Innovation and Technology — Strategies and Policies

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

3. Technology

   1. Technologies of time- and Location-Independent Tele-cooperation in Interactive and Multimedia Applications

      • J. L. Encarnação, Stefan Noll, Ralph Peters

      Pages 29-60

   2. Evolution from Invention to Technological Innovation and Influence of “Objects” on Economic Cycles and on Paradigms

      • Henry Benavides Puerto

      Pages 61-75

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

6. Health

   1. Photonics (Optoelectronics) in Medicine and Surgery for the 21st Century

      • David M. Harris

      Pages 183-192

7. Economics and Management

   1. R&D and International Trade: Government Intervention and the Role of Supranational Authorities

      • Pedro Pita Barros

      Pages 193-203

   2. Technological Change and Management Education

      • Lluís Pugès

      Pages 205-210

   3. Economics of Innovation and Learning

      • P. Cohendet, J.A. Héraud, E. Zuscovitch

      Pages 211-219

   4. Spillovers from Abroad: A Sectorial Assessment of the Impacts of Foreign Direct Investment on Hungarian Industrial Development

      • ÁdÁm TÕrÕk

      Pages 221-232

   5. Innovation and Promotional Employment Strategies

      • Maria da Conceição Pereira Ramos

      Pages 233-254

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.

• Innovation
• Investment
• computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)
• cooperation
• economic growth
• economics
• education
• energy policy
• international trade
• management
• organization
• rating
• research & development (R&D)
• technological innovation
• technology management

• 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

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