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Tag Archives: Innovation
Necessity is the mother of inventors: my PhD lecture
The following is the traditional Lectio praecursoria a doctoral candidate in Finland gives to the audience before his/her PhD defence. This one is mine, delivered on 12th December 2017. Esteemed custos, esteemed opponent, ladies and gentlemen! You all are probably … Continue reading
Posted in History of technology, Innovation, Scarcities and constraints
Tagged Essays, Innovation, PhD, Research
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Atomic mail rockets, and how monocausal predictions are particularly dangerous
The new, shining age of information delivery was briefly at hand on June 8th, 1959. A Regulus cruise missile – designed for delivering a nuclear warhead to a Soviet city or port – landed neatly at the naval base at … Continue reading
Posted in Ecomodernism, History of technology, Nuclear energy & weapons
Tagged Forecasting, Future, Innovation, Predictions, Rocket mail, Space Age
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Simulating technological development: sneak peek!
As previously stated, we’re seeking to simulate the development, adoption, and modification – in short, the evolution – of technologies. Here’s a sneak peek of the sort of shiny output our computing clusters will soon be churning out. Hopefully :). … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Notes in process, Simulations
Tagged ADDER, evolution of technology, Innovation, Research, Simulations
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“How Radical is a Radical Innovation?” Kasmire, Korhonen and Nikolic (2012)
My very first journal publication! 🙂 Admittedly, it’s a conference proceedings published in a journal form and I’m just the second author, but still, it’s an indexed journal, so you’ll perhaps forgive me for celebrating. In any case, although the … Continue reading
Is there such a thing as radical innovation?
Recently, I came across a working paper by two very big names in design/innovation research – Donald A. Norman and Roberto Verganti. The paper was very interesting, not the least since the hill-climbing paradigm of innovation presented therein is almost … Continue reading
Crises are “come as you are” events, not springboards, simulations say
My PhD research topic deals with resource constraints and, by implication, resource shocks such as the oil crisis of 1973 – and the current slow-mo energy crisis. What I’m trying to do is to sort out whether sudden constraints, such … Continue reading
Posted in Notes in process, Scarcities and constraints, Simulations
Tagged Constraints, Innovation, Research, Simulations
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