Category: Dissertations and Theses
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International Boundary Organisationsand the Knowledge-Governance Interface
Abstract Deliberation on Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) for global grand challengestakes place within International Organisations, where complexity, uncertainty, andvalue divergence complicate traditional notions of the science-policy interface. Thisthesis argues that the Knowledge-Governance Interface (KGI) better captures thereciprocal and power-laden relations between knowledge and decision making. Itdevelops an analytical framework for studying KGIs within International…
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Technological Convergence in Manufacturing: Research, Adoption and Policy (full-text, dissertation)
Author: Tausif A. Bordoloi Organization: University of ManchesterSource: A thesis submitted to the University of Manchester for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in the Faculty of Humanities, Alliance Manchester Business SchoolYear: 2022 For FULL-TEXT https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/234004561/FULL_TEXT.PDF The notion of cyber-physical convergence, which indicates the pervasive integration of digitaltechnologies in manufacturing, has rapidly gained prominence…
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Digital Technologies of Information and Communication and Social Hierarchy of Objects in the field of Education: empirical tests (FULL-TEXT)
This article presents the report of an empirical investigation on scientific production in Education using bibliometric and scientometric data analyzed based on concepts created by Pierre Bourdieu for the sociology of science with the aid of a historical and philosophical framework. Using metadata from more than 6000 theses defended between 1996 and 2016 in postgraduate…
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2020 Dissertation: INTEGRATING EMERGING TECHNOLOGY IDENTIFICATION INTO SCENARIO-BASED TECHNOLOGY ROADMAPPING FOR TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT: A CASE EXAMPLE OF THAILAND’S AMBULANCE TECHNOLOGIES
Technology foresight allows an organization to systematically keep track of emerging technologies to be adopted in its technology development plan. In Thailand, the National Institute for Emergency Medicine (NIEM) develops the nation-wide emergency service system. While foresight methods such as scenario planning and technology roadmapping are already deployed at NIEM, the experts are unable to…
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2012 DISSERTATION: Impacts of an Interdisciplinary Research Center on Participant Publication and Collaboration Activities
Interdisciplinary research centers are typically presented as a means for exploiting opportunities in science where the complexity of the research problem calls for sustained interaction among multiple disciplines. This study analyzed the effects of an interdisciplinary research center (NIMBioS) on the publication and collaboration behaviors of faculty affiliated with the center. The study also sought…
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2006 DISSERTATION: Scaling the Technology Opportunity Analysis Text Data Mining Methodology: Data Extraction, Cleaning, Online Analytical Processing Analysis, and Reporting of Large Multi-source Datasets
Because the existing applications of Technology Opportunity Analysis (TOA) text data mining framework developed by Alan Porter and other researchers used small datasets, previous research never pushed the limits of the methodology and failed to identify areas for future research associated with using larger datasets. This research developed extensions to the TOA framework to improve…
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2014 MASTERS THESIS: Water as social and economic resource. Resolving questions about sharing water in Central Asia.
Water scarcity in the World today is growing faster than expected and it is among the main problems of 21st century to be faced by the World. Central Asia is considered like a region with enough water resources, however, an ineffective use of water, it’s allocation, rapidly growing population, and lack of knowledge in sharing…
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2004 DISSERTATION: A Text Mining Framework for Discovering Technological Intelligence
In this thesis, a framework based on text mining techniques is proposed to discover useful intelligence implicit in large bodies of electronic text sources. This intelligence is a prime requirement for successful R&D management. This research extends the approach called “Technology Opportunities Analysis” (developed by the Technology Policy and Assessment Center, Georgia Institute of Technology,…