Technische Universität Berlin Faculty of Economics and Management Chair for Technology and Innovationmanagement Case 1: From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Gr. By Willy Shih & Nancy Hua Dai Case Seminar on Strategic Innovation Management Summer Term 2011 Name: Simon Delcourt Marc Esslinger Dennis Fakner Matriculation Number 337929 337772 331557 #Words: 399 Question 1: Originally‚ Zongshen sold engines for motorcycles which were mainly knock-offs Japanese motorcycle
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During the rise of the humanities in the late fifteenth century and onwards‚ imitation was often considered an acceptable and even an intellectual practice. Neo-classism supports the idea that imitation was the best way to learn and develop style and many authors from both the classical era and the eighteenth century recommended that students use imitation as a tool (Buelow‚ 1990). So when did society stop seeing imitation as a form of flattery and instead a form of cheating and unoriginality‚ and
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The humanities engage both our intellectual and our intuitive‚ emotional selves... and this sets them apart from those areas Art‚ which is an important which aim at being rigidly empirical‚ objective‚ factual. component of the humanities‚ takes life for Delight and pleasure in the arts can arise from casual its subject matter‚ with sensualism in the aural‚ tactile man as its main or visual experiences they component. It relates to evoke. But the knowledge of almost everything that how the (art) works
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How do humans acquire language? In 1966‚ Allen and Beatrice Gardner undertook an experiment to find out whether humans’ ability to acquire language is innate or whether it is learnt; the ‘Nature vs. Nurture’ debate. To help them understand whether it is innate or not‚ they chose an animal known for not only being intelligent‚ but also for being sociable and able to form strong bonds with human beings: the chimpanzee. They made sure to emphasise the importance of sociability when they chose their
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art and its respected uses‚ after which I will discuss the ideas of Aristotle to show that the tragic drama fulfills Plato’s requirements exhibiting qualities of measurement and finds its intended purpose. “While Plato insists that artistic imitation‚ especially tragedy‚ feeds the passions and misleads the seeker after truth‚ Aristotle answers that the arts in general are valuable because they repair the deficiencies in nature and that tragic drama in particular is justifiable because of the
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Aristotle’s Poetics December 19‚ 2010 1. The Concept of Imitation In The Poetics‚ Aristotle asserts that literature is a function of human nature’s instinct to imitate. This implies that as humans‚ we are constantly driven to imitate‚ to create. By labeling this creative impulse an “instinct‚” one is to believe that this desire for imitation is a matter of survival‚ of necessity. The question then arises‚ of what does one feel compelled to imitate and in what way does it aid in our survival
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Chapter 3 Evaluating a Firm’s Internal Capabilities Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education‚ Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall. 3-1 Evaluating a Firm’s Internal Capabilities What Does Internal Analysis Tell Us? Internal analysis provides a comparative look at a firm’s capabilities • what are the firm’s strengths? • what are the firm’s weaknesses? • how do these strengths & weaknesses compare to competitors? Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education‚ Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall. 3-2 Evaluating a
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pleasure‚ anger‚ and so on. Here are four hypotheses that state that language began through some imitation of natural sounds or movements. 1-The "ding-dong" hypothesis: humans started naming objects and actions from sound related to it in real life. It states that the first human words were a kind of verbal icon .as an example use word boom for explosion. Some words in language are imitation of natural sounds associated with some object: Chinook Indian word for heart. 2-"pooh-pooh" hypothesis
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Mimesis: Plato and Aristotle 1‚515 Words Philosophy 2348: Aesthetics\ The term ‘mimesis’ is loosely defined as ‘imitation’‚ and although an extensive paper could be written about the cogency of such a narrow definition‚ I will instead focus on Plato and Aristotle’s contrasting judgements of mimesis (imitation). I will spend one section discussing Plato’s ideas on mimesis and how they relate to his philosophy of reality and the forms. I will then spend a section examining Aristotle’s differing
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unknown type of neuron. These mirror neurons provide a neural basis for everyday imitation and observational learning. When a monkey grasps‚ holds‚ or tears something‚ these neurons fire. And they likewise fire
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