Technological Innovations Tackling Biodiversity Loss: Solutions or Misdirection?

Ontological realism: Methodology or misdirection?

In a series of papers over a period of several years Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters have offered a number of cogent criticisms of historical approaches to creating, maintaining, and applying biomedical terminologies and ontologies. And they have urged the adoption of what they refer to as a “realism-based” approach. Indeed, at times they insist that the realism-based approach not only offers c...

Recent Technological Innovations in Aquaculture

Research and Development , Technological Innovations and Diffusion

1. Importance of Permanent Innovation Activity 2. A System Dynamics Perspective of R&D and Innovation Diffusion Models 2.1. Modeling R&D Processes 2.2. Innovation Diffusion Models 3. Integrating the Models of R&D, Innovation and Diffusion 3.1. Basic Behavior of the Holistic Model 3.2. Interactions between the Stages 3.3. Pricing in the Holistic Model 4. Implications for Management Glossary Bibl...

The Politics Of Technological Innovations: Network Approaches

By now, it is well known that the essential components of technological innovation include not only production and design but also consumption and uses, not only technological-engineering and organizational-economical structures but also social and cultural processes. In fact, “innovation involves more than merely research and development or product launch” (Silverstone & Haddon, 1996, p. 44). ...

The evolutionary ecology of technological innovations

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