Showing papers in "Technology in Society in 2005"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed and summarized important ideas and arguments in the recent theorizing on regional innovation systems and examined such issues as (a) definition confusion and empirical validation; (b) the territorial aspect of regional innovation system; and (c) the role of institutions.

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed historical case study of the transition from surface water to piped water and personal hygiene (1870-1930) is used to analyse how these changes influenced each other in a co-evolution process.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider federal requirements to institute a research program on societal and ethical considerations of nanotechnology, and to integrate the results of this research with nanotechnology research and development.

TL;DR: An overview of the driving and impeding forces that help and hinder proper deployment of knowledge management strategies in e-commerce and a strategic approach that can overcome the limitations in systems presently in use are suggested.

TL;DR: In this article, the structural and behavioral patterns of technological innovation are idiosyncratic across industrial sectors and dynamic over time, and the authors identify patterns of relationships among industries and examine the roles of respective industries.

TL;DR: This article found that only 17% of the respondents were able to identify what nanotechnology is, with 76% of all the respondents being men, and only 5% of those who identified it were women.

TL;DR: In this paper, the benefits obtained from mergers that result in more complete product lines and integrated resources to enhance Taiwan's competitiveness are discussed. And the Grey forecasting model is used to show that Taiwan's TFT-LCD industry can expect continued growth.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the concepts of technological trajectories and lead users to forecast the future of the mobile phone Internet, which has seen substantial growth in Japan and Korea and to a lesser extent in Europe, the US and other parts of Asia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine some of the issues associated especially with the second "broader impacts" criterion and propose a new set of criteria for the assessment of National Science Foundation proposals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors classified the impacts of science and technology on international affairs, especially those of information and communication technologies, and classified them into four main mechanisms: (1) changing the architecture of the international system: its structure, its key organizing concepts, and the relations among its actors; (2) creating new issue areas, new constraints and trade-offs in the operational environment of foreign policy, a term which includes not only political constraints on international action, but also constraints imposed by the laws of natural and social science; and (3) providing a source of changed perceptions

TL;DR: An assessment of the hazard posed by this method of storage is presented in this paper, where the authors evaluate the potential for leakage in a confined space, such as that from a vehicle parked in a garage, which may cause severe damage to property and human health.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the social constitution of NST and highlight unintended consequences and the interests of those who own and control new technologies, and argue that consideration of the present-day issues surrounding NST is essential if the public debate is to move forwards.

TL;DR: In this article, a framework for technology development is articulated and brought to bear on the information available on Poland's technological status particularly as a member of the European Union, and a technology strategy is recommended to enable Poland to build competences to deal with the emerging challenges and opportunities in a highly competitive international environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the diffusion literature and highlight the limitations associated with retrospective population models of diffusion that tend to emphasize success and innovation whilst ignoring diffusion failure or re-invention.

TL;DR: In the early 1960s, India's space program was mainly science-oriented; in the 1970s it progressed to technological experimentation and learning, in the 1980s the emphasis was on achieving threshold capabilities in satellite and rocket technologies; and in the 1990s the focus shifted to commercialisation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Adaption-Innovation (A-I) theory of Kirton is reviewed and placed into the context of science in order to highlight its potential contributions and possible limitations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a patent ambush strategy for the US standards development process and present an SDO policy framework to eliminate the use of the patent ambush strategies by future standards-setting participants.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the two fields of technology and explore which standards' characteristics increase system flexibility, and examine whether flexibility objectives in both fields differ, and what constitutes a flexible standard.

TL;DR: Math-in-practice research as discussed by the authors identifies some of its shortcomings for guiding educational content and pedagogy, including its focus on occupations and practices known to involve little math, its use of stereotypical conceptions of math, and its reliance on surveys and worker self-report.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the implications of China's membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO), specifically the opportunities, challenges, and suitable strategies for US companies that are currently or will become involved in China's telecommunications market.

TL;DR: The metaphysics of technology has been analyzed in this article, where the author analyzes the principal characteristics of technology: rationality, materiality, accumulation, process, and method, and discusses how free choice plays a role in technology, since all technologies emanate from one metaphysical principle: an openness to being.

TL;DR: In this article, the main issues identified for the government are the improvement of partnership readiness of local firms and the lowering of linkage costs between FDI and local firms, and they showed that liberalization policies for FDI in Indonesia, especially in the Batam bonded zone, have not led to abovementioned benefits.

TL;DR: The development of national programs directed toward the understanding, potential use, and response to WMDs by the United States, Japan and the Soviet Union are reviewed and compared, as are the international agreements that have thus far addressed the possible use of such weapons as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the structure, issues and challenges of urban security in the US and discussed the parts played by Federal and State governments, NGOs and the private sector, the organization of cities' emergency response and consequence management.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a framework for examining the development of the technological capability in a telecommunications firm after privatization, which is based on the value chain concept, which identifies the primary and support activities of a telecommunication service provider.

TL;DR: The authors assesses the investment efficiency of military expenditures to enhance military critical technologies and applies a systems approach to analyze myths that attempt to explain investment efficiencies that ultimately fail to materialize.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the democratic content of these politics using insights from both political philosophy and actor network theory, and showed that in most of the issues in the case, the circumstances impinged on a sense of justice for the company, or its customers, or interest groups, while posing a political problem for the city council.

TL;DR: The Bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccine (BCG) remains one of the most widely used vaccines against infectious disease since it first appeared in the early 1900s as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the question of technology and the good life is considered, and a strong thematic connection between Borgmann's thought and Japanese practices influenced by Zen Buddhism is made.