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innovationary en · ADJ

Etymology

From innovation + -ary.

Meanings

1. Tending to promote innovation.
   • Today marks the beginning of a wonderful innovationary experiment in education, a whole new instructional dynamic in teaching paleontology. 2011, Roberg Silverberg, The Ultimate Dinosaur, →ISBN:
   • But surely Schumpeter overdid the case and gave it an absolutist note. thus he invariably spoke of the action of trust-promotion as a type-case of the "innovationary act"; correspondingly, the trust promoter's profits were deemed the pure strain of innovationary gain. Trustification was considered so innovationary that it was deemed the main support, besides electrification, for the upswing of the second Kondratieff beginning in 1896. 1991, John Cunningham Wood, Joseph A. Schumpeter: Critical Assessments, →ISBN, page 291:
   • The potential of the third innovationary period to stimulate growth was greatest in the 1960s, when the growth rate of the world economy exceeded 5 per cent. 1982, Hisao Kanamori, Nihon Keizai Kenkyū Sentā, Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, The Path for revitalizing world economy:
   • But the extent to which the transmission of a broader, relational expression of childbirth can be diffused, depends on the relation between the innovationary forces within the existing hospital structure. 1980, Social Biology and Human Affairs - Volumes 45-47:

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