Constantly pushing for the highest level of technological capability can distort priorities when a 'good enough' solution may in many areas be sufficient".
In addition, we find that an intermediate level of recombination – formed by a combination of components from local, adjacent and distant knowledge domains – carries the highest level of technological impact of all types of inventions.
Second, we distinguish between different levels of recombination (low, intermediate, high) and determine their differential impact, thereby establishing which type of recombination leads to the highest level of technological impact.
Upon reaching higher levels of technological capabilities, firms become more reliant upon patents and less on utility models.
Adopting licensing-in practices improves innovative performance in industries with relatively (1) high levels of technological opportunities, (2) low levels of cumulativeness, and (3) high levels of appropriability.
Singapore's government has responded by pushing industry into even higher levels of technological sophistication and prodding citizens to forsake an assembly-line mentality for more creative endeavors, biomedical research and entrepreneurial ventures.
At sufficiently high levels of technological progress, in other words, there is nothing a human can do that a machine can't.Human labour is necessary in order to do required tasks that aren't yet automatable.
Results indicate that the innovative activity in green ICT domains is characterised by high growth and high levels of technological pervasiveness, considerable entry of new innovators and a variety of actors – with a prevalence of large ICT firms and universities.
While one group of educators is trying to quantify digital literacy ("Measuring Literacy in a World Gone Digital," Business Day, Jan . 17, some of us see high levels of technological savvy in the increasing amount of plagiarism engaged in by our students.
For example, Rochester, Minnesota, where the Mayo Clinic dominates the scene, has fantastically high levels of technological capability and quality, but its Medicare spending is in the lowest fifteen per cent of the country—$6,688 per enrollee in 2006, which is eight thousand dollars less than the figure for McAllen.
