Engineering -- 1: Strength Properties of Lightweight Foamed Concrete Incorporating Waste Paper Sludge Ash and Recycled Concrete Aggregate -- 2: Investigation of Cutting Edge Radius Effect in Macro-machining and Micro-machining -- 3: Clay Stabilization Using OPC and Bottom Ash as Additives -- 4:...

Introduction -- Research Flyover -- Design Science - The Science of the Artificial -- Design Science Research -- Class of Problems and Artifacts -- Proposal for Conducting Researches by using a Design.

Joachim Jan Thraen uses insights from history to provide a fresh perspective on China’s potential transition towards a global innovation leader. He applies historical evidence from countries like the United States, Germany, and Japan in the 19th and 20th century and builds on results from four...

Innovationen als treibende Kräfte für die Entwicklung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft -- Neuerungen in der Wirtschaft: Das Konzept „Innovation“, wirtschaftliche Dynamik und Innovationsprozesse in Netzwerken -- Erfindungen, Schutzstrategien und volkswirtschaftliche Auswirkungen -- Diffusion...

The Geography of Small Firm Innovation offers a unique look at the importance of geographic proximity to the innovative activity of high-tech small firms. The book explores the concentration of innovation across metropolitan areas in the United States during the 1990s, by introducing a novel...

To explain the importance of scientific research and technological innovation for industrial countries and in particular for the EU, in order to improve or to maintain economic leadership, is the central idea of this volume. It starts with a historical and theoretical perspective on...

The Korean government believes it can turn the country into one of the top 10 competitive economies by 2010. This volume offers an in-depth analysis of the Korean innovation system and shows how its science and technology policies actually work. As Korea's economy is now reaching the status of a...

The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now. In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused one hundred thousand cancer cases and thousands of deaths. Many millions...