There has been a tendency in innovation/governance studies to assume that innovation precedes regulation, but we take it that this dynamic varies by scientific-technological zone or sector, as suggested by the STS analyses described here, requiring elaboration through empirical case study.
Drawing on the work by Behague et al. (2009), Street (2009) and Erwin (2006), elaboration of this specific case study will illustrate the importance of ensuring that blood procurement policies and practices reflect local beliefs and cultural context rather than relying only on uniform, one-size-fits-all global policies and strategies.
The Ploučnice case study allowed for further elaboration of the concept of local enrichment factors in pollution assessment of fluvial sediments, which efficiently reduces the grain-size effects (the impact of hydraulic sorting) and hence allows for reconstruction of the pollution history.
This case study, besides having the objective of identifying the comprehensiveness of the patterns for the elaboration of an RD and the usability of the computational support, also aimed to understand the students' perception regarding the proposed reuse approach for the elaboration of an RD (by means of patterns and requirements contained in the repository).
This paper demonstrates that the case study design is not only used for theory-building, but can also be combined with theory elaboration.
On the one hand, Eisenhardt herself has provided a broader spectrum of case study research designs in her own empirical papers, for example, by combining theory-building and theory elaboration (Bingham and Eisenhardt 2011).
Ornithopods constitute an excellent case study in evolution because, as the various lineages arise and die out from the latest Triassic to the latest Cretaceous, trends in size, complications and elaborations of teeth and chewing mechanisms, adaptations for quadrupedal posture in some forms, and other changes emerge clearly from their phylogenetic patterns.
Of the five categories in the multicriteria framework, this case study found both that the REEP House can be viewed as a leader amongst these GDHs and that improvement and elaboration of the assessment techniques are still possible.
In the current case study about the abandoned Kettara mine site, the impact of the old mining activity is assessed by the design and elaboration of an environmental database which will be supported by Geographic Information System (GIS) technology.
