Author : 3M Company
Publisher : 3m Company
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 2002
Category : 3M Company
ISBN :
A compilation of 3M voices, memories, facts and experiences from the company's first 100 years.
Author : Holden Thorp
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1469611848
In Engines of Innovation, Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein make the case for the pivotal role of research universities as agents of societal change. They argue that universities must use their vast intellectual and financial resources to confront global challenges such as climate change, extreme poverty, childhood diseases, and an impending worldwide shortage of clean water. They provide not only an urgent call to action but also a practical guide for our nation's leading institutions to make the most of the opportunities available to be major players in solving the world's biggest problems. A preface and a new chapter by the authors address recent developments, including innovative licensing strategies, developments in online education, and the value of arts and sciences in an entrepreneurial society.
Author : David P. Billington, Jr.
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0262359685
The engineering ideas behind key twentieth-century technical innovations, from great dams and highways to the jet engine, the transistor, the microchip, and the computer. Technology is essential to modern life, yet few of us are technology-literate enough to know much about the engineering that underpins it. In this book, David P. Billington, Jr., offers accessible accounts of the key twentieth-century engineering innovations that brought us into the twenty-first century. Billington examines a series of engineering advances--from Hoover Dam and jet engines to the transistor, the microchip, the computer, and the internet--and explains how they came about and how they work.
Author : Michael A. Carrier
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 2011-02-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199794286
'Innovation For The 21st Century' contends that intellectual property and antitrust, the two most important laws fostering innovation, are not being used most effectively to achieve this goal and offers various proposals that individually and collectively remedy this deficiency.
Author : David C. Mowery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 1999-10-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521646536
In 1903 the Wright brothers' airplane travelled a couple of hundred yards. Today fleets of streamlined jets transport millions of people each day to cities worldwide. Between discovery and application, between invention and widespread use, there is a world of innovation, of tinkering, improvement and adaptation. This is the world David Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg map out in Paths of Innovation, a tour of the intersecting routes of technological change. Throughout their book, Mowery and Rosenberg demonstrate that the simultaneous emergence of new engineering and applied science disciplines in the universities, in tandem with growth in the Research and Development industry and scientific research, has been a primary factor in the rapid rate of technological change. Innovation and incentives to develop new, viable processes have led to the creation of new economic resources - which will determine the future of technological innovation and economic growth.
Author : George Constable
Publisher : Joseph Henry Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309089085
A Century of Innovation: The Engineering that Transformed Our Lives is a full-color coffee table book that details the greatest achievements of 20th-century engineering. Each chapter details one specific engineering "feat" with a discussion of the discovery's impact on society and descriptions and illustrations of how that discovery "works."
Author : Oscar Gross Brockett
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Gupta Praveen
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8121929458
Part 1: 1. History Of Innovation 2. Creativity And Innovation 3. The Conventional Tools Of Creativity 4. Innovation In The Information 5. Need For Innovation On Demand Part 2: 6. Brain Hardware And Innovation Processes 7. Framework For Innovation 8. Room
Author : Charles R. Morris
Publisher :
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1586488287
From the bestselling author of The Trillion Dollar Meltdown and The Tycoons comes the fascinating, panoramic story of the rise of American industry between the War of 1812 and the Civil War
Author : Benoît Godin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317928199
Innovation is everywhere. In the world of goods (technology), but also in the world of words: innovation is discussed in the scientific and technical literature, but also in the social sciences and humanities. Innovation is also a central idea in the popular imaginary, in the media and in public policy. Innovation has become the emblem of the modern society and a panacea for resolving many problems. Today, innovation is spontaneously understood as technological innovation because of its contribution to economic "progress". Yet for 2,500 years, innovation had nothing to do with economics in a positive sense. Innovation was pejorative and political. It was a contested idea in philosophy, religion, politics and social affairs. Innovation only got de-contested in the last century. This occurred gradually beginning after the French revolution. Innovation shifted from a vice to a virtue. Innovation became an instrument for achieving political and social goals. In this book, Benoît Godin lucidly examines the representations and meaning(s) of innovation over time, its diverse uses, and the contexts in which the concept emerged and changed. This history is organized around three periods or episteme: the prohibition episteme, the instrument episteme, and the value episteme.
