Technological innovations

Here are entered works on fundamental technological improvements or changes in materials, production methods, processes, organization, or management which increase efficiency and production. Works on original devices or processes are entered under Inventions.

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• Creative ability in technology
• Inventions

• Research, Industrial
• Technology transfer

• Technological innovations -- Australia
• Technological innovations -- Canada
• Technological innovations -- Chile
• Technological innovations -- Congresses
• Technological innovations -- Developing countries
• Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
• Technological innovations -- Environmental aspects
• Technological innovations -- Europe
• Technological innovations -- Fiction
• Technological innovations -- Forecasting
• Technological innovations -- France
• Technological innovations -- Government policy
• Technological innovations -- History
• Technological innovations -- Japan
• Technological innovations -- Management
• Technological innovations -- Periodicals
• Technological innovations -- Russia (Federation)
• Technological innovations -- Social aspects
• Technological innovations -- Soviet Union
• Technological innovations -- United States
• Technological innovations -- Vietnam
• Academic libraries -- Effect of technological innovations on
• Agricultural innovations
• Diffusion of innovations
• Education -- Effect of technological innovations on
• Education, Higher -- Effect of technological innovations on
• Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on
• Forestry innovations
• Medical innovations
• Small business -- Technological innovations
• Technology assessment
• Aeronautics -- Technological innovations
• Aeronautics, Commercial -- Technological innovations
• Airplanes -- Technological innovations
• Architecture -- Technological innovations
• Astronautics -- Technological innovations
• Automobiles -- Technological innovations
• Ballistic missile defenses -- Technological innovations
• Bomb reconnaissance -- Technological innovations
• Bombings -- Prevention -- Technological innovations
• Capital market -- Technological innovations
• Communication -- Technological innovations
• Communication in chemistry -- Technological innovations
• Communication in learning and scholarship -- Technological innovations
• Customer relations -- Technological innovations
• Detectors -- Technological innovations
• Digital media -- Technological innovations
• Distance education -- Technological innovations
• Electric power systems -- United States -- Technological innovations
• Electric power transmission -- United States -- Technological innovations
• Electric utilities -- United States -- Technological innovations
• Energy conservation -- United States -- Technological innovations
• Energy development -- United States -- Technological innovations
• Environmental engineering -- Technological innovations
• Environmental protection -- Technological innovations
• Functional literacy -- United States -- Technological innovations
• Humanities -- Technological innovations
• Information technology -- Technological innovations
• Internet -- Technological innovations
• Journalism -- Technological innovations
• Large space structures (Astronautics) -- United States -- Technological innovations
• Law enforcement -- Technological innovations
• Learning and scholarship -- Technological innovations
• Libraries -- Technological innovations
• Library science -- Technological innovations
• Livestock -- Breeding -- Technological innovations
• Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) -- Technological innovations
• Manufactures -- Technological innovations
• Manufacturing processes -- Technological innovations
• Mass media -- Technological innovations
• Military assistance -- Technological innovations
• Military doctrine -- Technological innovations
• Nuclear energy -- China -- Technological innovations
• Nuclear energy -- United States -- Technological innovations
• Oil-shales -- Technological innovations
• Reference services (Libraries) -- Technological innovations
• Remote sensing -- Technological innovations
• Research -- Technological innovations
• Semiconductor industry -- Technological innovations
• Service industries -- Technological innovations
• Shipbuilding -- Technological innovations
• Space flight -- Technological innovations
• Space stations -- Technological innovations
• Speech disorders -- Technological innovations
• Telecommunication -- Technological innovations
• Terrorism -- Prevention -- Technological innovations
• Textile industry -- Japan -- Technological innovations
• United States -- Armed Forces -- Equipment -- Technological innovations
• Vaccines -- Technological innovations

• Technological breakthroughs
• Technical innovations
• Innovations, Technological
• Innovations, Industrial
• Breakthroughs, Technological
• Technological change

• Against Intellectual Monopoly (electronic edition, 2007), by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine (PDF with commentary at dklevine.com)
• Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Tara McPherson (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets, by Andy Kessler (HTML with commentary at Booktrope)
• A Passion for Ideas: How Innovators Create the New and Shape Our World (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2002), ed. by Heinrich von Pierer and Bolko von Oetinger (PDF at Purdue)
• Product Liability and Innovation: Managing Risk in an Uncertain Environment, ed. by Janet R. Hunziker and Trevor O. Jones (page images at NAP)
• Technology for Nonviolent Struggle (London: War Resisters' International, 2001), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)

• Tomorrow's World: The Australian Initiative (HTML in Australia)

• Science, Technology, and Innovation in Chile, by James Mullin, Robert M. Adam, Janet E. Halliwell, and Larry P. Milligan (HTML at idrc.ca)

