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  1. Technology and the market
    demand, users and innovation
    Published: c2001
    Publisher:  Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, U.K

    The interplay between demand from the market, the role of users in shaping that demand, and the way in which these factors influence the innovation process has always been a complex one. This work examines this interplay from a technological change... more

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    The interplay between demand from the market, the role of users in shaping that demand, and the way in which these factors influence the innovation process has always been a complex one. This work examines this interplay from a technological change perspective. The contributors explore the potential for "rapprochement" between economics, sociological and other social science disciplines in considering the allocation of resources and the making of decisions about technological change. The papers within this book represent a judicious blend of theory and empirical research and look at a broad ra

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1840644699; 9781840644692
    Series: ASEAT conference proceedings series
    Subjects: High technology industries; New products; High technology industries
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xii, 307 p), ill, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Many visible hands; 3. Great expectations: the construction of markets, products and user needs during the early development of gene therapy in the USA; 4. Reconceptualiszing the user(s) of - and in - tehcnological innovation: the case of vaccines in the United States; 5. Inducement and blocking mechanisms in the development of a new industry: the case of renewable energy technology in Sweden; 6. Shaping the selection environment: 'chlorine in the dock'

    7. When markets meet socio-politics: the introduction of chlorine -free bleaching in the Swedish pulp and paper industry8. Internet market applications in ship-broking: a framework and research findings; 9. Internet entrepreneurship: why Linux might beat Microsoft; 10. Design in the IT industry: the role of users; 11. How innovative are users? A critique of learning-by-doing and -using; 12. Taste as a form of adjustment between food and consumers; 13. Services and innovation: demand-led changes in business organizations

    14. The missing link: innovation and the needs of less-developed country usersIndex