[ noun ] someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art <noun.person>
Innovator \In"no*va`tor\, n. [Cf. F. innovateur.] One who innovates. --Shak.
The Merc's image as the leading innovator among U.S. exchanges could also be tarnished if Globex's expansion is hamstrung for months by Japanese officials.
"What they want to do is become an innovator."
"The generics left on the marketplace could be the generics made by the innovator houses," says Diane Giaquinta, director of pharmacy and vision at Blue Cross of California.
Mr. Hoglund is a popular personable innovator who abolished the executive dining room at BOC headquarters 18 months ago.
In the minds of investors, Big Blue is no longer a high-flying innovator like U.S. Surgical but a company exposed to economic and product cycles, like Boeing.
"What this court has said is that if you are an innovator in a field, the court will protect your right to commercialize your invention," said a spokeswoman.
Fuller's career as an inventor _ or innovator, as he prefers to be called _ began when the drums he made from chlorine cans won second prize at a third grade school fair.
In her country, however, she is an innovator.
The CBOT's interest in running a spot market in the allowances derives from an idea hatched by exchange director Richard L. Sandor, a longtime futures industry innovator, who has proposed trading futures contracts based on the allowances.
He was an innovator.
For most of his career, Mr. Barthelme has deservedly enjoyed the reputation of a literary innovator.
The traditional American businessman was primarily a producer, a product innovator.
But while Boesky's wide legacy is that of swindler, Milken is regarded by many as a brilliant innovator who created a new form of financing that changed the way Wall Street and corporate America operate, for better or worse.