0 using new methods or ideas: --
She was an imaginative and innovative manager.
1 (of ideas and methods) new and different: --
Gwen introduced a number of innovative solutions.
2 using new ideas or methods: --
The group aims to reduce the risks and increase the chances of innovatory, technology-based start-ups making it in the big commercial world.
innovative ideas/products/programmes Big companies are always looking for innovative products that can't be easily copied.
In recent years, the company has relied more on creative repackaging than on innovative design.
This promises to be an exciting and innovative conference, which integrates sessions for postgraduate students, within and alongside the conference proper.
In changes from below, women tend to use higher proportions of innovative forms (actuation) (2001:293).
Radically innovative forms do exist, but these are exactly the opposite of progressive rock in that old, well-established technology is used in new ways.
They see this reformulation as a historical possibility already underway in innovative grassroots movements and experiments.
Is the experientially unfamiliar a major innovative contribution to theatre?
Both are femaledominated patterns, with women leading in the move toward innovative variants.
The innovative variants are used by the younger non-professional speakers, especially females, who use more of the open schwa-like pronunciations.
Imitation has tended to be dismissed as a rather low-grade activity having, almost by definition, no innovative content, but this is wrong.