1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910287956203321

Titolo

2018 International Conference on Computational Approach in Smart Systems Design and Applications : 15-17 August 2018, Kuching, Malaysia / / IEEE Computer Society

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Piscataway, New Jersey : , : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, , 2018

ISBN

1-5386-8369-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (48 pages)

Disciplina

006.33

Soggetti

Expert systems (Computer science)

Automatic control

Robotics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910146881003321

Autore

McMeekin Andrew

Titolo

Innovation by demand : an interdisciplinary approach to the study of demand and its role in innovation / / edited by Andrew McMeekin ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2018]

©2002

ISBN

9781847795526

1847795528

9781526137449

1526137445

9781781700273

1781700273

9781847790521

1847790526

9781417590537

141759053X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 pages) : charts, tables; digital file(s)

Collana

New dynamics of innovation and competition

Altri autori (Persone)

McMeekinAndrew

Disciplina

338.064

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics)

Consumption (Economics) - Sociological aspects

Demand (Economic theory)

Diffusion of innovations

Supply and demand

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

First published: 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Innovation by demand? An introduction / Andrew McMeekin, Ken Green, Mark Tomlinson and Vivien Walsh -- 2. Social mechanisms generating demand: a review and manifesto / Alan Warde -- 3. There's



more to the economics of consumption than (almost) unconstrained utility maximisation / G. M. Peter Swann -- 4. Variety, growth and demand / Pier Paolo Saviotti -- 5. Preferences and novelty: a multidisciplinary perspective / Wilhelm Ruprecht -- 6. Social routines and the consumption of food / Mark Tomlinson and Andrew McMeekin -- 7. Social categorisation and group identification: how African Americans shape their collective identity through consumption / Virág Molnár and Michèle Lamont -- 8. Hyperembedded demand and uneven innovation: female labour in a male-dominated service industry / Bonnie H. Erickson -- 9. Greening organisations: purchasing, consumption and innovation / Ken Green, Barbara Morton and Steve New -- 10. Information and communication technologies and the role of consumers in innovation / Leslie Haddon -- 11. The incorporation of user needs in telecom product design / Vivien Walsh, Carole Cohen and Albert Richards -- 12. Markets, supermarkets and the macro-social shaping of demand: an instituted economic process approach / Mark Harvey -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Sociologists and economists are increasingly interested in understanding the patterns and drivers of technological innovation. This book brings together a range of experts to study the role of demand and consumption in the innovative process, including case studies to illustrate the issues raised.