response programs to help reduce peaks in customer electric loads. CPP is a tariff design to promote demand response. Levels of … automation in DR can be defined as follows: Manual Demand Response involves a potentially labor-intensive approach such as …

design led approach to innovation to assist medical device companies develop new services and experiences and reshape their … emerging economies. The contribution of this work in advancing research into design innovation and future research directions … longer provide competitive advantage in markets based on different cost and value differentials. A shift in design practices …

in small and medium enterprises has led to the development and implementation of design innovation programs, with many … western countries investing in design innovation programs for better firm performance. This paper investigates how firms … respond to a design innovation program and engage in continuous innovation, doing more business with a focused less diverse …

The aim of this paper is to examine the nature of informationsystems (IS) design as situated in its organizational …, social issues, or politicalissues in isolation from the context of the design initiative. Recentwork in situated action and … social cognition provides a basis for amore integrated understanding of situated IS design.Findings from a participant …

maintenance performance of offsite and in situ bathrooms for student accommodation. Design/methodology/approach – The paper … areas. The main causes of the problems included inappropriate design; poor build workmanship, lack of quality of component … can only be achieved through better design for maintenance with clients' aspiration embodied. The findings should assist …

ways of conceiving innovation and practising it (Bruce, 2007). These new ways need to be catalyzed from a design education … innovation and entrepreneurship. It compares a current curriculum in product design with a new speculative curriculum, discusses …-diversity, social inequality and injustice, organized crime and violence and corruption, from food systems to politics. Design makes a …

A review of extant literature reveals various theories on innovation, including technology push, market pull, and an …’s competitive environment. An integrated view of innovation has emerged that synthesizes the variables in previous approaches …. However, the application of this view has been restricted to investigating the innovation processes within the computer and …

Advancement in biotechnology requires continued innovative activity by firms. To grow, biotechnology firms must … development of policies promoting one's biotechnology sector. This study explores factors which determine innovative activity … within the Canadian biotechnology industry. Innovative activity is measured as the natural log of the number of products …

The paper studies the changes in the market and company structure of the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industry. The …

independently. The fourth paper analyzes key issues and trends in health biotechnology firms’ transition to innovation in China …This thesis explores health technology innovation within indigenous enterprises in China, India, and Brazil. The main … discussions are presented in five papers/manuscripts. The first is a case study of Brazil’s health biotechnology sector. It …