Search for dissertations about: "technological innovation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 198 swedish dissertations containing the words technological innovation.
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1. Innovation and Employment in Services : The case of Knowledge Intensive Business Services in Sweden
Abstract : This is a study of innovation in Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and the impact innovation has on employment. The thesis relies on theories within the fields of "innovation in services", in particular KIBS, and "innovation and employment", taking as its point of departure the taxonomy of product and process innovation. READ MORE
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2. Evolutionary innovation : Early industrial uses of genetic engineering
Abstract : Based on an analysis of biological and economic theories of evol~tion, this dissertation first specifies evolutionary innovation and then uses it toanalyze early industrial uses of genetic engineering. Innovation refers totechnological innovation processes, i.e. series of innovative activitiesresulting in technical change. READ MORE
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3. Shape it until you make it: A conceptual foundation for efforts to analyze and shape technological innovation
Abstract : These are times of accelerating climate change and mass extinction of species on planet Earth. We are in the midst of an ecological crisis that will have profound consequences for human society and its natural environment. READ MORE
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4. Governance of innovation - deploying an architectural framework for innovation of technological systems for energy, security and defence
Abstract : Governance of innovation – deploying an architectural framework for innovation of technological systems for energy, security and defence Innovation has a great deal of attraction but is associated with serious uncertainties and downsides. It is potentially beneficial for growth, sector and industrial development and competitiveness. READ MORE
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5. The pace of innovation : Patterns of innovation in the cardiac pacemaker industry
Abstract : The PhD thesis "The Pace of Innovation" addresses the questions how patterns of innovation change over time in an industry, their consequences for competition and how institutional conditions in an industry shape determinants of patterns of innovation. Patterns of innovation mainly refer to how certain regularities in the diversity, types and locus of innovation change in an industry according to a technology and industry life cycle. READ MORE