Establishing Project Feasibility for Emerging Technology Projects: An Independent Engineer’s Perspective

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Demme
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The Status ◽  
Alternate Fuels ◽  
Specific Project

Technology suppliers, waste system managers and project developers across North America are endeavoring to find and implement new approaches to converting the energy in waste to electricity or alternate fuels. These entities, as well as potential financiers and communities that might benefit from these emerging technologies, often retain an independent engineer to assist in establishing the status and risks of the technology itself or the feasibility a specific project that has been proposed. Although independent engineering assessments are a well-established element of the non-recourse finance process, individuals and organizations new to the development process are often unfamiliar with the usefulness and content of these assessments. In the context of emerging technology-based projects, this paper will provide an overview of the role of an independent engineer in the development process, explain the typical assessment process, and discuss the content of a typical independent engineering report (“IE Report”).

From Lock-In to Transformation: A Path-Centric Theory of Emerging Technology an Organizing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian T. Pentland ◽  
Youngjin Yoo ◽  
Jan Recker ◽  
Inkyu Kim
Keyword(s):  
Drug Discovery ◽  
Dynamic Simulation ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Pharmaceutical Drug ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Lock In

We offer a path-centric theory of emerging technology and organizing that addresses a basic question. When does emerging technology lead to transformative change? A path-centric perspective on technology focuses on the patterns of actions afforded by technology in use. We identify performing and patterning as self-reinforcing mechanisms that shape patterns of action in the domain of emerging technology and organizing. We use a dynamic simulation to show that performing and patterning can lead to a wide range of trajectories, from lock-in to transformation, depending on how emerging technology in use influences the pattern of action. When emerging technologies afford new actions that can be flexibly recombined to generate new paths, decisive transformative effects are more likely. By themselves, new affordances are not likely to generate transformation. We illustrate this theory with examples from the practice of pharmaceutical drug discovery. The path-centric perspective offers a new way to think about generativity and the role of affordances in organizing.

scholarly journals Metropolitan Philaret (Drozdov) and Russian Сhurch Policy in the Holy Land in the 1850s–1860s

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
Irina Smirnova
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Church Policy

The issues raised in the article refer to the problems of Church diplomacy of Russia and other great powers in the Middle East in the 1850–1860’s when Russian diplomacy, both secular and church, faced the task of developing new approaches, first of all, in shaping the sphere of Russian interests in the Middle and Far East. Church policy of Russia in the Christian East in the 1850s–1860s is observed through the prism of the position of the Metropolitan of Moscow Filaret (Drozdov, 1782–1867), an outstanding church figure whose position determined the development of Russian church presence abroad not only in the Holy Land, but also in China and North America. The role of Metropolitan Filaret is presented in the forefront of such issues as the development of inter-church relations between the Russian Church with the Patriarchates of the East, the formation of the concept of Russian-Greek, Russian-Arab and Russian-Slavic relations, the interaction and contradictions of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission and the Russian consulate in Jerusalem.

Emerging Technology Skills among Library Professionals of Autonomous Engineering College Libraries in Karnataka

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-32
Author(s):  
P. Rathna ◽  
K. Divyananda
Keyword(s):  
Professional Education ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Technology Skills ◽  
Information Centre ◽  
Library System ◽  
The Status ◽  
Workforce Skills ◽  
Library Professionals

Library and information centre are of perennial importance to professional education institutions through all ages. Success of any library system depends on its workforce. Skills and abilities of library professionals plays vital role in serving their users to make them successful in their academic endeavors. Emerging technology Skills of library professionals working in autonomous Engineering College of Karnataka are analyzed to find the status of their skills and to make further recommendations. It is found that library professionals are having better skills in handling emerging technologies. Recommendations are made to improve skills further through various suggested ways.

