Innovating Genesis

Author : Emily Abbey,Rainer Diriwächter
Publisher : IAP
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781607528852

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Innovating Genesis by Emily Abbey,Rainer Diriwächter Pdf

Cultural psychology is currently in a phase of rapid growth. Innovating Genesis is an example of how the most central aspect of any science—its methodology—undergoes revolutionary transformation. Yet in this book we see careful continuity with the past of the discipline. The orientation to study processes of emergence was well prepared by the Ganzheitspsychologie tradition in early twentieth century. If we all have learned something about the world since then it is the inevitable quality of the whole that transcends its parts. Scientists have tried to grasp the general notion of such wholes—yet recurrently regressing to the easy illusion that one can reduce the complexities of the in vivo events to the scrutinizes in vitro. By looking to the history of how holistic ideas might help our present investigations, this book demonstrates how contemporary science has something to learn from its own history. The editors of this volume have managed to bring together a creative international team of scholars whom they have guided to be on target of the content matter of the book—innovating the genesis of the methods for the study of psychological emergence.

Author : B. Laperche,Dimitri Uzunidis,G. N. Von Tunzelmann
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781848442856

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The Genesis of Innovation by B. Laperche,Dimitri Uzunidis,G. N. Von Tunzelmann Pdf

The genesis and diffusion of innovation depends upon the density of the cognitive and market relationships among individuals, organisations and institutions at both the micro- and macro-economic level. This book presents a progressive enquiry into the economic and social origins of innovation.

Author : Luis Perez-Breva
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262536127

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Innovating by Luis Perez-Breva Pdf

Discover the MIT-developed, “doer’s approach” to innovation with this guide that reveals you don’t need an earth-shattering idea to create a standout product, service, or business—just a hunch that you can scale up to impact. Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there’s very little out there about how you actually innovate. Innovation and entrepreneurship are not one and the same, although aspiring innovators often think of them that way. They are told to get an idea and a team and to build a show-and-tell for potential investors. In Innovating, Luis Perez-Breva describes another approach—a doer’s approach developed over a decade at MIT and internationally in workshops, classes, and companies. He shows that innovating doesn’t require an earth-shattering idea; all it takes is a hunch. Anyone can do it. By prototyping a problem and learning by being wrong, innovating can be scaled up to make an impact. As Perez-Breva demonstrates, “nothing is new” at the outset of what we only later celebrate as innovation. In Innovating, the process—illustrated by unique and dynamic artwork—is shown to be empirical, experimental, nonlinear, and incremental. You give your hunch the structure of a problem. Anything can be a part. Your innovating accrues other people’s knowledge and skills. Perez-Breva describes how to create a kit for innovating, and outlines questions that will help you think in new ways. Finally, he shows how to systematize what you’ve learned: to advocate, communicate, scale up, manage innovating continuously, and document—“you need a notebook to converse with yourself,” he advises. Everyone interested in innovating also needs to read this book.

Author : Venkatesh Narayanamurti,Jeffrey Y. Tsao
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780674251854

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The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions by Venkatesh Narayanamurti,Jeffrey Y. Tsao Pdf

Research powers innovation and technoscientific advance, but it is due for a rethink, one consistent with its deeply holistic nature, requiring deeply human nurturing. Research is a deeply human endeavor that must be nurtured to achieve its full potential. As with tending a garden, care must be taken to organize, plant, feed, and weedÑand the manner in which this nurturing is done must be consistent with the nature of what is being nurtured. In The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions, Venkatesh Narayanamurti and Jeffrey Tsao propose a new and holistic system, a rethinking of the nature and nurturing of research. They share lessons from their vast research experience in the physical sciences and engineering, as well as from perspectives drawn from the history and philosophy of science and technology, research policy and management, and the evolutionary biological, complexity, physical, and economic sciences. Narayanamurti and Tsao argue that research is a recursive, reciprocal process at many levels: between science and technology; between questions and answer finding; and between the consolidation and challenging of conventional wisdom. These fundamental aspects of the nature of research should be reflected in how it is nurtured. To that end, Narayanamurti and Tsao propose aligning organization, funding, and governance with research; embracing a culture of holistic technoscientific exploration; and instructing people with care and accountability.

