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Intangibles, Market Failure and Innovation Performance
This book addresses the issue of intangibles' contribution to growth at macroeconomic and microeconomic levels. It provides a review of a set of new approaches to innovation growth. It also considers the issue of how to invest in intangibles, especially with regard to the market failure issue. The book focusses on three major themes: First it provides a better understanding of how intangible…
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- 978-3-319-07532-7
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- VI, 310
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- 330 INT
European Autonomy in Spac
The volume provides analyses and evaluations of the continuing importance of Europe’s autonomy in its access to space as a key driver in the development of European space capabilities. From a detailed historical analysis of some of the pitfalls of dependence in the space industry, experts analyse the full range of current European space capabilities and identify areas where autonomy is both p…
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- 978-3-319-11110-0
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- 6 b/w illustrations
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Ethical Engineering for International Development and Environmental Sustainab…
Ensuring that their work has a positive influence on society is a responsibility and a privilege for engineers, but also a considerable challenge. This book addresses the ways in which engineers meet this challenge, working from the assumption that for a project to be truly ethical both the undertaking itself and its implementation must be ethically sound. The contributors discuss varied to…
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- 978-1-4471-6618-4
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- 28 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
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Towards a Dynamic Regional Innovation System
Embedding the theoretical discussion on the framework of evolutionary regional innovation systems (RIS), this book reveals the informal nature of the emerging RIS in China, within which interactive learning is organized on the basis of social networks. Furthermore, in a comparative study in the Pearl River Delta, China demonstrates that dirigiste governance in the initial industrialization phas…
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- 978-3-662-45415-2
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- XI, 189
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Enforcing and Trading Patents Evidence for Europe
Applying novel datasets, Fabian Gäßler analyzes how key aspects of the current patent system in Europe and Germany, respectively, affect patent enforcement and patent trade. In particular, he shows what factors determine court selection in patent litigation and how the jurisdictional separation of validity and infringement questions favors the patent holder. The author further provides empiri…
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- 978-3-658-13375-7
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- 35 b/w illustrations
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Energy Systems and Management
Readers of this work will find examinations of the current status and future status for energy sources and technologies, their environmental interactions and the relevant global energy policies. The work begins with an overview of Energy Technologies for a Sustainable Future, which examines the correlation between population, economy and energy consumption in the past, and reviews the conventio…
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- 978-3-319-16024-5
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- 27 b/w illustrations, 108 illustrations in colour
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New Perspectives on Internationalization and Competitiveness
This volume showcases contributions from leading academics, educators and policymakers derived from two workshops hosted by the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES) at George Mason University on internationalization and competitiveness. It aims to present key areas of current research and to identify basic problems within the field to promote further discussion and research. …
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- 978-3-319-11978-6
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- XV, 185
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Nanotechnology and Ethical Governance in the European Union and China
This book addresses questions surrounding the feasibility of a global approach to ethical governance of science and technology. The emergence and rapid spread of nanotechnology offers a test case for how the world might act when confronted with a technology that could transform the global economy and provide solutions to issues such as pollution, while potentially creating new environmental and…
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- 978-3-319-18232-2
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- XII, 227
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Emotional Engineering Volume 4
This book describes the important role of emotion in a hyper-connected society and how product development and manufacture change. It explores how our work and lifestyle may be affected by forthcoming technologies and presents key research on multisensory informatics, one of the most important tools for making the most of emotion. This fourth volume of the Emotional Engineering Series focuse…
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- 978-3-319-29433-9
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- 40 b/w illustrations, 85 illustrations in colour
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Emotional Engineering (Vol. 3)
This book examines how theories of human emotion can be applied to engineering in order to improve product design and value. ‘Emotional Engineering Vol. 3’ establishes the idea that customer satisfaction can be maximised by using knowledge and experience in a more flexible manner to respond to a fast-changing world. This integration of emotion and knowledge introduces the reader to the conc…
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- 978-3-319-11555-9
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- 19 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
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