Showing papers in "Technology in Society in 2009"

TL;DR: The concept of knowledge-business intensive services (KIBSs) has been in use for more than 15 years and has recently become an important subject of analysis and empirical investigation as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined 1000 Taiwanese cases in which firms included their RD they also identified their charitable expenditures as contributions to CSR and found that while CSR does not have much positive impact on short-term financial performance, it does offer a remarkable long-term fiscal advantage.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore methodologies that can help improve the study of agricultural innovation processes and their role in transforming agriculture, including social network analysis, innovation histories, cross-country comparisons, and game-theory modeling.

TL;DR: Appropriate technologies (AT) are only a fraction of the solution in achieving sustainable and safe access to water and sanitation worldwide as mentioned in this paper, and traditional engineering approaches need to be augmented with more flexible trial and error techniques, user participation, and multi-disciplinary collaborative learning in order to create innovative solutions and empower impoverished communities to achieve their own development goals.

TL;DR: In an effort to make the social dimensions of energy conversion and use more visible, the authors investigates the cultural barriers to energy efficiency technologies and devices and renewable power generators in the United States.

TL;DR: In this article, a technology assessment for clean power generation in the Pacific Northwest is presented, in which two types of technologies are considered: one is for a renewable energy source (wind) and the other is for traditional, fossil fuel based energy sources (coal).

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of socio-economic factors on women's access to information and communication technology education and training in a rural South African environment and recommends strategies for improved access to ICT education was discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how innovations can change the relation between multiple socio-technical systems and find a pattern where the presence of more than one regime seems to offer extra opportunities during the early phase, but creates barriers further along the innovation path.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the competitive advantage of Chinese software parks for promoting industrial development and showed that these industry clusters provide competitive advantage because they are rooted in local institutional systems.

TL;DR: A survey was conducted in two cities in Chile to determine the perceptions and use of information technology (IT) by people of different ages and genders, and from different social classes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined possible reasons for the low adoption of solar water heaters and drain water heat recovery (DWHR) systems in houses in Guelph, Ontario.

TL;DR: In this paper, the loss of reserve, a critical component of privacy, caused by technological advances, is discussed and the negative impact of technology on reserve is examined, along with the need for meaningful societal discourse regarding the role of technology in our everyday lives.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented an analytic framework for analyzing innovations in the IT industries of India and China, based on the concept of a national system of innovation as a policy framework for studying innovations in India's and China's IT industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative technology assessment and roadmapping process is used to examine key characteristics for leading electricity generation technologies and predict trends in cost reduction and growth potential, as well as resource integration strategies to minimize cost and environmental damage.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify industrial clusters in the Korean manufacturing sector using patent citation relationships as a proxy for disembodied knowledge flow and construct an inter-cluster knowledge network to identify the roles of each cluster in the overall knowledge flows.

TL;DR: A mapping methodology for scanning tunnelling microscopy in the liquid phase with two possible applications and can be used instrumentally, to improve valorisation of scientific research, but also reflexively, to enable scientists to gain a better understanding of the possible societal contexts of their work.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed that ICT is expected to trigger co-evolution that will lead to sustainable development in BRICs by means of effective utilization of potential resources.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ a theory of two-party democracies from political science and the theory of sociotechnical frames to explain why Boeing pilots are allowed ultimate command of their aircraft whereas Airbus confers this authority to the flight computer.

TL;DR: In this paper, a fuzzy-based clustering methodology was used to discover technology trends in the Turkish textile industry and the most promising sub-sectors in the textile industry can be determined.

TL;DR: The authors investigates the Canadian debate over nuclear waste management, showing how proponents of deep geological disposal have reframed the debate and reconfigured the moral context, and broaches broader questions of how relations of trust are built out of situations in which trust does not exist.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a framework for understanding risk from the perspective of technological innovation and change, which tends to affect several dimensions of society at the same time, including increased mobility of people and goods, magnitude and concentration of humans, speed and depth of change in the risk landscape, public to private shifts in the ownership of risk, and the role played by expectations and perception to risk.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored technological innovations and industry clustering in the bicycle industry in Taiwan and found that clustering not only decreases transaction costs among the firms in the cluster but also increases cooperation and efficiency between the bicycle manufacturers and their partners as a result of standardization and modularization of bicycle components.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether activities related to the patenting of inventions impede or are in conflict with the academic performance of university professors, particularly the publication or the production of public knowledge.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the best use of technologies to assist people in critical living conditions and provide examples to underline how their sustainability is crucial to achieving real development in a specified location.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the connotations of each term and their interrelationships, and argue that the development of various processes of disembedding prepares the way for a compensatory construction commonly called networking.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed the concept of application capability of e-business from a process-oriented perspective, and investigated the impact of the application capability on the relationship between E-business resources and enterprise competitiveness.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine seawater desalination technology and projects that could help solve water disputes that have been exacerbating relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors, while water conflicts are not the chief cause of tension in the area, they make achieving peace more difficult.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how cell phones and text messaging have influenced people's daily life and changed their ways of communication and interaction, and how the prevalence of this technology will in turn have an even greater impact on daily life in China.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the changing role of M&As in Japanese firms, and also consider the role of Web 2.0 and Enterprise2.0 in the innovation process.