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The jurisdiction against emerging technologies is a core process for designing “Technology Management for Social Innovation.” The concept of “Regulatory Science” (RS) in technology jurisdiction has a diverse range of meanings among its users in the medical field. Thus, the analysis of interactions between innovation and regulation is not generalized and includes systematic approaches. RS is categorized...
Global population of the elderly is growing. Assistive Technologies (ATs), e.g. monitoring health & safety, information sharing & telecare, communication support, independent living and long-term care, can be an important enabler for the elderly care services responses to the elderly quality of life.
Knowledge transfer in projects are more complex and challenging than such transfers in normal operations due to the temporary nature of project teams in which team members often do not see the capturing and transferring of knowledge across projects as important for long term benefits to the organization. Understanding how and why different communication media, computer-mediated or otherwise, are used...
The role of innovation within an organization is undeniably important. An organizational culture that embraces innovation is one that will encourage employees to behave innovatively. This investigation is set out to explore the determinants of innovation within an organization that will prompt employees to behave innovatively. The investigation suggests that when employees perceive a positive innovative...
This case study focuses on the antecedents that are linked to individual innovative behaviour as well as the innovative activities mentioned in the innovation surveys that lead to innovation. A literature review was performed in order to determine the most recognised antecedents to innovative behaviour as well as to understand innovative activities of companies, based on innovation surveys, performed...
This research investigates the management functions and skills required for co-operative development within the agri-business value chain in South Africa. The study was conducted in Mpumalanga province within South Africa. The province spent close to ZAR50 million through the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CRDP) in an endeavour to use the Co-operative model as a vehicle to create viable...
Compared to the economic effect, the social effect brought by innovation remains ignored by scholars. Inclusive innovation, which emphasizes the diversity of the stakeholders related to innovations, especially BOPs (the bottom of the pyramid) has been acknowledged as a possible solution to series of social problems such as imbalanced development and poverty. However, how innovation system achieve...
Brand is an important resource in the technical standards alliance. As a kind of essential resource utilization pattern, the brand joint is beneficial for enterprises in the alliance to realize the increment of value. The selection of cooperative partner is the first step of co-branding, which plays a significant role in co-branding. This paper emphasized the critical significance of alliance member...
In IT Industry, it is important for technology-based companies to make a flexible plan of technology development. Technology roadmapping which promotes to think of both Technology Push and Market Pull is one of the strategic tools for it. However, the following two engineer specific sets of values makes it difficult to practice: (i) a set of values to avoid forecasting technology based on doubtful...
In information technology (IT), new concept words appear every few years and affect the business environment. In several cases, the core technologies and architectures have remained the same despite minor changes in concepts. For example, grid computing is the forerunner of cloud computing and bigdata is now regarded as a part of the Internet of Things (IoT). The trend in concept words reveals an...
Ownership structure is the basic institutional arrangements of an enterprise and will affect its innovation strategy decision-making process, thereby affecting its innovation performance. With 20 listed auto companies and 72 auto parts companies in China as the sample, this study regards the annual R&D investment as the main factor affecting the innovation performance, the relative share proportion...
Although it has been said that conceiving potential needs and customers is important for realizing innovations, companies have had difficulty in getting through new product development (NPD) looking toward the prospective demand because of high risk. Former studies have shown that there are differences of NPD strategies employed by companies depending on whether one aims NPD for potential needs or...
Mobile Health or mHealth is an emerging concept of the use of mobile devices and wireless technology for healthcare purposes. Recently, mHealth-related technology is expected to form a new category of medical devices particularly in the monitoring of patients. This is also anticipated to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of pharmaceutical clinical trials. However, there are challenges to utilize...
International R&D collaboration is perceived as important R&D strategy to obtain complementary resources, learn from the partner as well as sharing risks and costs. Previous studies suggested that international R&D collaboration has positive impact but the impact investigated in literature are either not clearly defined or largely focused on business or technological impact. This study...
It is well understood that academic knowledge generated from basic research at university contribute to innovation in industrial sector. In order to demonstrate the degree to which academic knowledge contributes to innovation, we conducted multiple surveys on private corporations. Based on the results of our surveys, we have found the existence of a recognition gap between inventors and business managers...
Industrial innovation based on intellectual property is a key process for creating competitive advantage in this globalized environment of knowledge economy. IP as a way of protecting innovation is becoming essential for both commercial and strategic objectives. Therefore, it is of importance to understand the global patent family portfolio which has been barely investigated systematically. The objective...
Smart grid, as an emerging field, whose evolution is featured by radical innovation requires a great diversity of technologies from different disciplines. It has become rather difficult to figure out technological capability accumulation process throughout the evolutionary process. In order to unfold the “Buzzword”, we try to explore: how technological capability accumulated throughout the evolutionary...
Innovation is the distinctive theme of our times and innovation spirit is the greatest Zeitgeist. Innovation is the best generalization on human society but also the exemplification of Zeitgeist and soul. Competition in current is the competition of talent and science & technology strength, and innovation is the essence of science & technology. That can be found by looking back the history...
Governments across the globe establish systems to maintain diversity in specific industries and avoid the formation of oligopolistic market structures. The U.S. government has made special provisions for the country's pharmaceutical industry; namely, the Orange Book, Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA), and the Bolar Act. These three provisions combine into a special competing system that offers...
Water utility providers are liable for financial penalties and reputational damage for non-compliance with regulations regarding bio-waste handling and disposal. Social responsibility and compliance with regulations can be costly, and this paper discusses a study on approaches for reengineering logistics processes for bio-waste handling and disposal. The business process simulation model developed...
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