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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Technical innovation"”.
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The process of technical innovation in instrument firms.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1969. Ph.D.
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Stimulating technical innovation by small and medium-sized enterprises in China
The effect of innovation on the economy is increasingly obvious and important in many countries, including China. In order to encourage and sustain technological innovation, Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) are not only necessary but also vital. This dissertation is an empirical study to …
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The social construction of technical innovation in the UK oil and gas industry.
Innovation and creative destruction should thrive in the competitive, high risk and high cost environment of the North Sea. Paradoxically, uptake of new technology is slow. The focus of this research was to understand how new technology is developed and how end users make decisions about …
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Stepping your game up : technical innovation among young people of color in hip-hop
… mark young black men and rarely reflect the technical sophistication and cultural literacy mobilized in hip-hop expression. This thesis begins with a reading of hip-hop culture through its use of media technologies, moves on to a historical examination of the hip-hop mixtape economy, and …
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Evaluating the technical innovation landscape for wind energy's competitive future : a value creation -- value capture analysis
… value creation and value capture potential of technical innovations in the wind energy sector of the electric power industry. Six technical innovations are considered for the analysis, including Grid-Scale Storage, On-Site Manufacturing Systems, Transmission Power Flow Control, Near-Term …
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Smarter cities: socio-technical innovation towards sustainable urban transport futures. The case of re-establishing utility cycling as a mainstream mode in London
… arising externalities through technological innovation. Evidence, however, suggests that technologically-induced efficiency gains in the transport sector are likely to be short-lived in the absence of simultaneous changes in mobility cultures and transport practices. This thesis, therefore, …
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Smarter cities: socio-technical innovation towards sustainable urban transport futures - the case of re-establishing utility cycling as a mainstream mode in London
… arising externalities through technological innovation. Evidence, however, suggests that technologically-induced efficiency gains in the transport sector are likely to be short-lived in the absence of simultaneous changes in mobility cultures and transport practices. This thesis, therefore, …
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Innovation and institutions: Examining the black box
… investigating the links between institutions and innovation from both a theoretical and an empirical standpoint. Specifically, this dissertation (i) develops a theoretical growth model that explicitly accounts for the influences of institutions on technical innovation and output production; (ii) …
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Influence of Project-Level Characteristics and Factors on Innovation and Value Creation in US Highway Public-Private Partnership Projects
Innovation is a popular topic that receives significant attention from both organizations and academics. This attention includes scholars, executives, public entities, and private organizations in the construction and infrastructure fields. Scholars have examined innovation in both construction and …
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Influence of Project-Level Characteristics and Factors on Innovation and Value Creation in US Highway Public-Private Partnership Projects
Innovation is a popular topic that receives significant attention from both organizations and academics. This attention includes scholars, executives, public entities, and private organizations in the construction and infrastructure fields. Scholars have examined innovation in both construction and …
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An Urban Edge for Innovation & Reservation: create a figurative stage for students to perform their lives
… the master plan for the entire site, balancing technical innovation with appreciation for cultural inheritance. This thesis attempts to explore approaches to design decision making, as a response to a project's site, its history, and the larger cultural context. The above issues are investigated …
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Sampling Using Controlled Quantum Walks
… proposed by Dohotaru and Høyer in 2015. Our main technical innovation is to allow for multiple distinct controlled reflections. This allows us to generate the quantum state analogous to the target probability distribution over vertices. This quantum state, when measured, gives a corresponding …
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Focal lengths and gravity waves
… fiction ideology (aesthetics) lost pace with technical innovation - a derailment, so to speak, with nefarious implications for the present-day filmmaker. The emphasis is on lenses - the provocative "camera eye" - and sound recording equipment - which proved to be the rate-limiter of technical …
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The Modernist Quoting Poem
… their poetry and founded the "quoting poem," a technical innovation that helped characterize the Modernist revolution. Through its appropriating another texture, quoting introduces doubleness into the quoting poem. Understood as textural doubleness, quotation modifies many definitions of …
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Interactive and Controlled Visual Content Generation
… and object-level control, this thesis bridges technical innovation with user-centric design, fostering a more inclusive and empowering creative economy.
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Concatenative Synthesis for Novel Timbral Creation
… than a personal computer. This desire to embrace technical innovation as a means to augment performance art has created a budding field in computer science that explores the creation and manipulation of sound for artistic purposes. One facet of this new frontier concerns timbral creation, or the …
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Analysis of variability in the semiconductor industry
While the pace of technical innovation in the semiconductor industry continues to accelerate, business processes and supply chain techniques have not kept up. Microprocessor performance improvement continues to follow Moore's Law, but increased variability has complicated efforts to accurately …
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From ‘docker’ to ‘terminal operator': work and employment change in the Port of London 1989 to 2002
… and had provided a definition of "dock work'. Technical innovations in cargoes handling, especially containerisation, however, had altered how dock work was performed and had reduced the numbers of men needed. This had exacerbated problems in an industry notorious for its contentious industrial …
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Leveraging Capacity: Technical Solutions to Hunger in the Era of Neoliberalism
<p>Leveraging Capacity: Technical Solutions to Hunger in the Era of Neoliberalism takes the Global Seed Vault and the value of "global crop diversity" as a point of departure for raising questions about the influence of digital technology on the seed and about the solution to hunger known as …
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Kriminalistinė odorologija: samprata, reikšmė, teorinės ir praktinės problemos /
… effective, not always exploited scientific and technical innovation. In order to develop specific methods and tools for forensic objects in the detection and investigation formed part of forensic science - criminal techniques and the system branches. One such forensic technical branches are …
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