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Jihoon Shin, Miguel Amaral, Ana Cristina Barros, M. Granger Morgan + 1 more
This paper examines the extent to which human capital within a firm is associated with technology development. We develop and apply an original and more objective measure of technological advancement based on companies’ transitions from their current economic activity into a new one involving a higher or lower level of…
Joseph Andrew T. Pepito, Rozzano C. Locsin
The Asia-Pacific healthcare industry is expected to grow at 11.1% in 2018. This has been considered one of the fastest growing regions in the world. The positive growth occurring in the Asia-Pacific region is due to the increasing adoption of technology. While it is understood that technology drives advances in nursing…
Carole-Jean Wu, Srilatha Manne, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Sarah Bird + 1 more
'Sarah Bird' 'Shane Greenstein'] Advancements in digital technologies have a bootstrapping effect. The past fifty years of technological innovations from the computer architecture community have brought innovations and orders-ofmagnitude efficiency improvements that engender use cases that were not previously possible…
Luz V. Pascal, Iadine Chadès, Matthew P. Adams, Kate J. Helmstedt
Technology development is an essential investment for policymakers to address contemporary global crises, including climate change, biodiversity loss, the energy transition, and emergent infectious diseases. However, investing limited resources in the development of new technologies is risky. The research and…
Mario Coccia
A fundamental problem in technological studies is how to measure the evolution of technology. The literature has suggested several approaches to measuring the level of technology (or state-of-the-art) and changes in technology. However, the measurement of technological advances and technological evolution is often a…
Mary Tolikas, Ayis Antoniou, Donald E. Ingber
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University was formed based on the recognition that breakthrough discoveries cannot change the world if they never leave the laboratory. The Institute's mission is to discover the biological principles that Nature uses to build living things, and to…
Ad van den Oord, Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Sergi Lozano
In this paper, we develop an ecological, multi-level model that can be used to study the evolution of emerging technology. More specifically, by defining technology as a system composed of a set of interacting components, we can build upon the argument of multi-level density dependence from organizational ecology to…
Kiran Patil
The environmental and climate issues facing across the world are widely recognized as serious problems. Therefore, green technologies and ecological sustainable development is need of the hour as the quality of life is worsening. We have had major progress in technology causing depletion of natural life sustaining…
Erin Looney, Andre Buscariolli, Maria Yang, Geoffrey Raymond + 2 more
Hardware-based startups risk having longer times-to-market, deterring investment in critical fields such as cleantech, medical devices, and automation. We interviewed 55 leaders at hardware startups, mapped their development timelines, and found prototyping to be the longest development step (median of 19 weeks per…
Abhishek Purohit, Maninder Kaur, Zeki Can Seskir, Matthew T. Posner + 1 more
'Araceli Venegas‐Gomez'] Abstract— The emergence of quantum technologies has led to groundbreaking advancements in computing, sensing, secure communications, and simulation of advanced materials with practical applications in every industry sector. The rapid advancement of the quantum technologies ecosystem has made it…
Jae Young Choi, Seongkyoon Jeong, Jung-Kyu Jung, Li Daqing
This study investigates the temporal changes in development of technology convergence networks by institution type, i.e., public research institute (PRI), university and industry. Using the co-classification of technological domains of patents, we identified technology convergence of Korean patents, which were filed at…
Hooman Shababi
This article explores the concept of technological singularity and the factors that could accelerate or hinder its arrival. The butterfly effect is used as a framework to understand how seemingly small changes in complex systems can have significant and unpredictable outcomes. In section II, we discuss the various…
Andrew Schulz, Cassie Shriver, Anika Patka, Caroline Greiner + 5 more
The need for sustainability-minded engineers prepared to address complex societal challenges has grown exponentially in recent years. Frameworks like the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have begun to drive structural changes in engineering education, including new ABET accreditation focused on…
Lijie Feng, Qinghua Wang, Jinfeng Wang, Kuo-Yi Lin + 2 more
'Amichai Painsky'] Technology forecasting (TF) is an important way to address technological innovation in fast-changing market environments and enhance the competitiveness of organizations in dynamic and complex environments. However, few studies have investigated the complex process problem of how to select the most…
Gianluca Iazzolino, Nicole Stremlau
This article focuses on the AI for Social Good (AI4SG) movement, which aims to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). It argues that, through AI4SG, Big Tech is attempting to advance AI-driven technosolutionism within the…
Yalin Li, John Trimmer, Steven Hand, Xinyi Zhang + 6 more
The pursuit of sustainability has catalyzed broad investment in the research, development, and deployment (RD&D) of innovative water, sanitation, and resource recovery technologies, yet the lack of transparent and agile methodologies to navigate the expansive landscape of technology development pathways remains a…
Lars Gerhold, Edda Brandes
The article examines the increasingly important role played by technology in the domain of public security in Germany, illustrating its effects on social life. In order to illuminate developments that govern the adoption of security technologies and render them in their dependencies comprehensible, we present two…
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Climate change mitigation is driving growing innovation in bio-materials production technologies, with a focus on improving their environmental sustainability. This study presents a decision-support framework based on a careful integration of technical requirements, implemented in a process digital twin and life cycle…
Yue Yang, Joseph Z. Shyu
—Blockchain technology is developing using in reliable applications which can be designed to achieve decentralization and trustless. Based on the open network innovation theory, this paper proposes a technical intermediary management idea based on blockchain technology to improve the efficiency of technology…
Joaquin Luque
The concept of progress clearly percolates the activities in science, technology, economy and society. It is a driving vector (probably the main vector) of our daily activity as researchers. The #InThisGen initiative, proudly displayed in places across the University of Berkeley's campus, and its headline lemma ―what…
Lukas Küng, Silvan Aeschlimann, Charithea Charalambous, Fergus McIlwaine + 8 more
Direct air carbon capture and storage (DACCS) involves a set of approaches for capturing CO2 directly from the air and its subsequent long-term storage. DACCS is at an early stage of technical development and currently faces a variety of challenges, including high cost and energy requirements. Building on publicly…
Lukas Küng, Silvan Aeschlimann, Charithea Charalambous, Fergus McIlwaine + 8 more
Direct air carbon capture and storage (DACCS) involves a set of approaches for capturing CO2 directly from the air and its subsequent long-term storage. DACCS is at an early stage of technical development and currently faces a variety of challenges, including high cost and energy requirements. Building on publicly…