Is entrepreneurship covered in economics doctoral programs? Updating an earlier study (Johansson 2004), we examine leading programs in the United States and Sweden by textual analysis of textbooks and assigned articles in microeconomics, macroeconomics, and industrial organization courses. We find that coverage of entrepreneurship in textbooks is s...
This paper introduces the proposal of the philosopher Gilbert Simondon about the individuation process, according to which the being is in the process of becoming and can be out of phase to solve his tensions and give rise to physical or living individuals that constitute a system and go through a series of metastable equilibria. In addition, as a ...
In this work, technological trends were identified for the production of sweetening syrup and the use of whey by means of a review of patents in the databases of Espacenet, Google Patent Search and the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce of Colombia (SIC). A total of 226 documents were found, out of those 119 are international patents, and 107...
The unintended economic effect on society as result of individual behaviour —Adam Smith’s ‘Invisible Hand’ of economic progress in the eighteenth century — had its equivalent in technological progress. In the nineteenth century, again individual behaviour with its Acts of Innovation and Acts of Business had an unintended effect. It changed not only...
This article examines the circulation of technological knowledge from two episodes of the invention of henequen decorticating machines. In these events the importance of the mobility of social actors and displacement of knowledge for the configuration of new devices is analyzed. Also, emphasis is placed on the sociotechnical conditions and the orie...
The Cuban to update the social economic model encounters an analysis of weaknesses, fortresses and opportunities of the system of science, technology and invention in Cuba applied about the Company of High-Tech and his future projection in the forms of step of the public sector in the article. A critical analysis of his juridical handle that you ha...
The article discusses three intertwined issues posed by the modern biotechnological immunology and its creativity potential: invention, naturalness and Being. In the first part, the author reflects on evolutionary paradigm and Peter Sloterdijk’s theory of immunology, particularly in their relation to the biotechnological enhancement of human beings...
This study contributes to the current literature on open innovation by analysing the effects of open innovation activities on the introduction of new-to-the-world innovations versus imitation. We base our analysis on data provided by the Eurostat Community Innovation Survey (CIS) carried out in Germany in 2012, which for the first time made a disti...
Published in JACC. Basic to translational science
More than a decade ago, a formalized fellowship training program in medical device innovation, the first of its kind, was created at Stanford University. Now in its 15th year, the Stanford Biodesign Fellowship Program is a 10-month program whereby postgraduate students with a prior background in medicine, engineering, and/or business form interdisc...
Conférence invitée (ISP, Matadi, République Démocratique du Congo)
