Existing studies in Information Systems also suggest that homophily plays a very important role in the assimilation of technology [47].
Because success measured in tons of steel production depended more on brute-force capital formation and the assimilation of standard technologies than on entrepreneurship and innovation, the centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe were able, initially at least, to perform tolerably well.
Local firms direct their R&D activity primarily towards the assimilation of imported technology, and to providing a backup to their outward expansion via exports and FDI.
Although Iris van Herpen in 2006 completed her studies in fashion design at the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in the Netherlands, she had already emerged as the premier innovator in the full assimilation of high technology into advanced design.
Numerous calls have been made for greater assimilation of information technology in healthcare organizations in general, and in primary care settings in particular.
The approach encompasses three phases: technology assimilation, technology insertion and technology integration, following a sequence of modular, top-down and bottom-up design strategies.
In short, it is hard to see "the mind of God" at work in the social assimilation of science and technology.
First, synthetic biology, which operates at the confluence of biotechnology and computation, presents a particularly revealing example of a difficulty that the law has frequently faced over the last 30 years -- the assimilation of a new technology into the conceptual limits around existing intellectual property rights, with possible damage to both in the process.
Dr. Gray said Harvard needs someone who can deal with "the assimilation of the new information technologies, the questions that come out of the very rapid growth of scientific discovery, and the new ways in which various disciplines inform one another," among other things.
Assuming an official posture of encyclopaedic investigation and selective assimilation of Western culture and technology in the late 19th century, the Japanese cultural mainstream was systematically infused with the classical forms of Western painting, sculpture, and architecture.
