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...

A discursive approach to technological innovation recognises that scientific and technical innovations are the products of groups of people. The subject of this paper is how this insight from the sociology of scientific knowledge can make a contribution to debates in economic geography. Principally drawing on the work of social constructionists, this approach is used to provide insights into th...

There has recently been a dramatic increase in demand for healthcare innovation. In this thesis we present a framework for analyzing a digital health innovation ecosystem in the US. Our framework consists of four key activities: innovation generation, entrepreneurial team formation, early company incubation, and validation of the core innovation. Throughout the paper we analyze the existing lit...

Aiming at the problems existing in low-carbon technology of Chinese manufacturing industries, such as irrational energy structure, lack of technological innovation, financial constraints, this paper puts forward the suggestion that the leading role of the government is combined with the roles of enterprises and market. That is, through increasing the governmental funding the adjustment of the i...

We calculate the optimal solutions of the fully heterogeneous Von Neumann expansion problem with N processes and P goods in the limit N → ∞. This model provides an elementary description of the growth of a production economy in the long run. The system turns from a contracting to an expanding phase as N increases beyond P. The solution is characterized by a universal behavior, independent of th...

Public sector organisations are increasingly becoming aware of the need to harness the innovative capacity of their employees. In the UK many public sector research institutes have put in place processes to increase the speed at which new technological innovations are exploited and commercialised. These types of initiatives have also been implemented into public sector service organisations. Fo...

Although the implementation of innovative organizational concepts is considered to be highly important for a company’s competitiveness, so far there has been little research on possible approaches to measure and monitor organizational innovations in largescale surveys. Based on an item-oriented typology of organizational innovations which serves as the precondition for a common understanding, w...

Niviola Cabrera: I think it will be remembered for focusing on social as well as technological innovation and the importance of integrating the two for better and more equitably distributed health outcomes. We’re accustomed to hearing of research and innovation regarding tangible technologies—which receive more global funding—but historically, we haven’t heard as much about the intangibles of s...