Innovaiting Responsibly: Discovering the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models

PROBLEM<br/>Foundation Models are emerging as a new paradigm in AI research &amp;<br/>commercialisation. While this opens up possibilities for radically innovative<br/>solutions and significant value creation, startups are challenged with finding<br/>unique &amp; differentiated ways to leverage the technology, while simultaneously<br/>mitigating...

Solving the problems of unconstrained technological innovation: Three models of inclusive society

The recommendations in this thesis are relevant for research and consultancy firms specialized in social aspects of technology. The problem that is analyzed is how in the future society can remain inclusive, when faced with the problems of technological innovation and the possibility of it causing technological unemployment. Researching such...

Efteling: Innovative, while authentic and customer centric

There is a shift to the experience economy. Customers are increasingly craving unique experiences and authentic brands; brands that are real, sincere. Additionally, technological developments are booming and can help enhance these customer experience. Efteling employees have lots of ideas to innovate technically. This master thesis explores how...

Visualizing 17 years of CDIO influence via bibliometric data analysis

visualizing multi-dimensional indicators of influence in communities of practice (Youtie &amp; Shapira, 2008). Such an approach has been used to map emerging fields of research such as synthetic biology and nanotechnology (Shapira, Kwon, &amp; Youtie, 2017; Youtie &amp; Shapira, 2008). Using this approach, one can track citation and social...

The CDIO framework and new perspectives on technological innovation

Technological innovation happens on a daily basis all around us. Yet, in our educational programs there is rarely any attention paid to what this is and how this unfolds over time in real life. This is not at all surprising, since there is not one unified and widely accepted body of knowledge on technological innovation that is grounded enough,...

How did the General Purpose Technology Electricity contribute to the Second Industrial Revolution (II): The Communication Engines

The concept of the General Purpose Technology (GPT) of the late 1990s is a culmination of many evolutionairy views in innovation-thinking. By definition the GPT considers the technical, social, and economic effects of meta-technologies like steam-technology and electric technology. This paper uses Schumpeter’s concept of ’cluster on innovations’...

Acts of Invention and Acts of Business in the GPT-Electricity: What did Morse, Bell and Marconi have in common?

The General Purpose Technology of Electricity (GPT-E) as a meta-technology has been a driving force of economic growth in the Second Industrial Revolution. Fuelled by inventions (eg the electric motor/dynamo, electric light, telegraph, and telephone), its micro-foundations were the General Purpose Engines (GPE). These GPEs were the basic...

How did the General Purpose Technology ’Electricity’ contribute to the Second Industrial Revolution (I): The Power Engines.

The concept of the General Purpose Technology (GPT) of the late 1990s is a culmination of many evolutionairy views in innovation-thinking. By definition the GPT considers the technical, social, and economic effects of meta-technologies like steam-technology and electric technology. This paper uses Schumpeter’s concept of ’cluster on innovations’...

A system dynamics model for knowledge and technology of enterprises in the open innovative environment

In the fast developing knowledge economy age, the internal resources of an enterprise are usually not enough for proper development, and cooperation with external organizations becomes a popular approach for many enterprises to improve their knowledge storage and technology level, the background of which is called open innovative environment....

A reconstruction of policy-driven innovations to reduce Dutch car emissions 1960-2010

One of the main drawbacks of mobility are the traffic-related emissions of air pollutants – e.g. nitrogen oxides (NOx) – and greenhouse gases – e.g. carbon dioxide (CO2). In the past governments all over the world aimed at technological innovations to limit the emissions from traffic. Using insights from innovation theory regarding the role of...