Technological glasnost

Letter from Moscow: complementary medicine under glasnost.

The inability of the Soviet medical services to cope adequately with the health needs of the general population is widely recognised and discussed at various levels. There are many reasons for this, both traditional and non-traditional, but they are to a large extent based on the concept that your life should be spared for future generations. One ofthe most interesting and obscure phenomena und...

Glasnost: Enabling End Users to Detect Traffic Differentiation

Holding residential ISPs to their contractual or legal obligations of “unlimited service” or “network neutrality” is hard because their trafficmanagement policies are opaque to end users and governmental regulatory agencies. We have built and deployed Glasnost, a system that improves network transparency by enabling ordinary Internet users to detect whether their ISPs are differentiating betwee...

Virtual anthropology (VA): a call for glasnost in paleoanthropology.

The adventurous scientist, with a hat protecting him from the fierce sun as he travels from one remote place to another, hunting for fossils of our ancestors, has been a part of the romantic imagination associated with anthropological research in the 20th Century. This picture of the paleoanthropologist still retains a grain of truth. Indeed, many new sites were discovered under troublesome con...

Technological Change and Technological Strategy

Non-technological and Technological Innovation: Strange Bedfellows?

Non-technological innovation is an important element of firms’ innovation activities that both supplement and complement technological innovation, i.e. the introduction of new products and new processes. We analyse the spread of nontechnological innovation in firms, their relation to technological innovation, and their effects to firm performance and success with product and process innovation,...