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Free Innovation
A leading innovation scholar explains the growing phenomenon and impact of free innovation, in which innovations developed by consumers and given away “for free.” In this book, Eric von Hippel, author of the influential Democratizing Innovation, integrates new theory and research findings into the framework of a “free innovation paradigm.” Free innovation, as he defines it, involves …
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The Squares: US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s
When ungroovy scientists did groovy science: how non-activist scientists and engineers adapted their work to a rapidly changing social and political landscape. In The Squares, Cyrus Mody shows how, between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, some scientists and engineers who did not consider themselves activists, New Leftists, or members of the counterculture accommodated their work to the r…
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Age of Auto Electric: Environment, Energy, and the Quest for the Sustainable Car
The electric vehicle revival reflects negotiations between public policy, which promotes clean, fuel-efficient vehicles, and the auto industry, which promotes high-performance vehicles. Electric cars were once as numerous as internal combustion engine cars before all but vanishing from American roads around World War I. Now, we are in the midst of an electric vehicle revival, and the goal fo…
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- 621.31 EIS a
Alerta!: Engineering on Shaky Ground
A lively account of a controversial technology developed to mitigate earthquake risk and change how we live with threatening environments. The Sistema de Alerta Sísmica Mexicano is the world's oldest public earthquake early warning system. Given the unpredictability of earthquakes, the technology was designed to give the people of Mexico City more than a minute to prepare before the next bi…
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Forecasting Travel in Urban America: The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineeri…
A history of urban travel demand modeling (UTDM) and its enormous influence on American life from the 1920s to the present. For better and worse, the automobile has been an integral part of the American way of life for decades. Its ascendance would have been far less spectacular, however, had engineers and planners not devised urban travel demand modeling (UTDM). This book tells the story of…
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Innovation Matters: Competition Policy for the High-Technology Economy
A proposal for moving from price-centric to innovation-centric competition policy, reviewing theory and evidence on economic incentives for innovation. Competition policy and antitrust enforcement have traditionally focused on prices rather than innovation. Economic theory shows the ways that price competition benefits consumers, and courts, antitrust agencies, and economists have developed …
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- 9780262358637
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The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance
How small-scale drones, satellites, kites, and balloons are used by social movements for the greater good. Drones are famous for doing bad things: weaponized, they implement remote-control war; used for surveillance, they threaten civil liberties and violate privacy. In The Good Drone, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines a different range of uses: the deployment of drones for the greater good. …
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Management: Corporate Entrepreneurship
Dieses Lehrbuch zeigt, wie etablierte Unternehmen eine unternehmerische und innovative Organisation schaffen und erhalten können, um langfristig ihre Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zu sichern. Dies wird erreicht über eine unternehmerische Strategie, flexible Organisationsstrukturen und eine passende Organisationskultur. Etliche Instrumente ermöglichen sowohl mehr unternehmerisches Engagement einzelne…
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- 978-3-658-13066-4
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Business Cases in Organisation Behaviour and HRM
This book provides perspectives on various dimensions of organizational behavior (OB) and human resource management (HRM) in an ever-changing world. The world has been experiencing disruptions and technological changes at an unprecedented level in the last two decades. This book is a collection of handpicked cases and teaching notes on the various critical dimensions of OB, such as organization…
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- 978-981-99-2031-0
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- Business
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Impacts of COVID-19 on Supply Chains
This book examines the effects of the pandemic on supply chains and consequent adjustments made by companies to cope with these effects. This research sheds light on the challenges faced by diverse industries during the COVID and post-COVID periods and the solutions employed by companies to tackle them. The book covers several strategies, such as fulfillment strategies, inventory management, i…
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