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Innovation and Technology — Strategies and Policies

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Editors:
  1. Olivério D. D. Soares

    1. Universidade Lusíada, Porto, Portugal

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  2. A. Martins Cruz

    1. Universidade Lusíada, Lisboa, Portugal

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  3. G. Costa Pereira

    1. Universidade Lusíada, V.N. Famalicão, Portugal

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  4. Isabel M.R.T. Soares

    1. Universidade Lusíada, Porto, Portugal

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  5. Albino J.P.S. Reis

    1. Universidade Lusíada, V.N. Famalicão, Portugal

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Environment and ECO-Industries

    1. The Environment: The Basic Resource

      • A. J. Fairclough
      Pages 1-19

    2. Technological & Management Innovation as Partners for Economic Growth

      • Stephen C. James
      Pages 21-27

  4. Energy

    1. Merits and Short Comings of Energy Forecasts: Demand for and Price of Crude Oil

      • Jean Masseron, J. P. Favennec
      Pages 77-91

    2. Energy Policy: Fairy Tales and Factualities

      • Willem Van Gool
      Pages 93-105

    3. Energy Needs in the Next Century

      • John Ward
      Pages 107-124

    4. Nuclear Energy into the 21st Century

      • Geoffrey Paul Hammond
      Pages 125-140

  5. Training, Education and Research

    1. Photonics for the Knowledge Age

      • M. J. Soileau
      Pages 141-147

    2. Science and Innovation as Strategic Tools for Industrial and Economic Growth

      • Carlo Corsi
      Pages 149-156

    3. The Culture of Innovation in Higher Education Processes

      • Sergio Russo
      Pages 157-165

    4. Trends of the Portuguese Scientific and Technological Development

      • F. Ramôa Ribeiro
      Pages 167-173

    5. Innovation and Ongoing Industrial Transmutation

      • Olivério Delfim Dias Soares
      Pages 175-182
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About this book

Innovation and Technology - Strategies and Policies contains a selection of outstanding contributions by world experts on how a culture of innovation is able to produce a response to fast global changes affecting society.
The book describes major evolutionary directions and foreseen trends in: environment versus industry; technology breakthroughs; energy planning; education and research; intangible investment requirements; new health technologies; and economics and management of innovative actions at strategic, organisational and technological levels.
The actual percolation of the innovative process throughout the multiple facets of society is presented in relation to the main challenges facing us in the 21st Century. The book is addressed to all those concerned with innovation in dynamic terms as a creative response to the ongoing changes in society integrating sciences, technologies, humanities, life-long education and training, and other disciplines.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universidade Lusíada, Porto, Portugal

    Olivério D. D. Soares, Isabel M.R.T. Soares

  • Universidade Lusíada, Lisboa, Portugal

    A. Martins Cruz

  • Universidade Lusíada, V.N. Famalicão, Portugal

    G. Costa Pereira, Albino J.P.S. Reis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Innovation and Technology — Strategies and Policies

  • Editors: Olivério D. D. Soares, A. Martins Cruz, G. Costa Pereira, Isabel M.R.T. Soares, Albino J.P.S. Reis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-29606-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4435-3Published: 28 February 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4804-2Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-585-29606-7Published: 27 August 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 274

  • Topics: Economics, general, Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Management, Business and Management, general

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