Author : Hyung Min Kim,Soheil Sabri,Anthony Kent
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780128188873

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Smart Cities for Technological and Social Innovation by Hyung Min Kim,Soheil Sabri,Anthony Kent Pdf

Smart Cities for Technological and Social Innovation establishes a key theoretical framework to understand the implementation and development of smart cities as innovation drivers, in terms of lasting impacts on productivity, livability and sustainability of specific initiatives. This framework is based on empirical analysis of 12 case studies, including pioneer projects from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and more. It explores how successful smart cities initiatives nurture both technological and social innovation using a combination of regulatory governance and private agency. Typologies of smart city-making approaches are explored in depth. Integrative analysis identifies key success factors in establishing innovation relating to the effectiveness of social systems, institutional thickness, governance, the role of human capital, and streamlining funding of urban development projects. Cases from a range of geographies, scales, social and economic contexts Explores how smart cities can promote technological and social innovation in terms of direct impacts on livability, productivity and sustainability Establishes an integrative framework based on empirical evidence to develop more innovative smart city initiatives Investigates the role of governments in coordinating, fostering and guiding innovations resulting from smart city developments Interrogates the policies and governance structures which have been effective in supporting the development and deployment of smart cities

Author : Dimitri Uzunidis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119779384

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Systemic Innovation by Dimitri Uzunidis Pdf

Author : Rosemarie Sokol Chang
Publisher : IAP
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607522584

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Relating to Environments by Rosemarie Sokol Chang Pdf

Jakob von Uexkull founded Umwelt research with a clear idea – that humans are not qualitatively different than other species. Umwelt, literally “outer-world”, is the study of the organism in relation to the world around it, as well as the meaning that the world holds for that organism. Thus the world is a truly subjective place. While von Uexkull’s theory has entered into the social sciences via semiotics, and biology via ethology, the authors of these chapters go between and beyond these disciplines to examine everything from cells to spiders to humans and culture. The authors adopt the framework of Umwelt theory to examine unique aspects of the natural world by relating the inner world of the subject and the objects to which that organism attends.

Author : Olga Dolinina,Alexander Brovko,Vitaly Pechenkin,Alexey Lvov,Vadim Zhmud,Vladik Kreinovich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030120726

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Recent Research in Control Engineering and Decision Making by Olga Dolinina,Alexander Brovko,Vitaly Pechenkin,Alexey Lvov,Vadim Zhmud,Vladik Kreinovich Pdf

This book constitutes the full papers and short monographs developed on the base of the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technologies: Information and Communication Technologies for Research and Industry (ICIT-2019), held in Saratov, Russia in February 2019. The book brings accepted papers which present new approaches and methods of solving problems in the sphere of control engineering and decision making for the various fields of studies: industry and research, ontology-based data simulation, smart city technologies, theory and use of digital signal processing, cognitive systems, robotics, cybernetics, automation control theory, image recognition technologies, and computer vision. Particular emphasis is laid on modern trends, new approaches, algorithms and methods in selected fields of interest. The presented papers were accepted after careful reviews made by at least three independent reviewers in a double-blind way. The acceptance level was about 60%. The chapters are organized thematically in several areas within the following tracks: • Models, Methods & Approaches in Decision Making Systems • Mathematical Modelling for Industry & Research • Smart City Technologies The conference is focused on development and globalization of information and communication technologies (ICT), methods of control engineering and decision making along with innovations and networking, ICT for sustainable development and technological change, and global challenges. Moreover, the ICIT-2019 served as a discussion area for the actual above-mentioned topics. The editors believe that the readers will find the proceedings interesting and useful for their own research work.

Author : Carole Carlson
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781071811634

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Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation by Carole Carlson Pdf

Mission-driven ventures have the power to change the world and solve today’s most pressing social problems. Social Entrepreneurship equips students with the theories, models, tools, and templates they need to generate ideas and shape opportunities into impactful social enterprises. Author Carole Carlson uses a variety of real-world examples, cases, and profiles to illustrate how entrepreneurs around the world are changing their communities. Exercises allow students to practice developing their entrepreneurial skillset as they learn the fundamentals of structuring, financing, marketing, and scaling social ventures. Whatever social cause your students are passionate about, they will find Social Entrepreneurship a vital resource for making their vision a reality.

Author : Wido Th. van Peursen,Janet Dyk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004215184

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Tradition and Innovation in Biblical Interpretation by Wido Th. van Peursen,Janet Dyk Pdf

This volume in honour of Eep Talstra focusses on the function of tradition in the formation and reception of the Bible, and the role of the innovations brought about by ICT in reconsidering existing interpretations of texts, grammatical concepts, and lexicographic practices.

Author : Thomas Parke Hughes
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Inventions
ISBN : 0140097414

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American Genesis by Thomas Parke Hughes Pdf

American Genesis is the story of America's love affair-and inextricable entaglement-with technology from 1870-1970, the greatest period of productivity the world has ever known.

