innovation

Examples of innovation in the following topics:

• Innovation

  • All organizations can innovate, including hospitals, universities, and local governments.
  • In society, innovation aids in comfort, convenience, and efficiency in everyday life.
  • There are several sources of innovation.
  • One driver for innovation programs in corporations is to achieve growth objectives.
  • Once innovation occurs, innovations may be spread from the innovator to other individuals and groups.

• Cultural Lag

  • The term "cultural lag" refers to the fact that culture takes time to catch up with technological innovations, resulting in social problems.
  • Cultural lag can occur when technological innovation outpaces cultural adaptation.
  • The term cultural lag refers to the notion that culture takes time to catch up with technological innovations, and that social problems and conflicts are caused by this lag.

• Modernization and Technology

  • From the perspective of Western societies, one of the most important epochs for technological innovation was the Renaissance, which spanned roughly the 14th through 17th centuries starting from Italy and spreading throughout the rest of Europe.
  • Modernization continues apace today as technologies spread into areas that were previously less technologically advanced and as new innovations are introduced almost daily.
  • These processes may be considered the phase of technological innovation following the Industrial Revolution, which some have labeled the Information Revolution.
  • Modernization through technological innovation is seen by modernization theorists as a key way that poor countries can "catch up" to the developed world.

• Types of Social Movements

  • Type of Change: A movement might seek change that is either innovative or conservative.
  • An innovative movement wants to introduce or change norms and values while a conservative movement seeks to preserve existing norms and values.

• Capitalism in a Global Economy

  • Information, goods, ideas, and cultural norms are able to spread more quickly around the world than ever before, largely due to innovations and price drops in the telecommunications industry.
  • For example, these innovations have allowed Coca Cola to spread its goods around the world.

• Bureaucracies and Formal Groups

  • The competition is "aimed at identifying innovative suggestions for reducing unnecessary bureaucracy stemming from European law".
  • The competition is "aimed at identifying innovative suggestions for reducing unnecessary bureaucracy stemming from European law".

• Problems in Forecasting Population Growth

  • Death rates could fall unexpectedly due to advances in medicine or innovations that stretch resources so population can continue to grow past what seemed like intractable resource limits.
  • In the future, production might be increased by innovations such as genetically modified crops, more efficiently employing agricultural technology, and aquaculture.
  • The Green Revolution was a period of rapid technological innovation in agricultural, which made food resources more widely available than expected and thus reduced the global mortality rate.

• Symbols and Nature

  • What results is an indefinite number of possible innovative utterances from a finite number of elements.

• Formal Structure

  • Informal organization can accelerate and enhance responses to unanticipated events, foster innovation, enable people to solve problems that require collaboration across boundaries, and create paths where the formal organization may someday need to pave a way.

• Disinvestment and Deindustrialization

  • As economies that were once industrial improve their methods through technological innovation, businesses will find ways to increase productivity or product growth while decreasing the amount of resources they need to devote to production.
  • This process took a heavy toll on an auto industry, which was already losing jobs due to technological innovations that required less manual labor.