Innovation requires processes of adaptation, anticipation and openness to change.

Trade and economic openness, financial stability and regulation, energy security, climate change, and many other issues confront the world collectively.

American environmental attitudes toward climate change or genetic modification of food bring similar criticism. More subtly, America's openness to immigration both enriches and changes American culture.

China s Aborted Openness

The Roots of German Openness

Can you quantify your openness?

Guatemala has taken various steps to increase its openness to trade.

Openness is a commitment to a certain set of values.

President Barack Obama is presumably sympathetic to openness in trade.

Barack Obama also showed genuine respect and openness to Russia.

Diversity is a better guarantee of openness than even merit, and openness is the real hallmark of a liberal order.

Just as the poets and writers described, we're going to be able to see, I think, that wondrous openness, utter and complete openness, of the mind of a child.

Furthermore, increased openness and market integration, driven by rapid technological change, is exacerbating divisions within and among societies. Those who miss the globalization train at the start often are unable to catch up later.

For the true selves of companies to come through, openness is paramount, but radical openness is not a solution, because when everything is open, nothing is open.

Sami preyed on Layla's openness and vulnerability.

But how much openness is too much?

That openness and the perceived defencelessness in the face of change create a natural reaction of rejection, distrust and even fear in people, and lead to attempts to define and protect their identity through exclusion and separation.

More subtly, America's openness to immigration both enriches and changes American culture.

Diplomats require openness and imagination in order to carry out their responsibilities.

Only openness and accountability can reverse this trend.

We can t save cyberspace by destroying its openness.

This openness, this forcing openness, is key, and if it wasn't entirely transparent already, I should be open I've got a completely transparent agenda.

So here's the lessons of openness that I think we need to learn.

This greater openness will enable the Council better to perform its Charter responsibilities.

And this openness is the beginning of exploratory play.

To gain from trade openness, you have to ensure that complementary policies are in place.

Openness is great, and a strategy I normally applaud no single vendor is likely to be the best, so openness allows a broad range of suppliers to compete and differentiate so the best can emerge.

On the contrary, the Dutch pride themselves on their openness and hospitality to foreigners.

Harbin, for example, prides itself on its history of tolerance and openness to foreigners.

Clinton s openness to new approaches, and her early trip to Beijing, provides an incomparable opportunity for Chinese leaders to help make of the fight against global climate change, which is perhaps the most important challenge to confront the world in our time, a common odyssey.

But openness brings risks, many unanticipated and most under managed.

By reforming its educational system and giving its citizens access to global sources of information, the country could emerge as a leader of change in post Soviet Central Asia, setting an example of openness for other closed societies, including North Korea.

Xenophobia is an illiberal response to immigration from the right, but multiculturalism represents much the same thing from the left. Many multicultural theorists, although committed to openness toward immigrants, are not committed to the openness of immigrants to their new home.

The development of civil societies, economic growth, and openness to the world are equally important.

Their response could, in turn, call into question that very openness.

Openness and effectiveness should be interrelated objectives of the Security Council.

Its three pronged approach of containment, deterrence, and openness to negotiation is exactly the right course to pursue.

Yet it will be up to the leadership in the region to overcome obstacles to openness and co operation.

NEW YORK Economists generally agree on the advantages of openness in trade.

But capital controls are not the only variable that determines financial openness.

Considerable social conflict could become unavoidable, threatening political support for economic openness.

The link between trade openness and economic prosperity is strong and suggestive.

Decision makers will be wary of openness even with their closest staff.

Hence, openness versus intellectual property push in one direction or the other.

This policy gave Unilever the highest score on openness to small farmers, with a rating of fair.