In his State of the Union, where he said that education is "our generation's Sputnik moment," the President invokes the word "innovation" nine times.

I believe that this truly is our "Sputnik moment."

This is our generation's Sputnik moment.

A challenge to pursue innovation in "our generations' Sputnik moment."

The whole country has been in denial about mathematics, and now we're sort of at a second Sputnik moment.

Not quite Britain's "Sputnik moment" of truth, as President Obama put it in the US context during his state of the union speech last night.

This was seen by many as another Sputnik moment or a second Sputnik.

With no tax increases in the offing and the government running a $1.5-trillion deficit, a new "Sputnik moment" means adding to the mountain of debt.

President Obama even compared these new technologies to the space race and called it our generation's Sputnik moment.

He referred to innovation as 'our generation's Sputnik moment'.