) to formalize and to teach these techniques? This argumentation will try to show that the concept of technology is …

project, developed in 2004 by IET – Research Centre on Enterprise and Work Innovation (at FCT-UNL), and financed by the … Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology. Some of this experience on foresight analysis is also been transferred to other … experts in related fields (regional scientists, innovation economists, engineers, sociologists). Some have a good knowledge …

explain the relationship between the objective and concrete features of technology and the subjective and shifting nature of … the people and organisation within which that technology is deployed. At the cultural and linguistic level the paper will …

Technology has been playing a central role in defense spending or arms-producing countries since World War II. Although … well as public R&D. This technology-centric paradigm results from uncertainties surrounding defense matters and the need to … launching new programs, hence a high level of defense R&D. This explains both an overinvestment in technology, resulting in the …

This paper is about the alignment of technology and modes of organization in infrastructures in the context of their … determine the alignment between organization and technology and should be taken explicitly into account when reforming …

The paper investigates the patterns of persistence of innovation and of the properties of firms' knowledge base (KB …

The "hierarchical and linear model of innovation" (HLMI) is often used to describe how innovations are produced. HLMI … conceiving innovation systems as associations of building blocks and using contemporary engineering diagram-based languages to … display them. Nevertheless, this improvement does not challenge the dynamic features of innovation systems …