Technological progress

Suits, C.G. and Bueche, A.M. (1967) in Applied Science and Technological Progress A Report to the Committee on Science and Astronautics, US House of Representatives, by the National Academy of Sciences (US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC) p. 297. 

Movement to redirect technological progress has brought about an efficiency revolution and the notion of a new industrial revolution incorporating. 

As nations become more economically mature, two effects arc typically seen. One, the rate of economic growth necessarily slows, as the base ot economic activity expands and opportunities for easy expansion become more scarce. Two, the use of energy becomes more efficient as consumers and manufacturers become more knowledgeable about its use, and technological progress enables economic output to be produced with less energy input. 

Knowledge of chemical principles pays rewards in technological progress. Control of chemical reactions is the key. The large scale commercial production of nitrogen compounds provides a practical example of the beneficial application of Le Chatelier s Principle. 

AG.J. Voragen,(1989) Food eri2ymes Prospects and limitations In Roozen J.P., Rombouts F.M., Voragen A.GJ.(eds) Food science Basic research for Technological Progress, PUDOC, Wageningen, The Netherlands. 

Voragen, A.G.J. (1989). Food enzymes prospects and limitations. In J.P. Roozen, F.M. Rombouts and A.G.J. Voragen (Eds) Food science basic research for technological progress. Proceedings of the symposium in honour of Professor W. Pilnik. Pudoc Wageningen, pp 59-81. 

The most likely approximation of the true mechanism seems to be the Van der Meerakker proposal, which involves both chemical and electrochemical contributions and does not invoke unlikely intermediates. The exciton hypothesis may add a physical description to this chemical picture. The most important need in establishing the mechanism is better experimental verification. The disagreement concerning the mechanism, however, has not kept significant technological progress from being made. 

E. Rubin, H. Mantripragada, A. Marks, P. Versteeg, J. Kitchin The outlook for improved carbon capture technology. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 38(5). 2012. 

Scherer, F.M. (1993), Pricing, profits, and technological progress in the pharmaceutical industry , Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1 (3), 97-115. 

Much progress has been achieved in LEDs since the 1980s. They have become much more efficient and are now the point light sources of choice. Recent technological progresses in the color conversion by suitable phosphors has brought solid-state lighting nearer to reality.229... 

Ensure that the traditional division of chemistry and chemical engineering into subdisciplines does not impede scientific and technological progress. 

In most circumstances, performance-based standards are preferred by industry, as such standards tend not to limit innovative solutions or inhibit technological progress. The trend among SDOs and CDOs seems to favor performance-based requirements when feasible and when there is sufficient industry support for them during the development of a particular standard. Development of such requirements, in turn, often requires additional RD D to obtain data and conduct modeling and analysis. The DOE supports RD D needed to determine requirements that are to the extent possible performance-based. 

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