Innovation Without the Word
... The first section of this paper places the study of innovation in perspective, examining innovation as a factor in social change. The rest of the paper documents Ogburn’s discussion and treatment of the above three dimensions of innovation: its origins, diffusion and effects. Some of Ogburn’s ideas ...
... The first section of this paper places the study of innovation in perspective, examining innovation as a factor in social change. The rest of the paper documents Ogburn’s discussion and treatment of the above three dimensions of innovation: its origins, diffusion and effects. Some of Ogburn’s ideas ...
Thesis
... This dissertation is dedicated to my father, Dr David Moyer, who passed away during its completion. Many of the ideas that follow are inspired by his example. He was an anthropologist by profession, but a polymath by disposition, he explored human knowledge in the broadest possible terms – from the ...
... This dissertation is dedicated to my father, Dr David Moyer, who passed away during its completion. Many of the ideas that follow are inspired by his example. He was an anthropologist by profession, but a polymath by disposition, he explored human knowledge in the broadest possible terms – from the ...
The social shaping of technology – a case study of biochar in Denmark
... and chosen another path for the post-war reconstruction, these new green technologies would not still be in their infancy today. Thus, in this perspective, the lack of knowledge, economic incentives and action lead to a temporary halt of approximately 70 years in the development of these technologie ...
... and chosen another path for the post-war reconstruction, these new green technologies would not still be in their infancy today. Thus, in this perspective, the lack of knowledge, economic incentives and action lead to a temporary halt of approximately 70 years in the development of these technologie ...
Electronic Fortune-Tellers - DUO
... transgressions from occurring. As the technology is diffused throughout law enforcement agencies, it may change the ways that officers work on the streets, eventually transforming traditional policing. Alternately, predictive policing could become just another tool in the police arsenal, comparable ...
... transgressions from occurring. As the technology is diffused throughout law enforcement agencies, it may change the ways that officers work on the streets, eventually transforming traditional policing. Alternately, predictive policing could become just another tool in the police arsenal, comparable ...
Narrative Technologies: A Philosophical Investigation of the
... rather than how societies and objects are co-shaped’’ (Kaplan 2009: 236). For this reason, it failed to account for ways in which ‘‘being-with-each-other’’ relations are instantiated, of how intersubjective relations are mediated by technologies (Van Den Eede 2010: 140). We aim at overcoming the neg ...
... rather than how societies and objects are co-shaped’’ (Kaplan 2009: 236). For this reason, it failed to account for ways in which ‘‘being-with-each-other’’ relations are instantiated, of how intersubjective relations are mediated by technologies (Van Den Eede 2010: 140). We aim at overcoming the neg ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES AN INTENSIVE EXPLORATION OF TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION Martí Mestieri
... Comin and Hobijn (2010). Assuming this characterization of technology adoption, we can fully describe cross-country differences in technology dynamics if we know what drives the horizontal and vertical shifts in the diffusion curves. Section 1 develops a model based on Comin and Hobijn (2010) that p ...
... Comin and Hobijn (2010). Assuming this characterization of technology adoption, we can fully describe cross-country differences in technology dynamics if we know what drives the horizontal and vertical shifts in the diffusion curves. Section 1 develops a model based on Comin and Hobijn (2010) that p ...
Social Studies
... relationship between an issue in United States social history and the related aspects of political, economic and environmental history. 16.E.4a – Describe the causes and effects of conservation and environmental movements in the United States, 1900-present. 16.E.4b – Describe different and sometimes ...
... relationship between an issue in United States social history and the related aspects of political, economic and environmental history. 16.E.4a – Describe the causes and effects of conservation and environmental movements in the United States, 1900-present. 16.E.4b – Describe different and sometimes ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION: MEASUREMENT, CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES Diego A. Comin
... lags. However, country-level extensive measures of adoption do not capture how intensively a technology is used once it is present in the country. As we show below, this condition makes country-level extensive measures of technology more relevant to study technology adoption patterns until around th ...
... lags. However, country-level extensive measures of adoption do not capture how intensively a technology is used once it is present in the country. As we show below, this condition makes country-level extensive measures of technology more relevant to study technology adoption patterns until around th ...
Technology Diffusion: Measurement, Causes and Consequences
... do not reflect how many units of a given technology a worker uses. Indeed, technological change is sometimes directed to increasing the number of technological goods that a worker can use at the same time. These concerns may be significant from a quantitative perspective. Clark (1987) shows that, ci ...
... do not reflect how many units of a given technology a worker uses. Indeed, technological change is sometimes directed to increasing the number of technological goods that a worker can use at the same time. These concerns may be significant from a quantitative perspective. Clark (1987) shows that, ci ...
A novel approch to national technological accumulation and
... innovations; the institutionalised search for more important innovations with the development of R&D facilities; the conducting of basic research”. Within this definition, technological capabilities include not only the ability to search and select the most appropriate technology to be assimilated f ...
... innovations; the institutionalised search for more important innovations with the development of R&D facilities; the conducting of basic research”. Within this definition, technological capabilities include not only the ability to search and select the most appropriate technology to be assimilated f ...
The Study of City Technology Innovation Environment Construction
... education and the relationship among them. When facing such an all-round system, it is hard for the city innovation subjects to accord with it, so the government should take more actions in the construction of city technology innovation environment to guarantee full diffluence of innovation element ...
... education and the relationship among them. When facing such an all-round system, it is hard for the city innovation subjects to accord with it, so the government should take more actions in the construction of city technology innovation environment to guarantee full diffluence of innovation element ...