Author : Sabina Jeschke,Ingrid Isenhardt,Frank Hees,Sven Trantow
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642245039

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Enabling Innovation by Sabina Jeschke,Ingrid Isenhardt,Frank Hees,Sven Trantow Pdf

The capability to innovate in an on-going manner is emerging as a decisive key factor in today's world of business and work. The ability to stay competitive is becoming identical with the ability to innovate. This book originated from the research and development project “International Monitoring” and outlines the topic of innovative capability from a practice-oriented angle. Contributions of German and international experts offer an enlightening glimpse behind the scenes of innovations. The central issue is not the description of features of successful innovation processes or how innovations can be efficiently controlled and managed, but under which conditions they can emerge in the first place. In what way can individuals, organizations, networks and societies be enabled to continuously induce innovations?

Author : Jaan Valsiner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319610641

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From Methodology to Methods in Human Psychology by Jaan Valsiner Pdf

This Brief aims to provide a theoretically innovative introduction to the methodology of the human sciences. It presents a new version of methodology, as a system of mutually linked acts of creating knowledge where both abstract and concrete features of research are intricately intertwined. It shows how the constructions of particular methods that are used in the science of psychology are interdependent with general psychology. This is exemplified as the Methodology Cycle. The need for an emphasis on the Methodology Cycle grows out of the habitual presentation of methods as if they were independent from the assumptions which they are built upon, with the ultimate goal of searching for and creating universal principles. Chapters discuss the Methodology Cycle and its uses in various areas of empirical study in psychological functions. Featured topics in this Brief include: The strict separation between methodology and methods. Introspection, the primary method of psychology. Extrospection, the act of introspection turned outwards. Generalization and its effect on uniqueness. From Methodology to Methods in Human Psychology will be of interest to psychologists, undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers.

Author : Thomas Boll,Dieter Ferring,Jaan Valsiner
Publisher : IAP
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781641131391

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Cultures of Care in Aging by Thomas Boll,Dieter Ferring,Jaan Valsiner Pdf

This book is about caring for elderly persons in the 21th century. It shows that care has many facets and is influenced by many factors. Central topics of this book thus include the relation between the person depending on care and the care giver(s), the impacts of caregiving on the family and the larger social context, as well as socio-cultural and political aspects underlying the growing need for and the practice of formal and informal care. It is evident that care as a real-life phenomenon of our time needs the co-operation of multiple disciplines to better understand, describe, explain and modify phenomena of elder care. Such a need for cross- disciplinary research is even more urgent given the increasing population aging and the impending gaps between demand and supply of care. The present book is dedicated to this approach and provides a first substantive integration of knowledge from geropsychology, other gerosciences, and cultural psychologies by a multi-disciplinary cast of internationally renowned authors. Cultural psychology emerged as a valuable partner of the gerosciences by contributing essentially to a deeper understanding of the relevant issues. Reading of this book provides the reader—researcher or practitioner—with new insights of where the problems of advancing age take our caring tasks in our 21st century societies and it opens many new directions for further work in the field. Finally and above all, this book is also a strong plea for solidarity between generations in family and society in a rapidly changing globalized world.

Author : Marie-Cécile Bertau,Miguel M. Gonçalves,Peter T. F. Raggatt
Publisher : IAP
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623960391

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Dialogic Formations by Marie-Cécile Bertau,Miguel M. Gonçalves,Peter T. F. Raggatt Pdf

This volume understands itself as an invitation to follow a fundamental shift in perspective, away from the self-contained ‘I’ of Western conventions, and towards a relational self, where development and change are contingent on otherness. In the framework of ‘Dialogical Self Theory’ (Hermans & Hermans-Konopka, 2010; Hermans & Gieser, 2012), it is precisely the forms of interaction and exchange with others and with the world that determine the course of the self’s development. The volume hence addresses dialogical processes in human interaction from a psychological perspective, bringing together previously separate theoretical traditions about the ‘self’ and about ‘dialogue’ within the innovative framework of Dialogical Self Theory. The book is devoted to developmental questions, and so broaches one of the more difficult and challenging topics for models of a pluralist self: the question of how the dynamics of multiplicity emerge and change over time. This question is explored by addressing ontogenetic questions, directed at the emergence of the dialogical self in early infancy, as well as microgenetic questions, addressed to later developmental dynamics in adulthood. Additionally, development and change in a range of culture-specific settings and practices is also examined, including the practices of mothering, of migration and cross-cultural assimilation, and of ‘doing psychotherapy’.