The paper analyses innovation histories of two agro-mechanical and two seed-based technologies with high and low technological complexity, introduced into simple and complex farming systems in Asia.
"By technological complexity, by importance, by uniqueness.
Only in the last 100,000 years have we had all the increase in technological complexity.
Some surveys of nurses have also found dissatisfaction with wages, hours, technological complexity, and administrative burdens.
Wayan Vota, senior mobile advisor at FHI 360, says radio is another perfect example of the fact that technological complexity doesn't necessarily correlate to big impact.
Because of the technological complexity of modern weapons and the preference in most countries for domestic suppliers, there is little competition in most military markets.
NetLogic, analysts say, was able to command a high premium because of its patent portfolio and the technological complexity of its products.
This seems to be due to the ways in which cities facilitate innovation in an age of rapidly increasing economic and technological complexity.
Vice President Al Gore, its most vocal backer in the Clinton administration, likened the project, known as the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles, to the Apollo space program in its technological complexity.
A new series of wireless routers from Belkin, scheduled to ship to stores in April, scales the technological complexity ladder from no-brainer installation to you-might-want-to-read-the-manual-first gear.
Discouragingly, it took two generations until a trade publication was able to declare in the 1880s that "every woman now knows how to use one".At about the same time, the increase in technological complexity gathered pace.
