The University of Illinois

The University of Illinois
Author: Frederick E Hoxie
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 967
Release: 2017-02-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 025209932X

The founding of the university in 1867 created a unique community in what had been a prairie. Within a few years, this creative mix of teachers and scholars produced innovations in agriculture, engineering and the arts that challenged old ideas and stimulated dynamic new industries. Projects ranging from the Mosaic web browser to the discovery of Archaea and pioneering triumphs in women's education and wheelchair accessibility have helped shape the university's mission into a double helix of innovation and real-world change. These essays explore the university's celebrated accomplishments and historic legacy, candidly assessing both its successes and its setbacks. Experts and students tell the eye-opening stories of campus legends and overlooked game-changers, of astonishing technical and social invention, of incubators of progress as diverse as the Beckman Institute and Ebertfest. Contributors: James R. Barrett, George O. Batzli, Claire Benjamin, Jeffrey D. Brawn, Jimena Canales, Stephanie A. Dick, Poshek Fu, Marcelo H. Garcia, Lillian Hoddeson, Harry Liebersohn, Claudia Lutz, Kathleen Mapes, Vicki McKinney, Elisa Miller, Robert Michael Morrissey, Bryan E. Norwood, Elizabeth H. Pleck, Leslie J. Reagan, Susan M. Rigdon, David Rosenboom, Katherine Skwarczek, Winton U. Solberg, Carol Spindel, William F. Tracy, and Joy Ann Williamson-Lott.

Innovation Discovery: Network Analysis Of Research And Invention Activity For Technology Management

Innovation Discovery: Network Analysis Of Research And Invention Activity For Technology Management
Author: Tugrul U Daim
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1786344076

The use of bibliometrics for the analysis of technology management is on the rise in our increasingly technological societies. Many are using these tools to document or record the rise of various technologies, making it necessary to take stock of the value and application of scientometric methods and their measures.Innovation Discovery shows the current state of play within the field of management of technology, and discusses how we can use networks to explore, understand and generate theory around the innovation process. It looks at the different streams of analysis used to understand bibliometric data, and presents alternative and novel ways of applying these techniques.Written as a comprehensive review of approaches by leading researchers in the field, this book is suitable for graduate and post-graduate students and researches looking to expand their knowledge and embark on further investigations in technology management.

Innovation under the Radar

Innovation under the Radar
Author: Xiaolan Fu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2020-12-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107183103

The first systematic and comprehensive analysis of innovation in Africa based on mixed methods and dedicated firm-level, multi-country, multi-year survey data. For researchers, graduate students and policy makers in the fields of innovation studies, African business, international business, and development studies.

Innovation under Uncertainty

Innovation under Uncertainty
Author: Valentina Bosetti
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2015-02-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1782546472

Innovation under Uncertainty presents original research and insights on innovation in carbon-free energy technologies. Valentina Bosetti and Michela Catenacci provide a complete and informative assessment of the current potentials and limits and offer

Innovative Techniques and Applications of Modelling, Identification and Control

Innovative Techniques and Applications of Modelling, Identification and Control
Author: Quanmin Zhu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2018-04-20
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811072124

This book presents the most important findings from the 9th International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC’17), held in Kunming, China on July 10–12, 2017. It covers most aspects of modelling, identification, instrumentation, signal processing and control, with a particular focus on the applications of research in multi-agent systems, robotic systems, autonomous systems, complex systems, and renewable energy systems. The book gathers thirty comprehensively reviewed and extended contributions, which help to promote evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence, computation intelligence and soft computing techniques to enhance the safety, flexibility and efficiency of engineering systems. Taken together, they offer an ideal reference guide for researchers and engineers in the fields of electrical/electronic engineering, mechanical engineering and communication engineering.

Innovations in Intelligent Systems

Innovations in Intelligent Systems
Author: Ajith Abraham
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540396152

Innovations in Intelligent Systems is a rare collection of the latest developments in intelligent paradigms such as knowledge-based systems, computational intelligence and hybrid combinations as well as practical applications in engineering, science, business and commerce. The book covers central topics such as intelligent multi-agent systems, data mining, case-based reasoning, and rough sets. Essential techniques to the development of intelligent machines are investigated such as pattern recognition and classification, machine learning, natural language processing, grammar, evolutionary schemes, fuzzy-neural procedures, and intelligent vision. The book also includes useful applications ranging from medical diagnosis and technical/medical language translation, to power demand forecasting and manufacturing plants. Due to its depth and breadth of the coverage and the usefulness of the techniques and applications, this book is a valuable reference for experts and students alike.

Modeling Environment-Improving Technological Innovations under Uncertainty

Modeling Environment-Improving Technological Innovations under Uncertainty
Author: Alexander Golub
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2008-12-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134041195

The issues of technology and uncertainty are very much at the heart of the policy debate of how much to control greenhouse gas emissions. The costs of doing so are present and high while the benefits are very much in the future and, most importantly, they are highly uncertain. Whilst there is broad consensus on the key elements of climate change science and agreement that near-term actions are needed to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, there is little agreement on the costs and benefits of climate policy. The book looks at different ways of reconciling the needs for sustainability and equity with the costs of action now. Presenting a compendium of methodologies for evaluating the economic impact of technological innovation upon climate-change policy, this book describes mathematical models and their predictions. The goal is to provide a practitioner’s guide for doing the science of economics and climate change. Because the assumptions motivating different problems in the economics of climate change have different complexities, a number of models are presented with varying levels of difficulty: reduced-form and structural, partial- and general-equilibrium, closed-form and computational. A unifying theme of these models is the incorporation of a number of price and quantity instruments and an analysis of their respective efficacies. This book presents models that contain structural uncertainty, i.e., uncertainty that economic agents respond to via their risk attitudes. The novelty of this book is to relate the effects of risk and risk attitudes to environment-improving technological innovation.

Pricing and Regulatory Innovations Under Increasing Competition

Pricing and Regulatory Innovations Under Increasing Competition
Author: Michael A. Crew
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 146156249X

This volume focuses on incentive regulation and competition. While much of the regulatory action is taking place in telecommunications, the impact of competition and the resultant regulatory change is being felt in other traditional public utilities including electricity. The book reviews topics including price caps, incentive regulation, market structure and new regulatory technologies.

OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy: Norway 2008

OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy: Norway 2008
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2008-07-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9264043748

A comprehensive assessment of the innovation system of Norway, focusing on the role of government and including concrete recommendations for improvements.