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  • Improving the Efficiency of R&D and the Market Diffusion of Energy Technologies

    by Harald Bradke, Frank Marscheider-Weidemann, Oliver Som, Wilhelm Mannsbar, Clemens Cremer, Carsten Dreher, Jakob Edler, Bernd Ebersberger, Peter Radgen, Sascha Ruhland, Alexandra Krebs ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Is there a chance that public or private research and development institutions can improve the efficiency of the R&D process? This book gives a positive answer by designing an integrated concept of the science technology cycle and the innovation system of each technology. The position of a new technology in the sciencetechnology cycle is identified by several indicators from patent analysis, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Low-tech Innovation

    Competitiveness of the German Manufacturing Sector

    Edited by Oliver Som, Eva Kirner ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book highlights the economic relevance of the so-called low-tech industries and firms. Non R&D intensive firms continue to be the economic backbone of several developed industrial countries. They form the core of National Innovation Systems and contribute significantly to growth and employment. However, due to their lack of R&D activity, they are easily overlooked in the general innovation ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    Energy and the Future of Transportation

    by A.J. Friedemann ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    In lively and engaging language, this book describes our dependence on freight transport and its vulnerability to diminishing supplies and high prices of oil. Ships, trucks, and trains are the backbone of civilization, hauling the goods that fulfill our every need and desire. Their powerful, highly-efficient diesel combustion engines are exquisitely fine-tuned to burn petroleum-based diesel fuel. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Value Imperative

    Harvesting Value from Your IT Initiatives

    by Robert Collins, Gerald G. Grant ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Organizational executives must change the way they think about how to invest in and manage IT if they want to get lasting value from computer-based innovations. The old way of thinking has not served organizations well. They continue to experience high levels of technological and operational failures even though they apply a wide variety of industry best practices. The rapid pace of technological ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Come On!

    Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet

    by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Anders Wijkman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Current worldwide trends are not sustainable. The Club of Rome’s warnings published in the book Limits to Growth are still valid. Remedies that are acceptable for the great majority tend to make things worse. We seem to be in a philosophical crisis. Pope Francis says it clearly: our common home is in deadly danger. Analyzing the philosophical crisis, the book comes to the conclusion that the world ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Search for the Ultimate Energy Source

    A History of the U.S. Fusion Energy Program

    by Stephen O. Dean ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Why has the clean, limitless energy promised by fusion always seemed just out of reach?Search for the Ultimate Energy Source: A History of the U.S. Fusion Energy Program, explains the fundamentals and concepts behind fusion power, and traces the development of fusion historically by decade—covering its history as dictated by US government policies, its major successes, and its prognosis for the ... Read more

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  • Labor Markets and Multinational Enterprises in Puerto Rico

    Foreign Direct Investment Influences and Sustainable Growth

    by Ahmad H. Juma'h, Antonio Lloréns-Rivera, Doris Morales-Rodriguez ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book expresses the reasons to embark on a production management system and begin a journey to a better social and economic life in Puerto Rico. Among the population of Puerto Rico there is a simultaneous presence of a high rate of unemployment and a well-educated workforce. How has this happened? How could the country overcome this economic situation and return to a path of sustainable ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Aiming Big with Small Cars

    Emergence of a Lead Market in India

    by Cornelius Herstatt, Rajnish Tiwari ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book focuses on the small car segment of India's automotive industry to explain the emergence of lead markets. The authors contend that the current understanding of lead markets does not sufficiently explain the business practices that are born out of the intensified globalization of innovation. Lead markets are considered crucial for the global diffusion of new products and this book ... Read more

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  • Sustainability Innovations in the Electricity Sector

    Edited by Dorothea Jansen, Katrin Ostertag, Rainer Walz ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The future of modern societies depends on their ability to deal with the challenge of climate change in the coming decades. One essential component is a better understanding of innovation processes in the energy sector. This book focuses on sustainability innovations in renewable energies, combined heat and power, and energy service contracting, and analyses the institutions, actors and functions ... Read more

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  • Managing Innovation in Japan

    The Role Institutions Play in Helping or Hindering how Companies Develop Technology

    by Chihiro Watanabe ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book summarizes highlights of the investigation of “An Elucidation of the Role of Institutional Systems in Characterizing Technology Development Trajectories – A Global Comparative Analysis of Manufacturing Technology and Information Te- nology in the Enhancement of Business Practice” supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scienti?c Research (S) by Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, ... Read more

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  • Future of CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage Projects

    Analysis using a Systemic Risk Management Approach

    by Jaleh Samadi, Emmanuel Garbolino ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents a summary of a three-year research project on risk management for the Capture, Transport and Storage of CO2 (CTSC), offering an in-depth study on complex sociotechnical systems and systemic modeling. Approaching CTSC as a complex sociotechnical system, this book proposes systemic modeling as a decision-making aid. It offers a means of decision-making for the development of CTSC ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Venture Capital and the Corporate Governance of Chinese Listed Companies

    by Lin Zhang ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    State-controlled listed companies have always dominated Chinese stock markets. As a result of the rampant scandals related to them, there have been voluminous academic efforts to explore their corporate governance, underpinned by agency costs. However, these studies have yet to examine the phenomenon from the perspective of venture capital and adaptive efficiency.During the last ten years, despite ... Read more

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