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The Science and Technology Labor Force
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the demand for PhDs on the labor markets of twelve countries. The authors analyze the role of PhDs in the creation of innovation in a knowledge-based economy and examine economic issues such as the return on investment for the education and training of doctoral graduates. To provide a more comprehensive picture of the employment patterns, career paths …
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- 978-3-319-27210-8
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Empowering Users through Design Interdisciplinary Studies and Combined Appro…
At the crossroads of various disciplines, this collective work examines the possibility of a new end-user “engagement” in ongoing digital/technological products and services development. It provides an overview of recent research specifically focused on the user’s democratic participation and empowerment. It also enables readers to better identify the main opportunities of participatory d…
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- 978-3-319-13018-7
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- 11 b/w illustrations, 57 illustrations in colour
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The Relevance of Crowdfunding the mpact on the Innovation Process of Small …
Nadine Scholz shows that crowdfunding potentially shortens the development cycle of new products, thus enabling an earlier market entry. Hence, crowdfunding serves as a multifaceted early-stage support instrument for innovation implementation facilitated by the crowd's resources. It not only provides upfront cash for product development and production, more importantly it enables a firm to show…
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- 978-3-658-09837-7
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The Relevance of Crowdfunding the Impact on the Innovation Process of Small…
Nadine Scholz shows that crowdfunding potentially shortens the development cycle of new products, thus enabling an earlier market entry. Hence, crowdfunding serves as a multifaceted early-stage support instrument for innovation implementation facilitated by the crowd's resources. It not only provides upfront cash for product development and production, more importantly it enables a firm to show…
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On the brink of Utopia :reinventing innovation to solve the world's largest p…
"The book offers a framework for how to make innovation leaps more likely - and shows how radically improved technology can help solve the major challenges the world currently faces"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262376259
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The evolution of techniques :rigidity and flexibility in use, transmission, a…
A novel, interdisciplinary exploration of the relative contributions of rigidity and flexibility in the adoption, maintenance, and evolution of technical traditions. Techniques can either be used in rigid, stereotypical ways or in flexibly adaptive ways, or in some combination of the two. The Evolution of Techniques , edited by Mathieu Charbonneau, addresses the impacts of both flexibility and …
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- 9780262378390
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Productive tensions :how every leader can tackle innovation's toughest trade-…
How leaders can recast innovation's toughest trade-offs--efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose--as productive tensions. Why is leading innovation in today's dynamic business environment so distressingly hit-or-miss More than 90 percent of high-potential ventures don't reach their projected targets. Surveys show that 80 percent of executives consider innovation c…
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The great remobilization :strategies and designs for a smarter global future
"A roadmap for designing a more equitable and sustainable future"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373791
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The work of the future :building better jobs in an age of intelligent machines
"A trade book based on the final report of MIT's Work of the Future Task Force"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262367750
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Reimagining design :unlocking strategic innovation
"How a deliberate merger of design and innovation capabilities can help organizations garner more strategic advantage, pursue sustainable growth, navigate disruption, and improve foresight"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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