直面技术向市场转化之惑

到底有多少技术沉睡在大学实验室里等待着拨云见日的那一天呢?虽然很难统计确切的数字,但是越来越多的企业和研究所都认为,那么多的创新没能转化成生产力实在是非常可惜,因此他们试图联合起来解决技术向市场转化的问题.     

Genetic risk and value

A conceptual truth about risks is that they involve a possible and future adverse effect or a negative value of some kind. The genetic risks that individuals may face in the health care setting differ in some crucial respects to other kind of risks. The aims of this paper are to analyse the notion of value in the context of genetic risk in the setting of health care, and to suggest a conception of the evaluative aspect of genetic risk that is fruitful for genetic risk information. Two influential and relevant approaches to value, preferentialism and the capability approach, are discussed in the light of certain distinctive features of genetic risk and a third, a sensibility theory of value is suggested. According to this view, the concept of risk is a so-called ‘thick’ evaluative concept that has both a world-guiding function as well as an action-guiding or normative function. It is argued that this provides a more promising way to think about genetic risks in the clinical setting.     

Can Operating Leverage Be the Cause of the Value Premium?

Recent theoretical models (Carlson, Fisher, and Giammarino, 2004) predict an association between the book-to-market equity ratio (BE/ME) and operating leverage in the cross-section. Consistent with these models, we find a positive association between BE/ME and the degree of operating leverage (DOL), between DOL and stock returns, and between DOL and systematic risk. Overall, our findings provide support for a risk-based explanation for the value premium that is consistent with existing theoretical models. The evolution of systematic risk associated with firm-level investment activity, rather than financial distress, seems to be the main determinant of the value premium.     

Second thoughts on free riding

We use the strategy method to classify subjects into cooperator types in a large-scale online Public Goods Game and find that free riders spend more time on making their decisions than conditional cooperators and other cooperator types. This result is robust to reversing the framing of the game and is not driven by cognitive ability, confusion, or natural swiftness in responding. Our results suggest that conditional cooperation serves as a norm and that free riders need time to resolve a moral dilemma.     

Arenas of Development - A Space Populated by Actor-worlds, Artefacts, and Surprises

In this paper the notion 'development arena' is presented and discussed. The notion is suggested to function as a cognitive space for research. It seeks to catch and describe the relational, unstable and heterogeneous character of the development process. It should sensitize both researchers and managers towards processes of technology development that are poorly accounted for in economic and management theory. Thereby, we wish to contribute to critical discussions about the role of management and the directions it chooses for development of technologies and products. The elements and transformations involved in shaping and restructuring activities in a development arena are described and discussed based on a case study of the development of HDTV as the next generation television. It exemplifies different moments and aspects of technology development. A number of configurations of specific processes in a development arena are used to exemplify the strengths of this notion. The notion is compared with other theoretical concepts that have been proposed to explain and model the processes that structure industries, markets, and products.     

需要应对的不仅是RoHS

在减轻电子设备的制造和废弃对环境的影响方面,欧盟的ROHS和“废弃电气与电子设备(WEEE)”法令起到了领路作用。中国、日本、韩国、美国等国家目前都在制订类似的法律。     

丹麦风电的未来

丹麦是世界风电行业的领跑者。介绍了丹麦大力发展风电的驱动力,描述了风电发展给电力行业以及人民生活带来的影响,阐述了风电的社会经济效益。详细论述了丹麦通过负荷经济调度、电力进出口以及上下调制电能产量从而实现了电力消费的20％来自于风能。为实现欧盟的“20—20-20”目标,电网基础设施建设、灵活的生产与消费以及智能电网方案将为可再生能源尤其是风电的发展提供坚强的平台。负荷经济调度在新的方案下是实现社会经济效益最大化的有效措施。     

Texas Prototypes找准定位

居于印刷电路板(PCB)的设计与生产之间的工作实在是既耗时又耗精力的黑洞,正是这些环节需要重配置、重写、测试以及再测试等工作。Texas Prototypes抓住这些黑洞并且将之转化成了美妙的sweet spot(最佳位置)。     

EMS扩充"势力范围"——合同制造商关注医疗外包市场

企业在选择制造商时会考虑很多因素,而且为了达成目标,通常需要实现某种信念上的跨越.但最终,Waters公司还是选择了将其一种主要产品的制造业务外包出去.该公司主要生产用于医疗、化工以及其他类分析的精密设备.