knitting can convert innovative ideas into wearable artwork.
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Exposure during his or her career to innovative ideas and / or tactics.
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Educated privately at her homes at Parkwern and Hendrefoilan she inherited a long family tradition of unorthodox and innovative ideas .
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And then when the graduates from that process come up with the goods, invest in their innovative ideas .
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Labour needs to match its commitment to spending with innovative ideas about service delivery, financing and management.
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Many of their innovative ideas lost money and failed to win acceptance by customers.
product
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An innovative product embodying new technology meets new user needs and sells on performance.
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Automakers also are demanding high-quality and innovative products and shorter design and delivery times, industry experts said.
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Brand A is an innovative product concept which will make life very much easier for all slimmers.
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Brand of the Year was awarded for our long term policy of providing modern stores and innovative products while retaining traditional values.
project
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Holt features the place of matrix structures and venture teams in organizing innovative projects .
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Throughout the year, a number of innovative projects , programmes and initiatives were formulated and delivered.
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This is an innovative project , aimed at combining the sociology of science with science policy analysis at the national level.
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Due to the great variety of approaches for organizing innovative projects , it is difficult to classify them.
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Quadrant 2 is an area in which innovative projects frequently end up, and it is risky.
scheme
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As already stated, many innovative schemes appeared to be in operation, but there was very little evaluation.
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Some innovative schemes have been proposed.
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He who pays the piper ... Such innovative schemes are not confined to the United States.
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It also funds innovative schemes to provide secure homes for young and old.
solution
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Magically, the two most obvious options are Flight and Become Ethereal, although other innovative solutions are possible.
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They might have entered competitions sponsored by local companies to provide innovative solutions to real-world problems.
technology
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Only innovative technology can achieve such a pace of construction, which the Soviets say is the fastest in the world.
ways
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This is despite considerable efforts to create innovative ways of developing teacher training in the post-independence period.
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But two companies are creating a stir with their innovative ways of delivering that information.
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Buying groups, marketing schemes and innovative ways of pooling farm resources are all developing.
work
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Indeed the Faculty encourages interdisciplinary activity and recognises that much innovative work has derived from the intellectual stimulus of multidisciplinary study.
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It was almost inevitable that this would have a negative effect on any innovative work .
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In July Eigen &038; Art in Berlin presents a cross-section of innovative work by young, international artists.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an innovative young man
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The city has introduced an innovative system of traffic control.
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The idea for the programme 'Big Brother' was highly innovative .
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When it was first introduced, the electric car was described as one of the ten most innovative products of the year.