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Showing 1 to 20 of 248 for “"technology development"”.
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Lean technology development
In today's corporate world, successful technology management is separating market leaders from laggards. Because technology is in constant change and what is state-of-the-art today will be obsolete tomorrow, it is not companies with the best technologies that ultimately succeed. Instead, successful …
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Understanding technology development processes theory & practice
Technology development is hard for management to understand and hard for practitioners to explain, however it is an essential component of innovation. While there are standard and predictable processes for product development, many of these techniques don't apply well to technology development. Are …
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Technology development in mouse genetics and epigenetics
… questions in many areas of research such as developmental biology, cancer biology, neuroscience and genetics. However, even though the methods to make transgenic mice and gene knockin and knockouts have been successful, they are very inefficient, labor intensive and costly. Therefore, in this …
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Components and Technology Development for Personal Diagnostics Laboratory
Finally, a fully functional integrated lab-on-a-chip system is presented in the last chapter. This device is composed of microfluidic channels, valves, mixers, and liquid presence sensors. The device is tailored to perform a cell lyses protocol. This involves precise metering and transportation of …
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Technology development productivity : case studies in technology transition
Development of new technology is critical to the growth and success of technology-driven companies. New technology is generated in a number of ways, one of the most important being the company's own internal research and development department. This thesis examines the transfer of technology …
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Technology development targets for commercial In-Space Manufacturing
… fabrication of space systems must be developed. Technology development planning for ISM is complicated by the existence of various proposed commercial ISM architectures, each with their own technologies, products, and costs. Instead of attempting to estimate these highly uncertain quantities, …
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Major automotive firms' engine technology development (1980-1990)
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1992.
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Rapid Technology Development for High-Speed Compressors and Fans
Developing high-speed compressor and fan technology in the gas turbine industry is a costly and time-consuming process. It can take five to ten years for a new technology to reach the required maturity level for use in an engine, with a total program cost in the tens of millions of dollars. This is …
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Method for analysis of front-end technology development effectivity
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2001.
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Reliability Characterisation of III-Nitrides Based Devices for Technology Development
… back widespread commercial and industrial development. Recoverable degradation (e.g. current collapse and on-resistance) and unrecoverable degradation (e.g. access resistance of contacts, and gate leakage current) persist to be limiting reliability factors. The mechanisms contributing …
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Technology development for studying information flow in biological neural networks
This thesis mainly focuses on the technology development of electrophysiological recording devices and optical stimulation devices for studying the information. How along the neural network in the brain. Specifically, it concentrates on the penetrating microelectrode array and the micro-sized light …
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Rethinking CCS - strategies for technology development in times of uncertainty
… of the world's energy supply have motivated the development of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS). However, CCS is not yet commercially available, and key technical roadblocks remain. However, the external circumstances for developing the technology, such as weak climate policy and tight …
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Technology development and business strategy : a changing environment impacts practices
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1997.
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Technology Development for the Functional and Structural Analysis of the Brain
Tool development for neuroscience has allowed us to study brain function and structure with great detail. However, as all technologies have limitations, we are yet far from fully deciphering brain dynamics and its relationship to its anatomical structure. In this thesis, I describe the development …
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Modeling and Optimization of In-Space Manufacturing to Inform Technology Development
… a methodology is developed to inform ISM technology development by simultaneously considering the design of manufacturing equipment and fabricated components. This methodology relates ISM facility design parameters to overall mission benefit through both manufacturing models, which compute …
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Simulations and technology development for time-domain astronomy : TESS and InGaAs detectors
… astronomy is in the midst of significant developments due to new instruments, data processing techniques, and space missions. The Kepler mission has identified thousands of exoplanet systems with the transit technique, allowing the first statistical analyses of the exoplanet population. …
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Evaluating future biopharmaceutical inspection needs, infrastructure capability gaps, and technology development strategies
The biotechnology industry is undergoing a paradigm shift in the properties of the manufactured drug product. As therapeutic protein formulations change from agonist to antagonist methods of action, the concentration of proteins in each dose increased by orders of magnitude, and with it, the …
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Three Essays on Economic Growth and Technology Development: Considering the Spillover Effects
… on the empirical analysis of economic growth and technology development. In particular, I consider spillover effects in different frameworks. The first chapter outlines the three topics involved and briefly discusses the motivations, methods as well as some conclusions in each of the following …
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Advancing the technology development for better quality wood plastic composites: process ability study
Wood Plastic Composites (WPC) have advantages over natural wood such as improved stiffness, recyclability, and waste minimization. However, issues such as the difficulty of processing WPC with conventional methods, volatile emission from the wood and the composites’ lack of strength must be …
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New sustainable models of open innovation to accelerate technology development in cellular agriculture
… These challenges, referring to the translational development of cell lines, serum-free media, cell-scaffolds, and bioreactor designs with regulatory and market assessment efforts, require new models for industry collaboration. The Open-Innovation Network Map was used to prioritize key …
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