Utilities: Innovation and Sustainability

Sustainability - Oriented Innovation

Achieving Economic Sustainability Through Innovation

The current economic instability is the result of under regulated markets built on an ideology of free market capitalism and unlimited economic growth. Since the onset of industrialization and conceptualization of economic theories various externalities are not considered as a part of economy. They were assumed to be relatively small and solvable. The consequences that declare an economic model...

Encouraging Innovation in Locating and Characterizing Underground Utilities

T Common Ground Alliance estimates that there are 35 million miles of underground utilities in the United States. That’s about the same as the distance between Earth and Mars. Every day, utilities made of less-detectable materials are installed deeper underground. Much of the existing data on utility location, composition, ownership, and status (that is, whether active or abandoned) is missing,...

FET 11 Innovation , sustainability and ICT

Is the Innovation Society sustainable? We argue that the way in which our society organizes its innovation processes generates endogenous crises, and the ideology that sustains this organization makes it difficult to confront this meta-crisis economically or politically. We claim that the key to constructing a socially sustainable future is the mobilization of civil society, with respect to two...

Innovation and Sustainability with Gold Cards

An XP team delivers what the customer asks for and is collectively responsible for successful delivery. This can lead to two problems. The first is technical: there can be a lack of innovation because the customer does not necessarily explore options that are technically possible but not currently required. Consequently, cutting-edge knowledge may be slowly lost from the team. The second is per...