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Innovation [7 records]

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Record 1 2015-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Ideologies
CONT

Innovation occurs when an individual accepts the goals of society, but rejects or lacks the socially legitimate means of achieving them.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des idéologies
CONT

Le comportement d'innovation consiste à accepter les buts fixés par la société, mais à utiliser pour les atteindre des moyens qui sont interdits ou réprouvés.

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Copyright, Patent and Trademark Law
  • Architectural Design
  • Construction
CONT

... the genesis of the product ... [may be]: 1. Invention - never conceived before ... 2. Invention - honing of an invention/a large change to an existing product ... 3. A mature design with incremental innovation....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Propriété industrielle et intellectuelle
  • Conception architecturale
  • Construction
DEF

Action de concevoir de nouveaux moyens techniques de réalisation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de propiedad industrial e intelectual
  • Diseño arquitectónico
  • Construcción
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Record 4 2003-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Periodicals
  • The Product (Marketing)
OBS

Ottawa: Industry Canada. Ceased with summer 1991.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de périodiques
  • Produit (Commercialisation)
OBS

Ottawa : Industrie Canada. A cessé de paraître à l'été 1991.

Spanish

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Record 5 2003-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A process during which a new object, idea or practice is adopted by an individual or an organization. Innovation consists of four phases: invention, development, diffusion and adoption.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Action d'introduire dans une chose établie qqch. de nouveau, d'encore inconnu.

Spanish

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Record 6 2000-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade
  • The Product (Marketing)
DEF

The use of a new idea, material, or technology by an industry or company to produce new goods or services or to change the way in which goods or services are produced or distributed.

OBS

Innovation can include improved managerial systems, new production techniques, new technology, the industrial results of research and development, or the application of information technologies to a business.

OBS

"Invention" is the actual discovery of something new while "innovation" is the application of something new.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce
  • Produit (Commercialisation)
DEF

Création et exploitation dynamique de produits, services ou procédés nouveaux à partir d'une découverte ou d'une invention.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comercio
  • Producto (Comercialización)
DEF

Acción de poner en práctica inventos propios de cualquier clase (de dispositivos, mecánicos o no), o procesos productivos nuevos que inciden en las estructuras de la producción y organización.

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Record 7 1998-05-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
  • Plant Biology
DEF

A growth or shoot of mosses which develops into a new plant by dying-off of portion of parent-plant behind it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
  • Biologie végétale
DEF

Rameau naissant au dessous des organes sexuels-antheridies sur l'axe principal d'une mousse et le dépassant en longueur par suite de leur croissance immédiate [...]

Spanish

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