Mr. Hennon said that the Commission would prefer countries to work toward best practices of recycling and reducing waste rather than to invest in what he says are intermediary technologies.
Several types of hybrid organisations have emerged in the areas where institutional spheres overlap, functioning as intermediary actors: technology centres, approval and testing laboratories, technology parks, science parks, research support services, innovation centres, technology platforms, patent offices, business incubators and KTOs.
Their project, called Autonomous Interactive Intermediaries, uses technology like speech recognition to screen calls to determine when a phone should ring, and even subtle, silent visual cues to replace cellphone rings or vibrations -- say, an animatronic rabbit or parrot turning toward you in a room to signal that you have a call.
Smart Contracts are a way of transporting anything of value — money, shares or data — without an intermediary, and Ethereum technology makes this possible.
They found that R&D-related activities may share around a half of a budget of a technology intermediary center and consequently these form an important element of absorptive capacity.
According to Spithoven et al. (2011), SMEs lack absorptive capacity and hence technology intermediaries are useful for them.
The inter-organizational network or technology intermediaries are potential knowledge pools where SMEs can seek new technologies for radical as well as incremental innovation.
On the other hand, as the absorptive capacity is also considered as a pre-condition to open innovation, technology intermediaries play an important role to help SMEs build up their ability to cope with the knowledge searching and exploitation during the inbound open innovation process (Kodama 2008; Spithoven et al. 2010).
Technology is humanizing objects, and designers are acting as intermediaries, helping us interpret technology and translate it into a language that we can more intuitively understand.
Although they compete directly against the taxi industry, they've labeled themselves "technology companies" — intermediaries that simply connect willing workers with paying customers.
