Technology innovation is the key motivation to push strategic emerging industry development. Research on key factors to influence industrial technological innovation is essential to enhance strategic emerging industrial technology innovation. This paper analyzes the various factors that influence industrial technology innovation by the fixed effects variable coefficient model. Through the expan...

Academic health centers (AHCs) now play major roles in the development, adoption, and evaluation of medical technologies; the provision of advice to other entities involved in medical innovation; and the education of current and future practitioners. However, recent and potential health care reform initiatives could make it increasingly difficult for AHCs to continue to play their historical ro...

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Innovation in infant disciplines occurs most rapidly and successfully when a large number of small groups proceed independently under the motivation of market opportunity. In a few years, a substantial fraction of the engineering work force will have a working knowledge of LSI design. At the same time, fabrication areas are becoming more and more capital intensive. What is needed is a clean, st...

BACKGROUND Studying motives of plant management allows understanding processes that originated agriculture and current forms of traditional technology innovation. Our work analyses the role of native plants in the Ixcatec subsistence, management practices, native plants biocultural importance, and motivations influencing management decisions. Cultural and ecological importance and management co...

This paper proposes a generic framework for analyzing innovation systems, anchored around five fundamental activities — R&D, implementation, end-use, education, linkage — and focused on the performance implications of a system’s structure and dynamics. Rather than simply describing the role and performance of particular actors, institutions and policies, this approach focuses on system-level ch...

Is financial innovation necessary for sustaining economic growth? To address this question, we build a Schumpeterian model in which entrepreneurs earn profits by inventing better goods and profit-maximizing financiers arise to screen entrepreneurs. The model has two novel features. First, financiers engage in the costly but potentially profitable process of innovation: they can invent better me...

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States are in the transition toward a new, knowledge-based economy. As these states diversify from a petroleum-based economy to knowledge-based industries, the countries’ competitiveness and performance increasingly will depend on their abilities to foster an indigenous capacity for technological innovation. This paper presents a broad framework for a national...

Although hemodialysis is a mature therapy, a growing population of patients with more complex medical problems and limitations on resources will require technological innovations to improve the safety, reliability and efficiency of the therapy. The past several years have seen design changes to dialyzers that have provided incremental improvements in small solute clearance and more substantial ...

In an asymmetric duopoly option game-theoretic framework, this paper investigates the firms’ strategic technological innovation investment under uncertainty. There exist three types of equilibria that can occur in the choice of the technological innovation investment strategies, namely the preemptive, sequential and simultaneous equilibrium. The occurrence of a particular type of equilibrium is...