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Technology assessment is a systematic examination of the effects on or of new developments such as technologies, processes, policies, organizations, and so on. In this paper, we present a systematic method for technology assessments a part of the suite of tools for Forecasting Innovation Pathways (FIP). We explore means to combine tech mining tools with human intelligence in several idea exchange...
Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialization (RIS3) methodology has been tested in Europe for the development of agendas for territorial economic transformation. In 2014 RIS3 was adapted in Mexico to define innovation agendas for each of the 32 states of the country. This process was promoted by the National Council for Science and Technology and the authors of this paper participated...
Using a set of elite publications as representatives to an entity's research output is a common practice in bibliometrics. There are however few studies using such concept of elites for patenting performance evaluation. This paper gathered a number of elite-based bibliometric approaches and organized them into a simple classification scheme so as to observe the various approaches in a systematic manner...
Due to globalization as well as increasing competition and cost pressure business strategies extensively focus on individual products tailored to customer's needs. In order to meet this challenge, numerous companies structure their products and technologic solutions according to the design principles of modular product platforms. Therefore, the modular product platform approach of the automotive industry...
Co-creation model becomes the increasing crucial and innovative source of competitive advantage for the firms discussed in recent researches. Most literatures focused on co-creation between firms and customers. Nevertheless, multi-stakeholders play more influences on the business activities, social enterprises show good examples themselves for social innovation to co-create with stakeholders providing...
Patent indicators are increasingly used to assess competitive advantage or technology development trends for innovation studies. There are a number of patent indicators proposed in the literature to access such technology-based innovativeness. However, most of the studies arbitrarily select patent indicators for their investigations without optimizing the choice of indicators. Only a limited researchers...
This paper aims to illustrate the implementation of lean six sigma principles in a water management system. It draws on process information and primary data from real water shortage situations which affect the lives of rural people. Lean Six Sigma are business management strategies commonly used in production industries to improve process efficiency and quality. During the past decade, these process...
This paper employs the negative binomial regression model (RENBM) to test the relationship between policy factors and the innovation performance of new energy firms. We considered 408 policies implemented by the central government of China which are most relevant to new energy industry innovation during the period of 2007–2014.We found out that only the stringency of productive innovation policy has...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to change society, although it is a general-purpose technology and its concrete application, value, and feasibility are still obscure. In this study, we explored plausible social issues to which IoT solutions can be applied. First, we extracted promising research areas of IoT by measuring text correlations between citation networks of papers and those of patents...
Due to the aging population in Hong Kong, the need for home care service is growing rapidly and requires nursing staff to frequently visit the homes of the elderly for service. For years, a shortage of qualified nursing staff and the tight service schedule has brought increasing pressure to the existing home care service, sometimes leading to high complaint rates by the elderly and their family members...
This research begins to help us understand the factors that help build the trust between the vendor and client and this is one of the keys to maintaining a long-term relationship between the parties. Both contractual and relationship factors affect the ability of vendors and clients to work together over time. A recent study had demonstrated that relational factors such as trust and information exchange...
To catch up with leaders, whether latecomers should follow an “imitation to innovation” path or an “innovating to leapfrog” path is still not quite clear. To shine some light on this issue, we focus on the case of BYD, a latecomer growing from nobody to the pioneer of Chinese electric automotive industry and the champion in world electric vehicle sales in a dozen years. We find that BYD catches up...
With a focus on Japan, this paper empirically examines the stage in which drug development is abandoned. The time-consuming approval process for new drugs involves many stages and has low certainty. Based on pipeline data, we examine the stage in which drug development is completely abandoned or is “dead.” Using pipeline data on Japanese pharmaceutical companies, we investigate whether the abandonment...
Electric assist bicycle (e-bike) technology was developed by various companies around the world. Although Swiss company Dolphin E-bikes has started the development of this technology first in the world, Japanese company Yamaha motor was first launched electric-assist bicycle product in the world. In Japan, the targets of this product are women and elder people who have weak physical strength. However,...
The electronics world is undergoing a transformation in the underlying technologies used to create new products for the world's consumers. The movement to reconfigurable electronics using microcontrollers is sweeping the electronics world in the rush to create smaller, faster, and more flexible consumer and industrial devices. Microcontrollers are becoming one of the most exciting devices in history...
In the context of global competition, companies are searching for strategies to stand out and gain competitive advantage. One of these strategies is the outsourcing of activities. Researches over the years have addressed the process of production outsourcing, but the outsourcing of New Product Development (NPD) activities is a relatively new phenomenon. This paper aims at analyzing this phenomenon...
Innovation is essential in economic conditions of uncertainty and crisis to guarantee the firm's long term survival. Scholars have done plenty of research in innovation and have found a lot of factors that affect innovation, but ignoring the impact of organizational forgetting on innovation. Accordingly, this research seeks to contribute to the scarce empirical evidence by analyzing the influence...
Global warming, outside pressures to the application of sustainable practices and rising energy prices are factors increasingly present in today's society. In addition, the cost of energy becomes increasingly significant, being an important vector to be considered in business competitiveness. Thus, this work includes the energy efficiency variables within the context of manufacturing systems analysis...
Shorter product life cycles require shorter innovation cycles which forces companies to launch new innovative products on the market at increasingly shorter intervals to stay competitive. A promising approach to face this challenge is described as the new paradigm of Open Innovation (OI) where knowledge of external partners (e.g. suppliers, product users or universities) is used to accelerate the...
Inventions have long been recognized as key driver for wealth creation of nations. As intellectual property (IP) rights are costly and difficult to acquire and enforce, it is often argued that SMEs are disadvantaged in their ability to utilize IP rights. Against the background of the patent upsurge, we first conduct a literature review of the role of patenting and alternative instruments to protect...
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