Process industries are characterised by large fixed items of capital equipment. This paper
asks how innovation takes place once these plants are built. Stretch is the mechanism by …

The Steel Industry in Japan: A comparison with Britain Page 1 Page 2 The Steel Industry in
Japan The Japanese steel industry has experienced both boom and recession over the past 30 …

CO2 emissions have been identified as the main driver for climate change, with devastating
consequences for the global natural environment. The steel industry is responsible for~ 7 …

The article deals with the diffusion of two major innovations in the world's steel industry, the
oxygen steel process and continuous casting. Twenty-one countries, including the socialist …

The European Community has gradually emerged as a sui generis association of sovereign
States. It is neither a typical international organisation, based on intergovernmental …

Blue Danube was the first British atom bomb deployed during the Cold War. The article
focuses on practical issues of design, production, deployment, maintenance and testing of …

Many firms have been taking up the environmental challenge, primarily by implementing
incremental technological changes in their production systems. We believe that incremental …

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Steel is the basic material of industrialisation; and also of war. For Britain in the eighteenth
century, iron and steel was the cornerstone of the industrial revolution; for Germany, a …

The steel industry pioneered the use of computers for process control. By the mid 1960s,
almost a fifth of the world's process control computers were installed in the steel industry …