enterprises activity in the field of research and development and their efficiency at the core business level. This analysis was … efficiency and without it - using the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. The sample was accounted for 252 companies from … the technology sector, whose shares are traded on NYSE or NASDAQ, and the analysis time period consisted of three years …

This paper explores a little studied arena that exists between science and technology, an arena in which a singular and …-technologists thereby comprise a distinctive (but never distinct) transverse science and technology culture that generates a species of … to cognitive, material and social cohesion. Research-technology is about the complementarity between boundarycrossing and …

Introduction. The varieties of efficiency -- Static and dynamic efficiency: the waterwheels of Smeaton and the Franklin … the costs of efficiency -- Balance and transformation: technical and popular efficiency in the Progressive Era US -- An … island of mechanical predictability: efficient worker seating in late Weimar Germany -- Pride in efficiency: the dispute over …

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Varieties of Efficiency … -- 1 Static and Dynamic Efficiency: The Waterwheels of Smeaton and the Franklin Institute -- 2 The Effects of Control …: Gérard-Joseph Christian and Perfected Machines -- 3 Economy of Nature: Darwin, Marshall, and the Costs of Efficiency -- 4 …