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Non-Technological and Non-Economic Innovations: Contributions to a Theory of Robust Innovation
No full textThere is a peculiar dissonance in innovation research. On the one hand, the label innovation is applied to almost everything: new products, processes, services, methods, techniques. Even the diffusion of innovations to all spheres of society is called innovation. On the other hand, we find that the main focus of innovation research is still on bringing technology to market. This dissonance provoked the central questions discussed at the 2nd International Conference on Indicators and Concepts of Innovation (ICICI 2008) on «Non-technological and non-economic innovations and their impact on economy» hosted by the Competence Centre for Management at the Berne School of Business and Administration: What forms and dimensions of non-technological and non-economic innovations can nonetheless be found both theoretically and empirically? What impact do these innovations have on the economy? Are there actually innovations without a non-technological and non-economic dimension, viz. purely technological or economic innovations? Consisting of selected answers to these questions, this volume presents international scholarly approaches beyond the «technology goes economic market» mainstream of innovation research. They are integrated in a theoretical framework for the analysis of socially robust innovations, i.e. innovations that succeed on more than one market and are therefore both more sustainable and more profitable. Contents: Steffen Roth: Introduction: Towards a Theory of Robust Innovation - Lukas Scheiber: Economy and Technology: About the Hard Core of Innovation and Its Future Change - Veronique Favre-Bonte/Elodie Gardet/Catherine Thevenard-Puthod: A Typology of Innovations in Retail Banking - Hardik Vachhrajani: The Role of Non-Technological Innovations in the Growth of the Engineering Industry, Economy and Society of Rajkot (India) - Hans-Werner Franz: Social Science Production or Social Innovation by Social Production of Science? - Nikolay Trofimov: Organizational and Managerial Innovations in Large Companies and Their Impact on Technological Innovations and Innovation Strategies - Alexander Kesselring: Social Innovation in Private Companies: An Exploratory Empirical Study - Jens Aderhold: Rationalities of Innovation - Jari Kaivo-oja: Integrating Innovation and Foresight Research Activities: Key Models and Challenges in Non-Technical and Non-Economic Innovation Actions - Valentina Pomazan/Lucian Petcu: Innovation Indicators for Scientific and Technical Higher Education - Hugues Jeannerat/ Olivier Crevoisier: From Proximity to Multi-Location Territorial Knowledge Dynamics: The Case of the Swiss Watch Industry
Non-technological and non-economic innovations: Contributions to a theory of robust innovation
Full text linkAlthough the label innovation is applied to almost everything, with even the diffusion of innovations to society being called innovation, innovation research remains focused on bringing technology to the economic market. This dissonance provoked the central questions discussed at the 2nd International Conference on Indicators and Concepts of Innovation (ICICI). What are non-technological and non-economic innovations? What impact do these innovations have on the economy? Are there actually purely technological or economic innovations? Consisting of selected answers to these questions, this volume presents international approaches beyond the technology to market mainstream of innovation research as well as analyses of socially robust innovations that succeed in both economic and non-economic markets and are hence more sustainable and more profitable. The 2nd ICICI has been supported by the SCOPES program of the Swiss National Science Foundation
FIGURES 1–2. 1 in Contribution to the Cimicidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna from Argentina: biology and geographical distribution
No full textFIGURES 1–2. 1, Colony of Tadarida brasiliensis at the building of the Law Faculty (National University of Rosario, Argentina). 2, Cluster with juveniles in the bat colony of Tadarida brasiliensis (National University of Rosario, Argentina)Published as part of Roth, Steffen, Hahn, Steffen, Montani, María Eugenia & Coscarón, María Del Carmen, 2023, Contribution to the Cimicidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna from Argentina: biology and geographical distribution, pp. 587-594 in Zootaxa 5323 (4) on page 589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5323.4.9, http://zenodo.org/record/821254
Everybody thinks online participation is great – for somebody else: a qualitative and quantitative analysis of perceptions and expectations of online participation in the Green Party Germany
No full textBased on a case study from the Green Party Germany, we discuss the expectations and potential effects of the introduction of new online participation opportunities. These methods are often used in hopes of drawing in a wider group of participants, but existing literature on digital inequality suggests that this is unlikely to happen. Applying a mixed methods approach, we investigate how likely the expectations related to these new opportunities are to be met. We used semi-structure interviews to draw out what effects party members think online participation will have. We then conducted a survey asking members about their plans to change their behaviour. Comparing expectations to prospective behavioural changes, we find that the high hopes of both party members and leaders – to draw in those members who currently do not engage – are likely to be disappointed. Members who are better off, better educated, and already more active, will likely benefit more than those the party hopes to engage. We argue that this is linked to the prevailing digital divide, and that those who are targeted for more participation need to be more actively addressed to achieve broader participation
Rhetorik der Hörfunkwerbung und der Stimme
No full textThe voice has a special role in radio, more than in any other medium, and the ear comes into focus like no other sensory organ. Besides the content and structure of a radio commercial, the performative part is mainly dominated by the medium of voice. The volatility of the medium and the lack of a visual component may be the reason why radio advertising has been less studied than print or TV advertising. The emer-gence of radio advertising, its thematic embedding and rhetorical elements, form the thematic framework of the actual topic in focus here: the rhetoricity of the voice. The fashions to which the (speaking) voice and speaking style are subject and how the aesthetics of voices, especially women's voices, can change will be examined here from the perspective of speech communication science
