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Innovation is key to progress and nowadays we can’t talk about progress without considering sustainability. So when I think about innovation I expect it to be functional in order to accelerate growth in a sustainable way whether it is social sustainability, environmental or building a sustainable and scalable healthcare ecosystem. Some actions might include allocating more capital toR&Dand infrastructure, as well as implementing sound regulations to facilitate the transformation of global value chains. As the world leader in serving science, we at Thermo Fisher Scientific spend more than $700 million a year to create innovation that enables our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. I believe pursuing sustainability will be a key area of growth in the future and we are seeing it today already with renewable energies, healthcare, the sharing economy and so forth.