Analysis of Influence Factors on Scientific and Technological
... become the key power which decide the comprehensive national strength and the prospects for development, on the one hand the development of scientific and technological SMEs in China has contributed to the growth of GDP, on the other hand the scientific and technological SMEs provide the technical s ...
... become the key power which decide the comprehensive national strength and the prospects for development, on the one hand the development of scientific and technological SMEs in China has contributed to the growth of GDP, on the other hand the scientific and technological SMEs provide the technical s ...
Sociology of the Future
... Historically, the social sciences shy away from studying lack of knowledge by giving primacy to evidence-based science, which is tied up to the imperative for proof. The future – whether composed of certainties or uncertainties or the inevitable combination of the two – lies outside the realm of pro ...
... Historically, the social sciences shy away from studying lack of knowledge by giving primacy to evidence-based science, which is tied up to the imperative for proof. The future – whether composed of certainties or uncertainties or the inevitable combination of the two – lies outside the realm of pro ...
transforming the narrative of the History of chinese
... along with related technological elements, had some defects, such as insufficient hardness, low paper quality, the absence of a press, and the unsuitability of Chinese ink. Because there were no other suitable technological elements to match Pi’s movable types, it is difficult to regard the inventio ...
... along with related technological elements, had some defects, such as insufficient hardness, low paper quality, the absence of a press, and the unsuitability of Chinese ink. Because there were no other suitable technological elements to match Pi’s movable types, it is difficult to regard the inventio ...
Niches in evolutionary theories of technical change
... Some biologists have explicitly theorized the idea that some variations may be rather large, even while most variations are small. In their view, evolution is not only made up of small changes. While they agree that new species may emerge through the accumulation of many small changes, they see macr ...
... Some biologists have explicitly theorized the idea that some variations may be rather large, even while most variations are small. In their view, evolution is not only made up of small changes. While they agree that new species may emerge through the accumulation of many small changes, they see macr ...
9 GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS AND
... GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: DIRECT AND INDIRECT CHANNELS ...
... GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: DIRECT AND INDIRECT CHANNELS ...
Soft Technology - The Millennium Project
... the skills, tools and rules that are employed by people to alter, accommodate and manage nature for human survival and development. The knowledge derived from social science, non-natural science, and non-scientific (traditionally) knowledge to solve various practical problems also belongs to "the ca ...
... the skills, tools and rules that are employed by people to alter, accommodate and manage nature for human survival and development. The knowledge derived from social science, non-natural science, and non-scientific (traditionally) knowledge to solve various practical problems also belongs to "the ca ...
Localised and Biased Technologies
... Atkinson and Stiglitz’s seminal paper in the ECONOMIC JOURNAL 1969, ‘A New View of Technological Change’, took an important departure from the orthodoxy of its time, which assumed that technological improvements could be viewed as increasing productivity at all factor proportions (in particular, at ...
... Atkinson and Stiglitz’s seminal paper in the ECONOMIC JOURNAL 1969, ‘A New View of Technological Change’, took an important departure from the orthodoxy of its time, which assumed that technological improvements could be viewed as increasing productivity at all factor proportions (in particular, at ...
IMPACT OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER ON
... are embodied in innovations. Because the access to the core technologies is limited, innovations are spreading gradually and differently across countries from country innovator to country imitator (receiving country). One of the reasons for this is that countries differ in the levels of economic dev ...
... are embodied in innovations. Because the access to the core technologies is limited, innovations are spreading gradually and differently across countries from country innovator to country imitator (receiving country). One of the reasons for this is that countries differ in the levels of economic dev ...
Technology upgrading of middle-income economies
... • Motivation 3: wrong metrics leads to irrelevant policies • The contradiction in the current EU approach between its dominant metrics (cf. IUS) which assumes identical technological paths and drivers of growth and the wish to push countries along divergent ‘smart specialization’ paths. • The EU is ...
... • Motivation 3: wrong metrics leads to irrelevant policies • The contradiction in the current EU approach between its dominant metrics (cf. IUS) which assumes identical technological paths and drivers of growth and the wish to push countries along divergent ‘smart specialization’ paths. • The EU is ...
Aalborg Universitet Why all anthropology should be called techno-anthropology Birkbak, Andreas
... pragmatist understanding of technology. In T. Børsen, & L. Botin (eds.), What is TechnoAnthropology?. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag. (Series in Transformational Studies; No. 1, Vol. 2). ...
... pragmatist understanding of technology. In T. Børsen, & L. Botin (eds.), What is TechnoAnthropology?. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag. (Series in Transformational Studies; No. 1, Vol. 2). ...
A Systems Definition of Educational Technology in Society
... Hard systems thinking dominating the systems science in the 1960s and 1970s treats systems as deterministic entities. This is eventually replaced in the late 1980s and 1990s by soft systems thinking and postmodernist ideals where design problems are treated as ill defined and systems are subject too ...
... Hard systems thinking dominating the systems science in the 1960s and 1970s treats systems as deterministic entities. This is eventually replaced in the late 1980s and 1990s by soft systems thinking and postmodernist ideals where design problems are treated as ill defined and systems are subject too ...
The Cultural Evolution of Technology and Science
... locally adaptive technology has allowed humans to colonize and inhabit virtually every terrestrial environment on the planet. Yet there are also numerous examples of the negative consequences of technology, such as the overexploitation of resources, facilitation of large-scale warfare, and increase ...
... locally adaptive technology has allowed humans to colonize and inhabit virtually every terrestrial environment on the planet. Yet there are also numerous examples of the negative consequences of technology, such as the overexploitation of resources, facilitation of large-scale warfare, and increase ...
