T policy brief examines the rejuvenation, current state, and future prospects of the Chinese defense economy. Fifteen years of reforms have turned this once lumbering holdout of autarkic central planning into an aspiring champion of technological innovation. Critical factors behind these improving fortunes include top-level leadership support, effective implementation of a well-defined developm...

Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the transfer of technology. Majority foreign-owned firms are less likely to engage in technological innova...

Healthcare changes dramatically because of technological developments, from anesthetics and antibiotics to magnetic resonance imaging scanners and radiotherapy. Future technological innovation is going to keep transforming healthcare, yet while technologies (new drugs and treatments, new devices, new social media support for healthcare, etc) will drive innovation, human factors will remain one ...

Since the invention of the automobile, cars have taken an important role in our society. Once they were available only to the wealthy few that could afford them as a luxury in life. However, today cars have become a necessity for everyone. German automobile companies like Benz, BMW, Volkswagen, Porsche and Audi are well known for their Engineering and technology. Identifying the above said fact...

Assumptions about the pace of life speeding up abound in contemporary social theory. While many factors are contributing to this phenomenon, information and communication technologies are seen as the main drivers. This article considers the way social theorists analyse the concepts of time and speed and then examines how these claims might be assessed in the light of empirical research. Such re...

Single cell gene expression studies hold great promise for deciphering the ubiquitous heterogeneity present in biological organisms. Although much progress has been made in the field, tools to study gene expression (specific and global) in single cells are generally lacking. This thesis describes the development of novel microfluidic technologies and processes capable of processing single cells...

In Europe the last two decades has witnessed growing water stress, both in terms of water scarcity and quality deterioration, which has prompted many municipalities to look for a more efficient use of water resources, including a more widespread acceptance of water reuse practices. This paper reviews European water reuse practices and sets out the map of the water reclamation technologies and r...

The purpose of this paper is to study the motivation of enterprise technological innovation. This paper analyzes the motivation sources of enterprise technological innovation, and defines five types of sources: technological driving, demands pulling, market competition driving, entrepreneur preference driving and government behavior driving. Motivation factors are classified into three aspects,...

The present study aims at investigating the role of risk in the activity of independent technological venturing. Altogether 12 deep-interviews were conducted with technological entrepreneurs, who had taken part in the inventive, developmental and the commercialisation phases of a technologybased innovation process. The interviews revealed a number of enactment approaches through which these inn...

This study extends the previous research framework—the TOE (technological, organizational, and environmental perspectives) model of technological innovation—by using a revised model—the TOIM (technological, organizational, interorganizational, and marketplace perspectives) model. The study tests additional variables, including trust (interorganizational perspective), aggregation, and service qu...