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In order to deliver transportation project on time and within budget, project planners and decision makers need to understand the desirable outcomes of projects or programs to make intelligent decisions. In addition, they also need effective tools and techniques to guide those decisions. In development of a guide that identifies available tools and techniques to foster useable and improved practices...
Recent design studies have advocated how design practices enhance innovation in various fields. Indeed, the latest case study discovered that industrial designers can contribute even in natural science research. On the other hand, the majority of R&D management scholars and practitioners have long overlooked the value of collaboration between R&D engineers and industrial designers. To fill...
In the past, many researchers suggested a variety of supply chain network models which encompass both the upstream and downstream sides. However, most of the supply chain models were conceptual network map and focused on individual firm or industry level. In this paper, we analyzed and embodied more substantive supply chain network model based on the optimal database comprised of US patent data, STN...
The synergy of enterprise innovation network will not only improve the performance of innovation, but also improve the stability of network organization. So it is very important to study the influencing factors of synergy for enterprise innovation network. Paper summarized 11 influencing factors of innovation synergy from 4 dimensions based on the literature review. All 11 influencing factors are...
Patent citation is important to analyse technological ability of a company, however, it only tells the relationship between a pair of technologies or companies. Patent citation network constructed by the concept of social network could explore the relationship of companies within a whole network. This study builds up a model to locate the technological position by technological redundancy and centralities...
Abundance refers to the thesis that four emerging forces, namely exponential technologies, the Do-it-yourself (DIY) innovator, Technophilanthropists, and the Rising Billion, will solve the most significant and intractable world social problems. One such exponentially growing technology is the sensor. It has been estimated that there will be a trillion sensors, or “TSensors,” by 2020. These TSensors...
Land is immovable, thus, the transfer of landed property from a seller to a buyer and registration thereof involves conveying pertinent data and information between private and public sector agencies, firms, and institutions. Conveyancing processes, cadastres and land registers are intended to provide clarity with respect to legal rights and privileges associated with landed properties. Incorrect...
Innovation collaborations experienced a substantial growth, so that the research interest in factors contributing to successful collaboration increased. One important factor in this context are distances like technological and geographical distance. The distinction between objectively calculated and individually perceived distances provides possible starting points to bridge high distances. Therefore,...
To promote the creation of innovations, it is imperative that new technologies by universities are patented and transferred to private companies. This study aims to reveal the trends in and factors influencing PCT applications by Japanese universities. Data on 4,158 applications for 2008–2012 were collected from the J-PlatPat database and those for university performance, research activities, and...
The rapid development of information and communication technologies has made the Internet to become the main source of information, not to say a platform to share knowledge and information on a daily basis, consumed on various devices and platforms. This information consumption on the other hand produces data that can be used to measure user engagement into content and has been used for various purposes,...
In a highly competitive global business environment, the goal of Manufacturing Enterprise must be willingness to make strategic adjustments consistent with the demands of its environment Many companies' especially small and medium manufacturing enterprises (SMME's) face the biggest challenge of staving constant or even better to grow the profit. Competitive advantage based on operations is not a new...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) technology is believed as an effective approach to control and reduce CO2 emission in China. We take CO2 compressor in CCUS as object of research and technological backgrounds to build up a patent analysis model in both statistics and bibliometrics approaches for guiding patent technology transfer. Patent bibliometrics analysis is more progressive compared...
A 3-level Hierarchical Decision Model (HDM) 111 is established in this paper to help 18–30 year old college students make a decision of choosing a desirable digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) from 5 famous DSLR camera manufacturers. The HDM has been utilized in this paper, because it measures the relative contribution of each criterion to the final decision based on quantified judgments of the...
Bangladesh is one of the countries in South-Asian Region, which is dominated by agricultural production and the major portion of the rural livelihood is surviving on this sector. But the rural farmers of the country are still living under the poverty line. On the other hand, food safety and food adulteration problem currently are the burning issues not only in Bangladesh but also in other developing...
E-commerce has been rapidly growing in China, but the problem of low quality products is becoming more and more serious and has become one of the most important bottlenecks for the sustainable development of e-commerce, especially online retailing. In a typical e-commerce industry chain, the retailing business is already online while upstream activities such as manufacturing and the majority of wholesaling...
Recently, technological know-how has become a significant option to keep the results of research and development confidential, especially in terms of using an open/close strategy. However, since the mobility of human resources and the expansion of firms overseas have increased, the leakage of confidential, technological know-how is of particular concern. Despite its importance, details of its leakage...
To understand academic research, bibliometric analysis is tremendously important at any aspects. Research institutions such as university, institution and research center, are focal point of academic research. We have used simple and quantitative bibliometric analysis for the evaluation of research institutions. Nowadays some study show qualitative and network-based bibliometric analysis has been...
Interrelations between creativity, innovativeness and entrepreneurial skills of individuals have long been discussed in the literature. Due to the challenges regarding their measurement, most studies focused on the intentions rather than the outcomes. The idea generation that requires creativity is the first stage of social innovation. The young population's creative potentials in participating social...
With the rapid development of mass media, the role of media in science communication is growing in China. Television, as a traditional media of long history, is still the highest coverage and always ranks first in obtaining science and technology information, even Internet is developing very fast today. Television has always played the important role in science communication. The main content of this...
This study explores the acceptance of Infographies by employees as a tool for the improvement of Business Performance and Optimization. Infographies present visual information data or knowledge very quickly and clearly resulting in an improved cognition of employees by utilizing graphics to enhance their human visual systems. The current trend in employee societal development requires a new set of...
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