Science as a map in technological search

Article Abstract:

It is argued that scientific research increases the rate of technological advance, and economic growth. Science acts like a map--providing inventors with a sense of the underlying technological landscape they search, and allowing them to avoid the difficulties inherent in trying to combine highly coupled components.

Research and Testing Services, Scientific Research and Development Services, Administration of Air and Water Resource and Solid Waste Management Programs, Science, Research & Development, Basic Research, Solid Waste R&D, Analysis

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Letting the market work for you: an evolutionary perspective on product strategy

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Issues related to management choices concerning the number and variety of products to be manufactured are examined. Topics include how the competitive environment affects product strategy, product culling, and the relative advantages of producing many multiple or few homogenous products.

Product management, Production control, Production (Economics)

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Finding the right mix: franchising, organizational learning, and chain performance

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Entrepreneurs managing franchised establishments are well placed to learn through experimentation, although most companies prefer to diffuse this information through company-owned units. Restaurant chains provide significant support for this trade-off.

Business, Management, Wealth, Chain restaurants, Restaurant chains, Franchises, Entrepreneurship

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