Innovative Technologies for Market Leadership

1. Front Matter

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2. Smart Grid, Future Innovation and Investment Opportunities

   • Dean Sharafi

   Pages 1-10

3. Quantum Technologies

   • Daniel Akenine

   Pages 11-19

4. Security in Intelligent Transportation Telematics

   • Erich H. Franke

   Pages 21-29

5. Innovation and Future Technology Scenarios in Health Care: Ideas and Studies

   • Philipp Plugmann

   Pages 31-43

6. Unlocking the Power of Artificial Intelligence for Your Business

   • Patrick Glauner

   Pages 45-59

7. Innovation Means: Asking the Right Questions

   • Oliver Bludau

   Pages 61-74

8. Innovative Technologies in the Ageing Population: Breaking the Boundaries

   • Guido Lerzynski

   Pages 75-87

9. Using Augmented Reality and Machine Learning in Radiology

   • Lucian Trestioreanu, Patrick Glauner, Jorge Augusto Meira, Max Gindt, Radu State

   Pages 89-106

10. Digitalization in Mechanical Engineering

    • Michael Thurner, Patrick Glauner

    Pages 107-117

11. Lean Launch Data Engineering Projects with Super Type Power

    • Kenny Zhuo Ming Lu

    Pages 119-131

12. Ubiquitous Computing: From 5G to the Edge and Beyond

    • André Panné

    Pages 133-151

13. Autonomous Driving on the Thin Trail of Great Opportunities and Dangerous Trust

    • Sandro Mund, Patrick Glauner

    Pages 153-165

14. Analytic Philosophy for Biomedical Research: The Imperative of Applying Yesterday’s Timeless Messages to Today’s Impasses

    • Sepehr Ehsani

    Pages 167-200Open Access

15. Proposal-Based Innovation: A New Approach to Opening Up the Innovation Process

    • Karl H. Ohlberg, Jose L. Salmeron

    Pages 201-231

16. Technologies and Innovations for the Plastics Industry: Polymer 2030

    • Michael Krause

    Pages 233-243

17. How Do Innovative Business Concepts Enable Investment Opportunities in the Complete Construction Value Chain?

    • Christoph Jacob

    Pages 245-264

18. Motivation, Employees, and Communication in the Start-Up Phase

    • Achim Denkel

    Pages 265-270

19. AI to Solve the Data Deluge: AI-Based Data Compression

    • Eric Falk

    Pages 271-285

20. Digital Transformation in Plastics Industry: From Digitization Toward Virtual Material

    • Christopher Stillings

    Pages 287-298

This book introduces the reader to the latest innovations in fields such as artificial intelligence, systems biology or surgery, and gives advice on what new technologies to consider for becoming a market leader of tomorrow. Companies generally acquire information on these fields from various sources such as market reports, scientific literature or conference events, but find it difficult to distinguish between mere hype and truly valuable innovations. This book offers essential guidance in the form of structured and authoritative contributions by experts in innovative technologies spanning from biology and medicine to augmented reality and smart power grids. The authors identify high-potential fields and demonstrate the impact of their technologies to create economic value in real-world applications. They also offer business leaders advice on whether and how to implement these new technologies and innovations in their companies or businesses.

Chapter 13 Analytic Philosophy for Biomedical Research: The Imperative of Applying Yesterday’s Timeless Messages to Today’s Impasses by Sepehr Ehsani is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

• Artificial intelligence in society
• Health care revolutions
• VR/AR transformation of production
• Long term investments in technology
• Synthetic biology and philosophy
• New materials for the future

• Applied Computer Science, Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Deggendorf, Germany

  Patrick Glauner

• Interdisciplinary Periodontology and Prevention, SRH University of Applied Health Sciences, Leverkusen, Germany

  Philipp Plugmann

Prof. Dr. Patrick Glauner is the Founder & CEO of skyrocket.ai GmbH, an artificial intelligence consulting firm based in Bavaria, Germany. In parallel, he is Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Deggendorf Institute of Technology, a position he is honored to hold since the age of 30. His research on AI was featured in New Scientist and cited by McKinsey and others. He is also Area Editor of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (IJCIS). Previously, he held managerial positions at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), at Krones Group and at Alexander Thamm GmbH. He studied at Imperial College London and also holds an MBA. He is an alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).

Prof. Dr. Dr. Philipp Plugmann has been doing multidisciplinary work for the last 20 years in parallel to practicing as a dentist in his own clinic in Leverkusen, Germany. He is alsoFull Professor for Interdisciplinary Periodontology and Prevention at SRH University of Applied Health Sciences. His first book on innovation in medical technology published in 2011 was reviewed by Cisco. His second book on innovation published with Springer in 2018 got more than 50,000 chapter downloads in its first fifteen months. Previously, he held multiple adjunct faculty appointments for more than twelve years and has won multiple teaching awards. He also holds an MBA, a MSc in Business Innovation, a MSc in Periodontology and Implant Therapy (DGParo) and is currently pursuing his third doctorate. Plugmann has given research talks in the field of innovation at Conferences at Harvard Business School, Berkeley Haas School of Business, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, and Nanyang Tech University, Singapore. Plugmann is a serial entrepreneur and advisor to several companies, including a global technology consultancy - DataArt.

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