Innovation is increasingly recognized as a vitally important social and economic phenomenon worthy of serious research study. Firms are concerned about their innovation ability, particularly relative to their competitors. Politicians care about innovation, too, because of its presumed social and economic impact. However, to recognize that innovation is desirable is not sufficient. What is required is systematic and reliable knowledge about how best to influence innovation and to exploit its effects to the full.
Our principal concern in this book is to understand three important ideas: learning, technology and innovation, and to examine these ideas and the relationships between them in situ; that is, we examine a number of cases of learning technologies in action in two countries, England and Brazil. The purpose of our study is to provide an explanation of the means to, and constraints on, improvements to educational policies and practices, with particular reference to innovation.
The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
In the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan walked the earth.
What was the Renaissance? How did it begin and why? A History of the Renaissance answers these questions and more as it investigates the driving forces behind this brilliant period of artistic and scientific achievement. Discover how humanists like Petrarch pioneered the rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture and ideas, sparking an explosion of creativity and innovation. Changes abounded not only in the arts and sciences, but also in politics and religion.
Hydrocarbon Processing: Gas Processes Handbook 2012
Pages: 241
Published: 2012
This handbook showcases recent innovations in certified technologies for fuel processing, especially in the location of liquefied pure fuel (LNG). The handbook contains new systems for shale gasoline treating, synthesis gasoline creation and managing, LNG and NGL manufacturing, hydrogen technology, and other folks. Additional technological innovation matters covered consist of drying, fuel managing, liquid managing, effluent cleanup and sulfur removing.
