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  • Marketing sophistication in the forest products industry

    Creator:
    Han, Xiaoou
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    In the forest products business and management literature, one common categorization of different types of innovation is product innovation, process innovation and business systems innovation. Forest products companies have long placed high emphasis on process innovations, which are related to yield maximization, manufacturing efficiency and operating costs reduction. This is...
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    categorization of different types of innovation is product innovation, process innovation and business systems

  • Guide groups : an evaluation of educational innovation in a secondary school

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    Erickson, John William
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    Purpose of the Study: This study was undertaken as a result of interest in the introduction of guide groups into the operation of secondary schools. Particularly when viewed from the historical perspective of the times in which it was initiated, the guide group concept offers an opportunity to examine the...
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    Guide groups : an evaluation of educational innovation in a

  • Faculty perceptions of organizational climate for innovation at community colleges

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    Batazhan, Tatyana
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    Higher education is faced with ever-increasing challenges, which require fundamental changes in order to ensure its relevance in the future. Business leaders and academic scholars urge organizations to continuously reshape and renew through learning and innovation to assure viability and sustainability. Organizational climate serves as a foundation that can promote...
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    Faculty Perceptions of Organizational Climate for Innovation

  • Irrigation Innovations to Increase Efficiency and Sustainability

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    Al-agele, Hadi A.
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    The first part of the dissertation chronicles irrigation technology changes to progressively improve water application efficiency, water use efficiency, irrigation water productivity and crop production. Technological innovation in irrigation, from 6000 BC to present, has been driven by an unchanging need to provide support for growing populations. The first irrigation...
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    in the sprinkler innovation tests of chapter 1, uniform water application is critical. In drip

  • Towards a guided framework for innovative engineering through the generation and evaluation stages of concept design

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    Oman, Sarah Kay
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    This work proposes a framework of concept generation and evaluation that takes into consideration the benefit of creativity and innovation in current market trends. By educating engineers in how to increase creativity in concept design and assess it quantitatively, the next generation of designers will be a step ahead of...
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    consideration the benefit of creativity and innovation in current market trends. By educating engineers in

  • Gathering information rich customer needs for inclusive product design

    Creator:
    Armstrong, Jessica
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    This work explores a framework for the gathering and analysis of information rich customer needs, with the goal of informing inclusive product design practice. The goal is to be able to provide information and experience to designers so that they can better understand the needs of exceptional users and include...
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    goal of informing inclusive product design practice. The goal is to be able to provide information

  • Organizational climate and innovativeness in the forest products industry

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    Crespell, Pablo Javier, 1968-
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    There has been an increasing realization of the value of innovativeness, the orientation toward innovation, for firms thriving to gain competitive edge. The US forest products industry is no different in this respect and many companies have active initiatives to bring about creativity from their own employees. At the same...
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    Culture and Innovation Innovation and new product development can not be seen in isolation of an

  • Student, teaching assistant, and faculty learning during innovation in an introductory biology course

    Creator:
    Blair, Lesley
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    This study examined the dynamics of student, teaching assistant (TA), and faculty learning in relationship to implementation of a genetic technologies project in a university introductory biology course. Research focused on the types of learning that occurred and the various factors impacting that learning. Study participants included 25 undergraduate non-science...
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    -existing subject and situational conditions with (2) characteristics of innovation, and (3) the resulting

  • Measuring innovativeness in the North American softwood sawmilling industry

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    Knowles, Christopher David
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    Innovativeness, or the propensity of a firm to create and/or adopt new products, process and business systems, has been measured using several methods in previous research. Examples of theses methods include current technology, self-evaluation, research and development funding, the number of new products, and intellectual property. In addition to the...
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    . Business systems innovation does not provide a new product or service, but consists of the development of

  • Data acquisition techniques for next generation wireless sensor networks

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    Ehsan, Samina
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    The meteoric rise and prevalent usage of wireless networking technologies for mobile communication applications have captured the attention of media and imagination of public in the recent decade. One such proliferation is experienced in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), where multimedia enabled elements are fused with integrated sensors to empower tightly...
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    with almost no human intervention. In addition, they form a network that enables remote management of