Technology shifts are lethal to many manufacturing companies. Previous research indicates that this is not purely a problem of technological innovation, but is also closely related to the inertia of business models and business model innovation. This paper inquires into the dynamics of this intersection between technology and business models. Anchored in a case study in the automotive industry,...

Organic agriculture is a sustainable cultivation ecologically, economically and socially. Several researches in organic agriculture have been made from technical perspectives, economic traits or related to ecological aspects. There are practically no investigations into the nature of the technology used in organic agriculture, especially from an ergonomic perspective. From the activity analysis...

On November 3-4, 2011, the Symposium RNA Science and its Applications: A look toward the Future was held at the University at Albany-SUNY in the capital of New York State. Unique to this Symposium's format were panel discussions following each of the four platform sessions: RNA Technological Innovation: Analysis, Delivery, Nanotechnologies, IT; Infectious and other diseases: The future of small...

Introduction After the Second World War, many countries have found the increasing need for progressive technology as a major means of achieving a competitive edge in the marketplace and also for effective welfare. It was not only under-developed countries that focused on this emerging phenomena, but many advanced nations which had been devastated during the War, tried to achieve the highest lev...

As the time between initial concept and commissioning of submarine cable systems decreases, the need for automated tools and procedures to facilitate the acceleration of the route and cable engineering processes increases. Cable installers are now faced with more projects and less time to design, engineer, and install these systems. These increased demands mean that, in many cases, traditional ...

In this paper, the linearly conforming enriched radial basis point interpolation method is implemented for the elasto-plastic analysis of discontinuous medium. The linear conformability of the method is satisfied by the application of stabilized nodal integration and the enrichment of radial basis functions is achieved by the addition of linear polynomial terms. To implement the method for the ...

In this paper, we define and focus on one of the vitally important challenges of accelerating radical innovation. This challenge is the critical need for nearly instantaneous access to information which influences or impacts accelerated radical innovation. Without information enhancement, radical innovation will undergo considerably less than the 10X, or more, improvements in time and effective...

A variety of protein domain predictors were developed to predict protein domain boundaries in recent years, but most of them cannot predict discontinuous domains. Considering nearly 40% of multidomain proteins contain one or more discontinuous domains, we have developed DomEx to enable domain boundary predictors to detect discontinuous domains by assembling the continuous domain segments. Disco...