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Large scale societal transitions in the past

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina; Hausknost, Daniel - WWWforEurope - 2014

WP 201 takes a historical perspective in analysing past systemic social-ecological transition processes. The research paper (MS 27) emerging from task 201.2 explores two major energy transitions of the past: the transition to the use of fossil fuels (e.g. starting with coal in the UK in the 17th...

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Optimization Techniques - Genetic Programming in education

BARDASUC, Leila; POPESCU, Andrei; POPESCU, Andrei - In: Alma Mater University journal 7 (2014) 1, pp. 14-18

to put these new technologies, and especially the genetic programming, face to face with the educational process, to see …

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Seeking legitimacy with ‘best practices’ for ICT in higher education facilities projects

Mukherjee, Anouk - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

carried by students and teaching staff alike. The emerging pedagogical practices based on new technologies have pushed higher … their industry for guidance on how to produce new higher educational spaces incorporating new technologies. This process of …

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THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY IN A NEW TEHNOLOGICAL ERA

ALBULESCU, Simona Catalina; PUCÃREA, Anca Alexandra; … - In: SEA - Practical Application of Science (2014) 5, pp. 99-106

The business world is changing at an impressive speed: the global financial crisis, challenging markets, technology and talent crisis have a major impact on business. The last century can be associated with the triumph of the automobile industry. At the beginning of the 21st century the...

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The contribution of academic research to innovation and growth

Veugelers, Reinhilde - WWWforEurope - 2014

To better understand how academic research can contribute to innovative growth and to assess how Europe is and could be doing in this respect, we review the analysis and evidence of business science links and Europe’s record on this. The evidence and analysis shows that the link between...

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What innovation policies for ecological transition? Powering the green innovation machine

Veugelers, Reinhilde - WWWforEurope - 2014

In this contribution we describe how green policies should be designed to activate private innovation forces for ecological transitions. We look at the evidence on the current deployment of green policies and the current performance of the private green innovation machine. We try to assess how...

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Agricultural adaptation to climate change in rich and poor countries: Current modeling practice and potential for empirical contributions

Hertel, Thomas W.; Lobell, David B. - In: Energy Economics 46 (2014) C, pp. 562-575

, distinguishing: (a) those that can be undertaken with existing technology, (b) those that involve development of new technologies …

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Anticipation of new technologies: supply chain antecedents and competitive performance

Beheregarai Finger, Andrew; B. Flynn, Barbara; … - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 34 (2014) 6, pp. 807-828

advantage through acquiring new technologies and the capability to use them, in advance of actual need. The theoretical …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose and empirically validates a measure of the anticipation of new … technologies (ANT) construct, first suggested by Hayes and Wheelwright (1984). ANT allows establishment of a sustained competitive …

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Anticipation of new technologies : supply chain antecedents and competitive performance

Finger, Andrew Beheregarai; Flynn, Barbara Bechler; … - In: International journal of operations & production … 34 (2014) 6, pp. 807-828

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Older Workers and the Adoption of New Technologies

Meyer, Jenny - 2007

between the age structure of the workforce and the probability of adopting new technologies. The results show that firms with … a higher share of younger employees are more likely to adopt new technologies and the older the workforce the less … likely is the adoption of new technologies. Furthermore the results exhibit that the age structure of the workforce should be …

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