The Governance of Global Innovation Systems: Putting Knowledge in Context

Technological innovation increasingly depends on multiscalar actor networks and institutions. However, the developers of many conceptual frameworks explaining innovation success have paid only limited attention to this new reality, due to their focus on regions and countries as agents that shape innovation governance and as containers that provide institutional conditions for innovation success. In particular, innovation systems literature has been criticized in this respect. In the present chapter, we refer to the recently formulated Global Innovation Systems approach, which enables researchers to capture the emergence of system resources across spatial scales. With this framework, we emphasize that beyond the focus on knowledge generation processes, a better understanding of valuation processes is necessary to guide governance structures for generating new technologies and products. This is particularly true for sectors that are oriented towards confronting grand challenges, such as cleantech industries

Tailor to Fit It

This paper is a result of research activities within wearable communications carried out at the Ericsson Norway Applied research center in collaboration with the University of Oslo. The research activities are based on the conviction that the user and usability should be in focus. The research is grounded on a field study conducted to investigate a highly mobile activity, namely bike messenger services in Oslo and New York City. Findings from this field study are the motivation behind the component-based terminal presented in this paper. Instead of building a terminal by integrating several terminals into "one", our approach suggests, first, a dissolution of the current terminals into pieces called "basic components", and then reassemble the selected "basic components" to form a customized terminal

Rapid determination of thermal endurance of PETP film combining sensitive reaction rate measurements and conventional aging tests

Thermal aging processes in polyethylene terephthalate film (PETP) were investigated in three laboratories in France, Finland and Norway, using both sensitive analytical methods to measure the aging reaction rates and physical aging tests of conventional nature. The known non-linearity [9] of the thermal endurance graph of this material was confirmed at ca. 180°C. In spite of this, the behavior of the material was predictable, especially when the EAP test method [3] was applied. Analytical methods combined with suitable physical aging tests were shown to be rapid tools for investigating the long term thermal endurance of materials in short time