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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Technology - Innovation"”.
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Technology innovation in financial services industry
… in the financial services industry driven by technology innovations. Indeed, we cannot imagine the current financial system without electronic fund transfers, ATMs, and Internet banking among many other innovative implementations. In fact, the financial services industry is the largest market …
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Methodology to manage process technology innovation
… Advanced Manufacturing group and its process technology development methodology. The newly founded Advanced Manufacturing group started multiple innovation projects, but did not successfully implement any of them so far. Lack of organizational integration, an overall R&D strategy, as well as a …
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Digital photography and the dynamics of technology innovation
… consumer market. It is a current example of innovation and technological discontinuity, and one that has enough history to permit analysis. It poses a real potential disruptive threat to the incumbent players, some of which have succumbed while others apparently succeeded. This thesis studies …
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Implementing a new organization to manage manufacturing technology innovation
… to develop state-of-the-art manufacturing technology to compliment the next generation engineering designs. This thesis documents the efforts of a company implementing change detailing the specific challenges they faced. The principle lessons learned during the course of this project are …
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Patterns of technology innovation in National Security Space acquisition
… are sought through the use of innovative technology while cost and schedule constraints drive the use of proven components. In an effort towards resolving this apparent contradiction through better understanding of the socio-technical NSS innovation system, this work presents the first …
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Low-technology innovation in a sectoral system:a critical realist perspective
… of the existence or nonexistence of low-technology innovation from a sectoral system of innovation (SSI) perspective. Embedded in the critical realist paradigm, this study espouses the notion of a stratified ontology. Moreover, it considers innovation to be systemic and nonsequential …
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A SOCIAL MODEL FOR THE CONSUMER ACCEPTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
… last three decades to find the determinants of technology usage and adoption. Numerous models have been developed in the United States and other developed countries to enhance the understanding of this issue. However, two main questions remain as to what extent these models and conclusions based …
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Quantifying the impact of energy technology innovation on cost reductions
… energy systems. The recent achievements in technology innovation for two mature renewable energy technologies, onshore wind and solar photovoltaic are generally recognised by decision-makers. However, this is not enough and most of current energy systems remain dependent on fossil-fuel …
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An institutional study of a government-led green technology innovation scheme
… of climate change by diffusing a range of green technology innovations. Such green technology innovation diffusions, however, are not without controversy. <br/><br/>This thesis focuses on one controversial government-led green technology innovation scheme which was comparatively small but …
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DOD Mission Engineering and Integration Explorative-Exploitative Architecture for Technology Innovation
… of U.S. Department of Defense to achieve timely innovation in support of U.S. National Defense and Military Strategies continues to increase in significance. The growing challenges in U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) technological innovation in a context of global security and rapid pace of …
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StoneSoup: Technology Innovation, Introduction, and Use to Support Learner -Centered Education
… approach to change or improvement that utilizes technology to correct faults, remove inconsistencies, and impose modern methods or values is referred to as techno-reform (Snow, 2005). A techno-reform approach to public school transformation introduces technological innovations into educational …
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Dynamics of technology innovation and diffusion with emphasis on wind energy
… takes an interdisciplinary look at wind energy innovation and diffusion through a historical case study and system dynamic quantitative model. The former uses a framework known as actor-network- theory (that allows technical as well social forces to shape historical outcomes) and applies it to …
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Incorporating users into sanitation technology innovation: Challenges to knowledge coherence between disciplines
… into sanitation interventions and sanitation technology design is required but how to go about this process is uncertain. Three primary methods for incorporating users into technology design have been popular in engineering sciences: user centered design, multiple criteria decision analysis, …
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RESEARCH ON POLICY-BASED FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION OF CHINESE ADVANCED MANUFACTURERS
… policy-based finance can play in enterprises' technology innovation, how to play the role, and existing shortcomings and constraints. Policy-based finance refers to the financial means adopted by a country's government in order to achieve specific policy objectives such as industrial policies, …
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Waste-Based Bioenergy: operationalising Technology Innovation System analysis to go beyond assessments of potential into implementation
… to use them. To understand slowly evolving technology trajectories and how to facilitate the pace of implementation, sustainability transition approaches such as the Technology Innovation System (TIS) framework have been found to be useful. The aim of this thesis is to explore the utility of …
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Consortia as Technology Innovation Management Vehicles: Toward a Framework for Success in Venture Based Public-Private Partnerships
… to develop and manage commercialization of innovation technologies. The evaluation, support, and management of technologically based consortia has traditionally been held in the private sector. There is a somewhat mature literature guiding innovation management (Utterback 1996; Rosenberg et …
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Technology innovation management in the Nigerian banking industry: integrating stakeholders' perspectives, an exploration of strategy and policy implications.
Technology innovation is one of the defining attributes of the 21st century. The banking sector amongst other key sectors has embraced the use of new technologies to offer electronic banking (e-banking) services. E-banking has been introduced in various economies of the world as a way of delivering …
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Teacher perceptions of moving toward technology innovation: does an enhancing education through technology grant lead to innovation and change?
… in a project funded by an EETT grant for technology integration, concentrating on factors that reveal how the implementation of the 21st century hardware and staff development might have changed the atmosphere of their classrooms and teaching practices. The project was implemented by three …
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Enablers of and barriers to digital innovation success: a comparative study of structured versus unstructured technology innovation environments in Kenya
Western theories dominate research on digital innovation in the Global South, neglecting contextual differences. Further, current research lacks focus on how structured versus unstructured innovation environments affect digital innovation success in these contexts. This study's investigation and …
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An investigation of Organisational Carbon Accounting (OCA) practices in the Defence Sector to determine how these can best support Low Carbon Technology Innovation
… the defence sector can best support low carbon technology innovation. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the literature, drawing on the fields of Carbon Accounting, Defence Industrial Policy, and Innovation Studies. It finds that there some difficulties allocating emissions to …
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