3 Sources of Funding

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ransome Clive ◽  
Pridgeon Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Project Finance ◽  
Export Credit ◽  
Bank Debt ◽  
Development Finance ◽  
Specific Project ◽  
Sources Of Capital

From the very beginning of the development process relating to any specific project, the project’s sponsors will continually assess and analyse the best available sources of capital for the project. The sponsors will seek to obtain funding at the lowest achievable cost; they will seek to minimize as far as practicable the sponsors’ equity contribution and will look to achieve the longest-possible debt tenors. This chapter discusses a variety of sources potentially available to sponsors pursuing a project finance funding plan. These sources include equity, equity bridge loans, subordinated shareholder debt, mezzanine debt, bank debt, Islamic project finance, capital markets, public sector lenders in project financings, export credit finance, multilateral agencies and development finance institutions, and leveraged and finance lease arrangements. The chapter concludes with an overview of the reasons for entering into, and a description of the role of, term sheets, letters of intent, commitment letters, and mandate letters.

scholarly journals Urbanisation and Food Security: An Overview

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Uzair Azizan ◽  
Maryanti Mohd Raid ◽  
Khadijah Hussin
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Impact ◽  
National Food Security

Urbanisation has given significant impact to various sectors, particularly in agriculture. Essentially, agricultural production activities depend heavily on land resources. At the same time, land is also needed as vital resources for the country development. Despite of the initiative of urbanism to better the country development process, it has raised concern among the land administrator regarding the status of the national’s food security. Food security has been threatened by the needs of the physical development due to urbanisation. Therefore, this article attempts to study the impact of urbanisation on the agriculture sector and examined the role of urbanism to safeguard the land resources for food security purposes. It is hope that, this article will form an inclusive understanding regarding the idea of urbanism in pursuing the betterment of an economic progress without compromising the needs for the national food security.

scholarly journals The Modern Offal Eaters

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
jeremy strong
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
The Status

This paper considers the manner in which offal is discussed and figured in contemporary cookery books and television programmes in Britain and North America. Arguing that offal has become largely the preserve of an affluent culinary cognoscenti, it uses and adapts the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu to examine the value of offal in terms of the status its preparation and consumption may confer. The role of key opinion formers in effecting this transformation is charted, as is the process by which less economically-favoured consumers have been distanced from offal and primary foodstuffs generally.

Northern Europe by 2030: Contours and Algorithms of Development

2011 ◽  
pp. 59-69
Author(s):  
K. Voronov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
The United States ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Relative Reduction ◽  
The Status ◽  
External Driving ◽  
The Eu

The author proposes a forecast concerning the development of the Northern Europe countries up to 2030. The region is in direct dependence on international political developments. At least, these include: global change of the West’s role and place in the next world; the relative reduction of the role of the United States in the system of the Transatlantic connections; transformation of the EU as an independent “center of power”. Therefore, it is important to assess not only different national factors and correlation between internal and external driving forces in their development process, but also some “invariables” relating to the status of states under consideration.

Pentecostal Women in Colombia: Religious Change and the Status of Working-Class Women

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelia B. Flora
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
The Status ◽  
Working Class Women ◽  
Catholic Churches ◽  
The Church

There has been much discussion of the role of the church in social change in Latin America (Considine, 1964; D'Antonio and Pike, 1964; Haddox, 1965; Houtart and Pin, 1965; Jimenez, 1967; Lalive, 1968; Silvert, 1967; Willems, 1967). Recent arguments contrast a view that the church is integral and innovative in the development process (Vallier, 1970) with the view that the church is reactive and survival oriented, thus incapable of playing a leadership role in the process of social change (Mutchler, 1971). Both of these arguments specify the church as an instrumental force, interacting with other bureaucracies both internal and external to the country, in the process of development. The incursion of non-Catholic churches into Latin America is seen as important in influencing the established church as an actor in the change process, as well as serving as an initiator—or retarder—of change.

scholarly journals Trust in robot futures: The role of sociotechnical potential

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Jesse de Pagter
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
General Overview ◽  
Technological Potential ◽  
The Future ◽  
Trust In Technology ◽  
To Come

The aim of this paper is to develop an approach that conceptualizes the role of sociotechnical potential in the discourse around trust in emerging technology. Thereby it focuses on robotics as an example of an emerging technology which is subject to many expectations concerning its future. The paper first provides a general overview of the thinking on trust in philosophy of technology. In the section after that, the paper argues for the importance of adding the perspective of technological potential by emphasizing how the discourse around emerging technologies like robotics is often referring to a world-to-come. Based on this idea, the final section argues for an approach to trust in technology that is based on the perspective of multiplicity of technology narratives. As such, the goal is to build and foster trust in the future of robots based on a notion of technodiversity.

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