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Religion and Innovation in Europe: Implications for Product Life-Cycle Management
This paper analyzes the relationship between religion and innovation in Europe. To the best knowledge of the authors, no paper has been published about the association of religion with innovation and innovative products and services, at an individual level, for all the countries that belong to the European Union. This is the main goal of our paper. The results show that the orientation of innovativeness depends on religion. This study contains a segmentation of the main religions in Europe, taking into account their innovative profile. Connecting the characteristics of the religious segments found and the innovations life-cycle concept, companies have a tool to manage different innovations’ evolutive stages taking into consideration the religion of their customers. The European policy-makers, still dominated by a traditional innovation approach, gain a demand-side perspective to improve citizen’s innovativeness awareness and acceptance. Finally, religiosity does not seem to have a very strong relationship with attitudes towards innovation once we control for religious affiliation
Multisymplectic Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formalisms of Classical Field Theories
This review paper is devoted to presenting the standard multisymplectic
formulation for describing geometrically classical field theories, both the
regular and singular cases. First, the main features of the Lagrangian
formalism are revisited and, second, the Hamiltonian formalism is constructed
using Hamiltonian sections. In both cases, the variational principles leading
to the Euler-Lagrange and the Hamilton-De Donder-Weyl equations, respectively,
are stated, and these field equations are given in different but equivalent
geometrical ways in each formalism. Finally, both are unified in a new
formulation (which has been developed in the last years), following the
original ideas of Rusk and Skinner for mechanical systems.Comment: v1: 17 pages, Talk presented in the "MAT.ES2005: 1st Joint Meeting of
Mathematics RSME-SCM-SEIO-SEMA" (Valencia, Spain 2005,
http://www.uv.es/mat.es2005/); v3: published versio
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