TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION ADOPTION MODEL FOR CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS

Presenting a Model for Evaluating Technological Innovation Capability for Attaining Turbocharge Technology

Recent evolutions in World Trade Organization (WTO) and other international trading agreements have made industries all around the world face a new era of intense global competition. Simultaneously with increased competitive pressure, permanent development and innovation comprise building blocks of firm excellence. In a dynamic environment, failure to innovate ends up with business stagnation a...

A Proposed “model for Adoption” of High Technology Products (robots) for Indian Construction Industry

Construction industry is considered as labour intensive, having shortage of skilled labour, unsafe with large number of industrial accidents. Construction industry requires high technology automation products (Robots) for improving productivity, safety, quality etc. Robots are developed by various countries in different areas like demolition, earthwork, bridge, tunnels, road work, underwater wo...

Prizes for Technological Innovation

Science, technology, and innovation are essential to America’s continued economic growth, and can help achieve a wide range of national and global policy objectives. One currently underutilized tool for stimulating technological innovation is inducement prizes, which encourage efforts by contestants to accomplish a particular goal. A related policy instrument is an Advanced Market Commitment, u...

Strategic Technology Adoption under Technological Uncertainty

Technological Innovation

This paper considers how manufacturing companies within the supply chain are increasingly expected to provide technologically innovative solutions, rather than simple components. Large global companies are becoming system builders, but as they devolve greater responsibility for technology to suppliers, they are also squeezing cost and timescales. Planning for specific future technology requirem...