• Democratizing Innovation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2005), by Eric von Hippel (PDF files at MIT)
• Digital Opportunity: A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth (with related documents; 2011), by Ian Hargreaves (PDF with commentary in the UK)
• The Sources of Innovation (New York: Oxford University Press, c1988), by Eric von Hippel (PDF files at MIT)
• Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2009), by Peter F. Cowhey and Jonathan David Aronson, contrib. by Donald Abelson (PDF with commentary at globalinfoandtelecom.org)

• Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment, ed. by Jesse H. Ausubel and H. Dale Langford (page images at NAP)

• A, for Anything, by Damon Knight (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Wowio)
• Rx for Chaos (included on a Baen CD image), by Christopher Anvil, ed. by Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
• The Sleeper Awakes, by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• When the Sleeper Wakes, by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)

• Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization, by Kevin Kelly (HTML and PDF with commentary at kk.org)

• Applications of R&D in the Civil Sector: The Opportunity Provided by the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977 (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies (c2012), ed. by Diana Oblinger (at educause.edu PDF and HTML files with commentary at Educause)
• Structures of Participation in Digital Culture (2007), ed. by Joe Karaganis (PDF with commentary at ssrc.org)
• When Media Are New: Understanding the Dynamics of New Media Adoption and Use (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2010), by John Carey and M. C. J. Elton (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Advisory Committee on Industrial Innovation Final Report (Washington: GPO, 1979), by United States Advisory Committee on Industrial Innovation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Applications of R&D in the Civil Sector: The Opportunity Provided by the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977 (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Census of State Government Initiatives for High-Technology Industrial Development (1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (New York: Penguin Press, 2004), by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at free-culture.cc)

• Viet Nam at the Crossroads: The Role of Science and Technology, by Keith Bezanson, Jan Annerstedt, Kun Mo Chung, David Hopper, Geoffrey Oldham, and Francisco Sagasti (HTML at idrc.ca)

• Informing Innovation: Tracking Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies at Ohio University (Chicago: Association for College and Research Libraries, 2009), by Char Booth (PDF at ala.org)

• Democratizing Innovation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2005), by Eric von Hippel (PDF files at MIT)
• Information and Telecommunication Technologies: The Impact of Their Adoption on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (1996), by Elisabeth Lefebvre and Louis A. Lefebvre (HTML at idrc.ca)

• Beyond Fun: Serious Games and Media (c2008), ed. by Drew Davidson
  • multiple formats with commentary at CMU
  • HTML with commentary at Booktrope
• The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, c2009), by Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg, contrib. by Zoë Marie Jones (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Cultivating Careers: Professional Development for Campus IT (Boulder, CO: Educause, 2006), ed. by Cynthia Golden (PDF and HTML files with commentary at Educause)
• Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies (c2012), ed. by Diana Oblinger (at educause.edu PDF and HTML files with commentary at Educause)
• Hacking the Academy: The Edited Volume (2011), by Daniel J. Cohen, ed. by Tom Scheinfeldt (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding, and Supporting Games Education (text-only version; c2010), by José P. Zagal
  • multiple formats with commentary at CMU
  • HTML with commentary at Booktrope
• Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge (2008), ed. by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar (PDF files at MIT Press)

• Nanomedicine: Basic Capabilities, by Robert A. Freitas (frame-dependent HTML at nanomedicine.com)
• Sources of Medical Technology: Universities and Industry, ed. by Nathan Rosenberg, Annetine C. Gelijns, and Holly V. Dawkins (page images at NAP)

• Information and Telecommunication Technologies: The Impact of Their Adoption on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (1996), by Elisabeth Lefebvre and Louis A. Lefebvre (HTML at idrc.ca)

• Risk and Decision Making: Perspectives and Research, by National Research Council Committee on Risk and Decision Making (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Impact of Advanced Air Transport Technology (4 volumes, 1980-1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • Part I: PDF files at Princeton
  • Part II: PDF files at Princeton
  • Part III: PDF files at Princeton
  • Part IV: PDF files at Princeton

• Black and Smokeless Powders: Technologies for Finding Bombs and the Bomb Makers, by National Research Council Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Black and Smokeless Powders: Technologies for Finding Bombs and the Bomb Makers, by National Research Council Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets, by Andy Kessler (HTML with commentary at Booktrope)

• Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library (2006), by Martha L. Brogan (PDF and HTML at diglib.org)
• Working Together or Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship (Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2009) (PDF at clir.org)

• The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual (2000), by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger (HTML at cluetrain.com)

• Expanding the Vision of Sensor Materials, by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images at NAP)

• Media, Technology, and Society: Theories of Media Evolution (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), ed. by W. Russell Neuman (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Emerging Technologies in Distance Education (c2010), ed. by George Veletsianos (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

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