Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process

Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process
Author: John M. Ziman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2003-09-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521542173

Ground-breaking yet non-technical analysis of the analogy that technological artefacts 'evolve' like biological organisms.

The Dark Side of Technological Innovation

The Dark Side of Technological Innovation
Author: Bing Ran
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1623960630

Managing technological innovations and related policy and strategy issues have been a central focus of the new millennium. This book series presents an interdisciplinary scholarship and dialogue on the management of innovation and technological change in a global context from a variety of perspectives, including strategic, managerial, behavioral, and policy issues. Papers selected in this volume have four prominent themes: the wide spread interests and the global application of the technological innovation; the practicality of the research on technological innovation implementation to foster success and financial growth; the socio-technical challenges behind innovation and creativity that might outweigh the benefits; and the new principles/practices/perspectives on our understanding of the technological innovation. Contributed by prominent scholars and practitioners from around the world in innovation, management and policy area, this book will become a very useful read for anyone who is interested in learning the most contemporary perspectives on the subject.

Detecting and Explaining Technological Innovation in Prehistory

Detecting and Explaining Technological Innovation in Prehistory
Author: Michela Spataro
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-12-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9789088908248

Technology refers to any set of standardised procedures for transforming raw materials into finished products. Innovation consists of any change in technology which has tangible and lasting effect on human practices, whether or not it provides utilitarian advantages. Prehistoric societies were never static, but the tempo of innovation occasionally increased to the point that we can refer to transformation taking place. Prehistorians must therefore identify factors promoting or hindering innovation.This volume stems from an international workshop, organised by the Collaborative Research Centre 1266 'Scales of Transformation' at Kiel University in November 2017. The meeting challenged its participants to detect and explain technological change in the past and its role in transformation processes, using archaeological and ethnographic case studies. The papers draw mainly on examples from prehistoric Europe, but case-studies from Iran, the Indus Valley, and contemporary central America are also included. The authors adopt several perspectives, including cultural-historical, economic, environmental, demographic, functional, and agent-based approaches.These case studies often rely on interdisciplinary research, whereby field archaeology, archaeometric analysis, experimental archaeology and ethnographic research are used together to observe and explain innovations and changes in the artisan's repertoire. The results demonstrate that interdisciplinary research is becoming essential to understanding transformation phenomena in prehistoric archaeology, superseding typo-chronological description and comparison.This book is a scholarly publication aimed at academic researchers, particularly archaeologists and archaeological scientists working on ceramics, osseous and metal artifacts.

Technological Innovation

Technological Innovation
Author: Laurier Schramm
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2017-12-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3110429241

The book provides a basic introduction on innovation technology in research and industry, mainly chemical/ technical industry and therefore bridges the gap between academic and corporate markets. The different innovation stages are discussed and tools presented how to successfully apply this knowledge within a research organization.

Energy Technology Innovation

Energy Technology Innovation
Author: Arnulf Grubler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2014
Genre: Law
ISBN: 110702322X

An edited volume on factors determining success or failure of energy technology innovation, for researchers and policy makers.

The Process of Technological Innovation

The Process of Technological Innovation
Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.). Division of Industrial Science and Technological Innovation. Productivity Improvement Research Section
Publisher:
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1983
Genre: Industrial policy
ISBN:

The Management of Technological Innovation

The Management of Technological Innovation
Author: Mark Dodgson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2008-02-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199208522

The management of technological innovation (MTI) is one of the most important challenges facing businesses today. Innovation has become the fundamental driver of competitiveness for firms of all sizes in virtually all business sectors and nations.The first edition of this book has become one of the most popular texts for students of innovation and technology management. This new edition sees David Gann and Ammon Salter join Mark Dodgson as authors, drawing on their combined experience of 60 years of researching and teaching MTI. It combines the most relevant theoretical analysis with contemporary and historical empirical evidence to provide a comprehensive, yet concise and readable, guide to the challenges of MTI.By explaining the innovation process the book reveals the broad scope of MTI and its importance for company survival, growth and sustainability. It describes how MTI has to be managed strategically and how this is successfully achieved by formulating and implementing strategy and delivering value. Chapters provide frameworks, tools and techniques, and case studies on managing: innovation strategy, communities, and networks, R&D, design and new product and service development, operationsand production, and commercialization.Based on robust analysis, the book provides a wide range of empirical evidence from a huge diversity of case studies, with around fifty case studies newly written for this edition. It analyses MTI in all parts of the world, in companies large and small, and in services, manufacturing, and resource-based business sectors.This new edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the latest teaching and research, and to ensure its continuing relevance to the contemporary world of MTI. It will be an important resource for academics, students, and managers throughout the world, is a recommended text for students of innovation and technology management at postgraduate and undergraduate level, and is particularly valuable for MBA courses.

Paths of Innovation

Paths of Innovation
Author: David C. Mowery
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1999-10-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521646536

In 1903 the Wright brothers' airplane travelled a couple of hundred yards. Today fleets of streamlined jets transport millions of people each day to cities worldwide. Between discovery and application, between invention and widespread use, there is a world of innovation, of tinkering, improvement and adaptation. This is the world David Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg map out in Paths of Innovation, a tour of the intersecting routes of technological change. Throughout their book, Mowery and Rosenberg demonstrate that the simultaneous emergence of new engineering and applied science disciplines in the universities, in tandem with growth in the Research and Development industry and scientific research, has been a primary factor in the rapid rate of technological change. Innovation and incentives to develop new, viable processes have led to the creation of new economic resources - which will determine the future of technological innovation and economic growth.

New Medical Devices

New Medical Devices
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309038472

In the past 50 years the development of a wide range of medical devices has improved the quality of people's lives and revolutionized the prevention and treatment of disease, but it also has contributed to the high cost of health care. Issues that shape the invention of new medical devices and affect their introduction and use are explored in this volume. The authors examine the role of federal support, the decision-making process behind private funding, the need for reforms in regulation and product liability, the effects of the medical payment system, and other critical topics relevant to the development of new devices.