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Inside or Out? Open or Closed? Positioning the Governance of Sustainable Technology.

Smith, Adrian; Stirling, Andy - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2006

For good or ill, technology mediates our relationships with one another and with nature. Whether an ox-drawn plough in the hands of a peasant, or remote sensing equipment feeding back data from a satellite, technology informs and shapes our place in our environments. It is therefore unsurprising...

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Organizing for Service Innovation: Best-Practice or Configurations?

Tidd, Joe; Hull, Frank - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2002

-practice framework is found to be predictive of performance improvement in samples in both the UK and USA, but the model better fits the …, processes, tools and systems which offer different performance advantages. The results provide an opportunity for updating the …

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Design Performance Measurement in the Construction Sector: A Pilot Study

Torbett, Richard; Salter, Ammon J; Gann, David M; … - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2001

This paper examines the role and deployment of design performance measurements (DPMs) in the construction industry … very little research on the use of DPMs in construction, and firms often struggle to find appropriate performance …. Other measures are needed to address quality, innovative performance and client satisfaction. In contrast to manufacturing …

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The Effect of Demand-Driven Structural Transformations on Growth and Technological Change

Lorentz, Andre; Ciarli, Tommaso; Savona, Maria; … - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2015

The paper analyses the effect of the dynamics of consumption preferences on the dynamics of macro–economic growth. We endogenously derive micro–dynamics of consumption behaviour as a result of the increase in the number of income classes. The different degrees of inertia in the adjustment of...

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Knowledge about knowledge since Nelson & Winter: a mixed record

Pavitt, Keith - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2002

Progress in our understanding of the role of knowledge in the economy, based on Nelson and Winter's book published in 1982, has been mixed. It has been greatest when their concepts have been enriched by empirical evidence, often coming from outside evolutionary economics. It has been least when...

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Constructing Success in the Electric Power Industry: Flexibility and the Gas Turbine

Watson, Jim - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2001

This paper explains the success and failure of two technologies that generate electricity from fossil fuels. Both the Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) and fluidised bed boiler burn fossil fuels more cleanly than more traditional technologies. Whereas the CCGT has been used for an increasing...

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Modelling and Measuring Scientific Production: Results for a Panel of OECD Countries

Crespi, Gustavo; Geuna, Aldo - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2005

This paper presents results from employing an econometric approach to examine the determinants of scientific production at cross-country level. The aim of this paper is not to provide accurate and robust estimates of investment elasticities (a doubtful task given the poor quality of the data...

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Prospects for Internet Telephony: Toy for Multimedia Hobbyists or Next-Generation Technology?

Corrocher, Nicoletta - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 1999

The sustained rate of technological change in the telecommunications industry has opened up significant windows of opportunities for telecommunications networks operators to develop value-added services and multimedia applications. The growth of the Internet raises the issue of a possible...

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Policy instruments as innovation in governance: the case of emissions trading

Voß, Jan-Peter - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2007

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Patterns of innovative activities in countries of Central and Eastern Europe: An analysis based on comparison of innovation surveys

Radosevic, Slavo - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 1999

This paper compares several innovation surveys from the countries of central and eastern Europe (CEECs) with the first EU innovation survey. Based on the innovation survey data it discusses the changes in the innovation activities in central and eastern Europe and points to differences and...

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