Estudo sobre a abertura e estabilidade do arco MIG na soldagem de alumínio /
Full text linkDissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico.Na soldagem MIG do alumínio, com corrente imposta e pulsada, tem-se o risco de não ocorrer a abertura do arco, devido à boa condutibilidade térmica e elétrica do alumínio e à aleatoriedade do contato do arame-eletrodo com o metal de base. Os resultados deste trabalho indicam que a geometria da ponta do arame é o principal fator de influência na abertura, mas, mesmo na condição mais crítica deste fator, que é a ponta arredondada, a abertura pode ser assegurada com o uso de uma elevada corrente de abertura. Experimentos com diferentes níveis de corrente de pulso, para arame ER4043 de 1,2 mm de diâmetro, indicam um melhor acabamento superficial do cordão depositado, e da região próxima a este, quando empregada corrente de pulso entre 160 e 200 A, sendo que, mesmo com deslocamento da tocha no sentido puxando, considerado desfavorável, os resultados são satisfatórios. O equilíbrio entre velocidade de alimentação e velocidade de fusão do arame determina a estabilidade do comprimento do arco, que, não sendo mantida, pode ocasionar fusão do arame-eletrodo com o bico de contato e enrolamento do arame no mecanismo de alimentação, ou o mergulho do arame-eletrodo na poça de fusão, provocando curto-circuito. A estabilidade do comprimento do arco pode ser conseguida através de controle sinérgico da altura do arco, operando pela modulação da freqüência de pulsos
Online participation in democratic processes: the case of the Green Party, Germany
No full textMuch of the research in the online participation area focuses on citizen participation or social movements, while the internal processes of political parties have so far been neglected. We will address this gap, focusing on the introduction of online participation methods for internal democratic decision-making processes in the Green Party Germany. Use of technology in a democratic process makes higher demands off organisation, since exclusion can delegitimize the outcome. Specifically, we investigate the launch of two new processes: a regular grass-roots survey that feeds into the policy development process, and an online verification process for members’ submission and support of proposals to the party assembly. These processes both support and challenge the strong grass-roots mentality of the party: access is maximised, while participation costs for certain groups may increase. We will discuss the expectations and conflicts related to the introduction of these new online process. In particular we will address the expected risks and opportunities of facilitating online participation, including the potential for changing or reinforcing the current experience of participation, and the risk of perpetuating biases relating to online access. The analysis is based on preliminary data, in particular observations and interviews with selected members
Präsentisches Erzählen im mediatisierten Alltag. Zeitlichkeit von Small Storys in mobiler Kommunikation
No full textDurch das Smartphone als gegenwärtiges Schlüsselmedium mediatisierter Gesellschaften ist digita-le Kommunikation zunehmend mobilisiert. Der Beitrag geht vor diesem Hintergrund der Frage nach, welche narrativen Praktiken Beteiligte ausbilden, wenn sie mittels Smartphones potenziell von überall und rund um die Uhr erzählen können. Insbesondere werden anhand empirischer Bei-spiele solche Erzählsequenzen in Mobile-Messenger-Interaktionen untersucht, in denen ein Ereig-nis schon kurz nach seinem Geschehen oder sogar simultan zu seinem Verlauf berichtet bzw. von den Beteiligten in Kollaboration erzählerisch inszeniert wird. In Rückgriff auf diskurspsychologi-sche Small-Story-Forschung einerseits (vgl. Bamberg 2004) und narratologische Zeitforschung andererseits (vgl. Genette 2010) entwickelt der Beitrag einen Zugang zu den spezifischen Zeitlich-keitsbedingungen eines präsentischen Erzählens in smartphone-basierten Interaktionen
Correction: Hauck et al. Molecular Orbital Theory—Teaching a Difficult Chemistry Topic Using a CSCL Approach in a First-Year University Course. <i>Educ. Sci.</i> 2021, <i>11</i>, 485
No full textAndreas Steffen was not included as an author in the original publication [...
Bertilia valdiviana
No full textNotes on the only known Argentinian locality of <i>Bertilia valdiviana</i> and its possible host species <p> <i>Bertilia valdiviana</i> is one of the most puzzling cimicid species for several reasons (but see Coetzee & Segerman 1992 for a similar case). First, the latest record of the species is 72 years old (Wygodzinsky 1951). Second, its host is unknown (Usinger 1966). Third, its reported habitats are highly unusual for any other cimicid species. Usinger (1966: 305), referring to “Philippi and Ross and Michelbacher” and “Wygodzinsky and Kuschel”, reported that the species occurs “under bark” and “under stones”. In an attempt to find the species, we (SR & SH) visited the locality where Wygodzinsky collected material which served as the basis of the only comprehensive redescription of the species (Wygodzinsky 1951; Usinger 1966): the El Trébol Lagoon, west of San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro (41.065S, 71.495°W), in December 2018. A search under the bark of about 40 standing or laying trunks of <i>Nothofagus</i> sp. (Nothofagaceae) yielded no specimens. Wygodzinsky (1951) also reported specimens from under stones at the foot of a rock formation and assumed that the species is associated with a bat host, because bat fecal pellets were found. This information was not mentioned by Usinger (1966), or the occurrence under rocks was mistranslated (from Spanish “roca”, Wygodzinsky 1951: 193) into occurrence under stones. We were able to locate the very rock formation (Fig. 6), found bat fecal pellets and a dead bat, but a 4 man-hours search did not result in any cimicid specimen. Nevertheless, based on the information provided by Wygodzinsky (1951) and on our inspection, an association of <i>B. valdiviana</i> to bats is very likely, and it is in accordance with the host preference of most other related cimicid species (Usinger 1966; Roth <i>et al.</i> 2019). We think this information is useful for further studies on this rare species.</p>Published as part of <i>Roth, Steffen, Hahn, Steffen, Montani, María Eugenia & Coscarón, María Del Carmen, 2023, Contribution to the Cimicidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna from Argentina: biology and geographical distribution, pp. 587-594 in Zootaxa 5323 (4)</i> on page 591, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5323.4.9, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/8212540">http://zenodo.org/record/8212540</a>
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