This report presents three case studies to illustrate the relationship between environmental policy and technological innovation. They cover abatement technologies for wastewater effluent from pulp production, abatement of motor vehicle emissions, and development of renewable en…
The need for informed and effective insights into key concepts and models of regional development and growth, from an endogenous growth perspective, has risen over the past decade. These recent advances address in particular local and regional assets and characteristics comprisi…
"It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglements of minds, bodies, machines. This book explores the impact of technology upon conceptions of language, consciousness, human cog…
Since the early 19th century, technological innovators and theorists have proposed insects as templates for a wide range of technologies. This text explains how insect forms of social organization - swarms, hives, webs and distributed intelligence - have been used to structure m…
Innovation in socio-cultural context
by Westlund, Hans, Adam, Frane
fromRoutledge advances in sociology
"Using a range of contexts, the book sets out to look at whether the classical Clausewitzian theory of the nature of war will retain its validity in this new age. The analysis covers the character of the future battlespace, the function of command and the much-hyped concept of S…
Localized creativity, small high-tech entrepreneurship, related innovation platforms, social capital embedded in dynamically open territorial communities and context-specific though continuously upgrading policy platforms are all means to face new challenges and to promote incre…
Written in an engaging and accessible style, From Innovation to Cash Flows contains practical tools and valuation frameworks based on the authors' experiences working with high-tech managers and advisors. It provides complete analysis of detailed transaction terms that cover the…
[This book] is the first accessible account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876 to 1939: the telephone, electric power, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, radio, the long-span steel bridge, and building with …
[This book] is the first accessible account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876 to 1939: the telephone, electric power, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, radio, the long-span steel bridge, and building with …
