Recherche et développement

Innovation: a very short introduction

by Dodgson, Mark, Gann, David

fromVery short introductions

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"What is innovation? How important is innovation in business? How can we use it to succeed? In the last 150 years our world has been transformed - largely due to innovation. Our parents were born into a world where television had yet to be invented, and there was no penicillin o…

Seeds and synergies: innovation in rural development in China

by Vernooy, Ronnie, Song, Yiching

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Highlights a participatory plant breeding experiment carried out by indigenous farmers and researchers in view of improving maize varieties and production. Shows that the experiment increased farmers' yield and income, strengthened their organizational capacity, created new live…

African urban harvest: agriculture in the cities of Cameroon, Kenya and …

by International Development Research Centre (Canada), Prain, Gordon, Lee-Smith, Diana, Karanja, Nancy

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This book seeks to answer the question of how much urban agriculture helps feed and support people living in towns and cities with evidence and proposals based on studies in Eastern and Central Africa.

Handbook on deriving capital measures of intellectual property products

by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

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"The latest System of National Accounts (the 2008 SNA) recognizes, for the first time, that expenditures on research and experimental development (R & D) should be recorded as capital formation. This is an extension to the 1993 SNA, which recommends recording many acquisitions o…

The Petroleum handbook

by Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij

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Textbook and reference book on petroleum and the petroleum industry - covers industrial structure trends (incl. The USSR), geologycal and technical aspects, production costs, techniques used in drilling and offshore installations, manufacturing processes and marketing of petrole…

Corporate financial policy and R & D management

by Guerard, John, Guerard, John B.

fromWiley finance series

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"Corporate Financial Policy and R & D Management, Second Edition offers an up-to-date and one-of-a-kind perspective on current corporate R & D management and financial policy. Drawing on U.S. corporate results over the past three-plus decades, it offers a framework for the evalu…

Innovation policy and governance in high-tech industries: the complexity of coordination

by Bauer, Johannes M., Schneider, Volker, Lang, Achim

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The book examines the conditions for successful high-technology policy from theoretical and empirical perspectives. It enhances the predominant national systems of innovation approach to innovation policy with concepts based on new developments in the govern-ance of complex syst…

Digital libraries

by Arms, William Y.

fromDigital libraries and electronic publishing

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"The emergence of the Internet and the wide availability of affordable computing equipment have created tremendous interest in digital libraries and electronic publishing. This book is the first to provide an integrated overview of the field, including a historical perspective, …

Sources of industrial leadership: studies of seven industries

by Nelson, Richard R., Mowery, David C.

fromBusiness book summary

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"This book describes and analyzes how seven major high-tech industries evolved in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe. The industries covered are machine tools, organic chemical products, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, computers, semiconductors, and software. In each…

Constructing the new industrial society

by Naschold, Frieder

fromSocial science for social action

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Evaluates a research programme of the Swedish Work Environment Fund, called "Leadership, Organization and Codetermination," concerning strategies for change and development in working life and the role of active participation in workplace development.

Managing technological innovation

by Twiss, Brian C.

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Monograph on management of technological change and Innovation and research and development in enterprises in the UK - covers corporate planning strategies, technological forecasting, creative thinking, project selection, cost analysis and project evaluation, the organization of…