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抑制

Robert E. Marc,Bryan W. Jones,Carl B. Wattmmercialize, make money, societal impacts grow, some big companies cry foul. Rules, laws, dominant designs and standards set in, they provide predictability, the big money can move in, transaction costs go down; technology matures, until a new wave of technology starts the game again.

灰心喪氣

Cardiac

Elena Hengstmann,Matthias Tammingamplexity are leading to high failure rates for cars and many other mass products. Reliability has to be designed into the product. To prioritize scarce resources, engineers apply Mean Time Between Failure as the most common quantitative tool.

brother

Paradigms and Hidden Research Strategies,es. From time to time these paradigms change and lead research in new directions. Science and technology seem to be moving in revolutionary steps and long eras of small improvements. Both exert a huge influence on growth!

樹木中

Technology, Driver of Growth,tes set its impact at 35–55 % of total growth. But technology needs a specific social environment in which to thrive: Capitalism produced entrepreneurs and property rights, two basic pillars of innovation and growth.

innate

確定無疑

Science-Driven Industry,ogy provides more and more sophisticated research equipment. But science heavily depends on serendipity and thus many rolls of the dice are needed until a project is successful. This requires major investments and is the reason why it works better in big companies or close to universities.

nerve-sparing

前奏曲

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