Browsing Technology and Policy - Master's degree by Title
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Balancing utility and privacy of high-dimensional datasets : mobile phone metadata
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Large-scale datasets of human behavior have the potential to fundamentally transform the way we develop cities, fight disease and crime, and respond to natural disasters. However, understanding the privacy of these data ... -
Barriers to the adoption of telemedicine as explained by the disruptive innovation framework
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Despite its development and suitability to many specialties of medicine for the past forty years and the driving demands of an aging population, telemedicine has not made significant progress in deployment or commercialization. ... -
Benefit from Web services in the mobile Internet industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Over the past five years, mobile Internet services in Japan have seen major expansion as a result of collaboration between mobile operators acting as mobile portal providers, and their complementors, namely, content ... -
Benefits of emerging transportation technologies : simulation analysis and policy issues
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This thesis explores the quantification of transportation technology benefits, through simultaneous consideration of technical and policy issues. Benefits are first defined and identified based on current literature and ... -
The benefits of structured training on manufacturing process ramp-up : a process based cost model approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Manufacturing facilities ramping up a new production process are faced with critical decisions, which determine the ability of that process to be cost efficient. Without quantitative analyses, these decisions are made with ... -
Best practices for industry-university research collaborations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This thesis reports a study of industry-university collaborations aimed at the development of best practices to enhance the impact of such collaborations on company competitiveness. The data sample involves twenty-five ... -
Best practices for the sustainable scaleup of lighting technologies in bottom of the pyramid communities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This thesis deduces a set of best practices for sustainably scaling up lighting technologies in developing countries with a focus on Bottom-of-the-Pyramid (BOP) communities, whose annual incomes are US $3000 or less (in ... -
Best practices for university-industry collaboration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This thesis reports findings from a study of best practices for university-industry collaboration. The study involved over 70 interviews at 17 large technology companies with company managers and individuals having ... -
Biological conversion of organic municipal solid waste to lactic acid : a techno-economic performance assessment study for commercialization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)This thesis assesses the economic viability and commercial potential of a lab-scale microbial technology to produce lactic acid (LA), which was developed as a novel technology option for organic waste treatment. Among ... -
Bits of power : the involvement of municipal electric utilities in broadband services
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Municipal electric utilities have been increasingly involved in telecommunications during the last decade. This research investigates why, with three hypotheses. First, the probability of MEUs involvement in telecommunications ... -
Bridging gaps in synthetic biology oversight : iGEM as a testbed for proactive, adaptive risk management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)On the surface, the emerging field of synthetic biology looks highly similar to that of genetic engineering. However, the two fields are based upon divergent underlying logic structures. Whereas genetic engineering affects ... -
Bridging the innovation gap through funding : the case of MIT Deshpande Center
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)The idea of gap-funding program, in which academic scientists are given research funding for developing proof-of-concept and prototype, has recently attracted attention as a policy measure of commercializing academic ... -
Building a biomedical cluster : a comparative study of MIT and Singapore
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Clusters comprise of a particular set of ingredients, which includes researchers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, well-trained and educated workers, and specialized professional services. The importance of each ingredient ... -
Building a national technology and innovation infrastructure for an aging society
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This thesis focuses on the potential of strategic technology innovation and implementation in sustaining an aging society, and examines the need for a comprehensive national technology and innovation infrastructure in the ... -
Building China's high-tech telecom equipment industry : a study of strategies in technology acquisition for competitive advantage
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)Over the past decade, China has witnessed a rapid growth in its information and communications technology (ICT) sector. The subject of this thesis specifically focuses on the telecommunications infrastructure equipment ... -
Building information systems to integrate the manufacturing supply chain
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Building innovation ecosystems to drive carbon neutral sustainability goals
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)Anthropogenic climate change is the defining sustainability challenge of the twenty-first century which city-level political leaders are attempting to address by setting carbon neutrality goals for their regions. To reach ... -
Can cable TV network boost broadband competition in Turkey? : developing policy implications for Turkey
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Turkey is one of the most important emerging markets in the world. Considering its young educated population prone to use computer technologies, Turkey can make more benefit from broadband services. Compared with OECD ... -
Can Nintendo get its crown back? : examining the dynamics of the U.S. video game console market
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Several generations of video game consoles have competed in the market since 1972. Overall, the entire market shares many similar characteristics, such as network effects and switching cost, which are found in other ... -
Can we reduce parking at MIT : design and development of a functional commuter dashboard
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)This thesis presents the design, development and initial implementation of a new commuter dashboard tool entitled AccessMyCommute for use by all MIT employees. This is the first in a series of new commuter benefit incentives ...
