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Social Issues
Jeroen Hopster
Summary: The scholarly discourse on disruptive technologies has been primarily influenced by disruptive innovation theory, which focuses on disruptions in markets and business, but lacks the ability to analyze the broader social, moral, and existential dynamics of technosocial disruption. This paper aims to reorient scholarly discussion around a broader notion of technosocial disruption, raising questions about how it differs from disruptive innovation, its relation to disruptor and disruptiveness, and the criteria for assessing the social disruptiveness of technologies. It proposes technosocial disruption as a key focus for future scholarship on the interactions between technology and society.
TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Aerospace
Gianpiero Buzzo, Lidia Travascio, Angela Vozella, Mauro Baldizzone, Monica Gily, Clarissa Casagrande, Vincenzo Martina, Emanuele Quarona
Summary: The rapid technological change has heavily impacted transportation, with hybrid-electric propulsion emerging as a viable alternative for ground, marine, and aviation industries due to its advantages in fuel savings, reduced pollution, and lower noise emissions. This disruptive technology requires an evolution in the certification approach, which should be based on a safety assessment integrated into the system's development. The Certification Approach for Disruptive Technologies adopts a top-down process to identify and propose solutions for certification gaps.
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Management
Joshua S. Gans
Summary: This paper examines how a firm's choice of experiment type affects its ability to exploit new technological opportunities. It shows that firms tend to choose experiments that minimize false positives (a high-bar) or minimize false negatives (a low-bar), rather than striking a balance between the two. These choices differ between incumbents and entrants based on their fundamentals and anticipation of competition.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2023)
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Construction & Building Technology
Foteini Setaki, Arjan van Timmeren
Summary: This paper focuses on the intersection of the circular economy, the building industry, and disruptive technological innovations. It analyzes how disruptive, often digital, technologies can enable a circular economy in the building industry, particularly in the construction and demolition phases.
BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Editorial Material
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Jon Rueda, Jonathan Pugh, Julian Savulescu
Summary: Emerging reprogenetic technologies have the potential to enhance the genes of future generations, and this raises ethical questions and may also impact moral views on reproductive choices and notions of justice and equality.
TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Business
Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Victor Chang, Nada A. Nabeeh
Summary: This paper introduces a framework utilizing disruptive technologies for COVID-19 analysis, aiming to control the spread of the pandemic, ensure the safety of healthcare teams, and maintain patients' well-being, providing guidance for governments to mitigate the impact of COVID-19.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2021)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Billy J. Stanbery, Michael Woodhouse, Jao van de Lagemaat
Summary: To achieve the decarbonization of global electrical systems using photovoltaics (PVs) in the 2050-2060 decade, 63.4 TW of PV would need to be installed. This article explores a model for ramping up PV manufacturing toward this goal, assuming financially rational decisions by investors. The study demonstrates that sustainable manufacturing ramp-up is possible and that the introduction of disruptive technologies can accelerate and reduce the cost of deploying the necessary manufacturing capacity.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Xiwen Liu, Xuezhao Wang, Lucheng Lyu, Yanpeng Wang
Summary: Identifying disruptive technologies is crucial for technology layout and investment decision-making. This paper proposes two methods based on multi-source data to identify disruptive technologies, and their effectiveness is validated through case studies.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Hafiz Suliman Munawar, Mohammad Mojtahedi, Ahmed W. A. Hammad, Abbas Kouzani, M. A. Parvez Mahmud
Summary: This paper discusses the importance of integrating disruptive technologies into smart cities to improve disaster response infrastructure, and explores methods and approaches to enhance urban post-disaster management using these technologies.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Business
Anett Erdmann, Jose Manuel Mas, Mercedes de Obesso
Summary: This research identifies behavioral variables that can modify the price perception of new technological products, that is, increase or decrease critical price thresholds. Van Westendorp's price sensitivity meter, as a direct value-based pricing method, is receiving increasing attention to identify critical price thresholds for new technologies. We rely on arguments from the theory of planned behavior to explore what changes consumers' acceptable price levels. By considering a set of disruptive technologies (augmented reality smart glasses, 3D printers, writing robots, self-driving cars, hoverboard robots), a structural approach is used to explore consumers' perceived threshold prices. The main results suggest that social pressure increases the perceived minimum price and price sensitivity can be decreased by evoking perceived ease of use.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Manish Banker, Silke Dyer, Georgina M. Chambers, Osamu Ishihara, Markus Kupka, Jacques de Mouzon, Fernando Zegers-Hochschild, G. David Adamson
Summary: The report provides data on the utilization, effectiveness, and safety of assisted reproductive technology (ART) globally in 2013, showing an increase in ART cycles and changes in trends such as a rise in the proportion of older women undergoing non-donor ART. Further efforts are needed to improve the quality and consistency of reporting ART data by registries.
FERTILITY AND STERILITY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Won Young Park, Nihar Shah, Kenji Shiraishi, Edward Vine
Summary: Advancements in appliance and equipment systems' technologies require updates to energy performance evaluation methods and policies to adapt to the innovation and changes in technology.
ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Business
Samuel Ogbeibu, Vijay Pereira, Jude Emelifeonwu, James Gaskin
Summary: To sustain competitive advantage, employees must be willing to generate and pursue creative ideas. Utilizing smart human resource management technology (SHRMT) effectively to drive the exchange of creative ideas in work teams is crucial. However, under disruptive technological conditions, collective creative idea generation may not sufficiently guarantee willingness to exert increased creative behavior.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Computer Science, Information Systems
Asma Cherif, Arwa Badhib, Heyfa Ammar, Suhair Alshehri, Manal Kalkatawi, Abdessamad Imine
Summary: Credit card fraud is a serious problem due to emerging technologies like contactless payment. This article provides an in-depth review of cutting-edge research from 2015 to 2021 on detecting and predicting fraudulent credit card transactions. The study reveals limited investigation into deep learning, highlighting the need for more research to address challenges in detecting fraud using new technologies. This study serves as a valuable resource for academic and industrial researchers in evaluating fraud detection systems and designing solutions.
JOURNAL OF KING SAUD UNIVERSITY-COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Social Issues
Guido Lohr
Summary: New technologies have the potential to disrupt established social practices and fundamental concepts, causing changes in the relationships between concepts. Philosophers should focus on understanding the change in networks of interrelated concepts rather than individual conceptual change.
TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY
(2023)