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This article considers the results of a survey of the Internet space in order to identify interest and ideas about innovative activities and readiness for it. Understanding of the essence of innovation activity by respondents, its effectiveness, participation in innovation competitions, awareness of leading innovative programs, participation in the registration of intellectual property and other aspects...
The extensive diffusion of social media innovation has dramatically transformed traditional media content creation and dissemination with the effect of creating more user awareness. Citizens are increasingly becoming integral part of media content creation and dissemination and thus empowering citizens in the exercise of their informational self-determination. Ironically, in spite of the progress...
Online Practice Communities promote learning through mutual commitment and continuous communication among people facing a common goal. The research presented in this communication is based on an Educational Innovation Project at a college level where an Online Practice Community was created for the development of a subject in an undergraduate program. The research analyzes two variables that influence...
Different from the closed teaching concept in the past, the open teaching concept is a teaching thought that can improve the teaching quality and students' comprehensive capacity, and enhance students' innovative thinking as well. The open teaching classroom is exactly the specific reflection of this concept and the basic guarantee of carrying out the open teaching. The open teaching classroom includes...
Crowdfunding has thus far been run by stand-alone crowdfunding platforms, many of them formed by for-profit companies. However, a number of universities have begun to start their own platforms. These "corporate crowdfunding" platforms are likely to have more resources at their disposal than stand-alone platforms but less flexibility as the overarching organization exerts control and decision-making...
The Internet of Things (IoT) creates a myriad of new business opportunities that focus on collecting, transmitting, and analyzing product data. IoT collaborations bring together diverse firms with separate skill-sets that both produce and utilize digitized data to co-create value. While previous research has explored the technical implications of IoT in great detail, it has largely ignored the business...
Crowdfunding has been gaining in popularity as means for creators and entrepreneurs to get funding and launch their ideas and projects and is considered as an alternative financing model for start-up funding by many, where the market leading platform Kickstarter received about USD$480 million in 2013 alone. However, this increasing popularity has not yet gained foot in many developing countries that...
The aims of this paper are to: 1) outline and discuss the framework for linking theater e-marketing with customer equity; 2) assess the impact of digital theater services on the metrics connected with Customer Lifetime Value. The results of empirical research suggest that art-oriented young Internet-users, who do not attend traditional theaters, can be attracted to digital theater services. Digital...
This paper investigates the use of various user-driven methods in the development of public services. As an example, the paper presents a case where citizens and employees were brought together to identify development needs for remote-enabled public services. User-driven methods provided by a local Living Lab were used to solve the encountered challenges. The outcome of this study indicates that use...
This study defines and explores work experience-based constructs influencing IT manager support of remote service innovation. Data from surveys of 808 IT managers in China support the hypothesized model and demonstrate that partnering experience factors impact support attitudes, particularly with regard to the more emergent technology: mobile. Insight from this study can help form better policies...
Studies have shown that many Muslim users question religious websites. This is due to unrestricted cyberspace where anybody can publish any sort of information. This paper investigates the text-based dimensions that may improve reliability of Islamic websites. It is found that reliability of Islamic websites involves the same principles of reliability established in other types of website. However,...
Objective: the objectives of this article are: (a) to provide an analysis of the key factors of an efficient web strategy with regard to the issue of patient empowerment, (b) to build an index for measuring the degree of empowerment of healthcare providers' web sites, (c) to measure the degree of "patient web empowerment" within the Italian National Health Service (INHS). Methods: a Patient...
Security-related policies can help organizations safeguard against breaches and other threats and plan for how to respond to events. However, adoption of security, privacy and acceptable use policies, audit processes and disaster recovery, and business continuance planning may lag behind an organization's efforts to leverage the benefits of web-based technologies. This paper presents findings from...
There has been an extensive theoretical literature during the last 20 years supporting that information and communication technologies (ICT) have a huge potential to drive significant innovations in firms' processes, products and services, which can result in big performance improvements. However, limited empirical investigation of this innovation potential of ICT has been conducted. This paper presents...
This research gathered web network top-level domain (tld) interlink age among Muslim Middle East and North African Nations (MMENANs) in December 2010 and in April 2011, constituting before and after measures with respect to the 2011 Muslim Middle-East (MMENA) uprisings between these time points. This constitutes a naturalistic field experiment, with the uprisings occurring before April serving as...
Resource sharing is one of construction aims of high-tech virtual industrial cluster (HTVIC) and furthermore is the key factor to keep cluster competitive force. This paper analyzes current situation and problems in resource sharing in HTVIC, and indicates the necessity of constructing a resource sharing platform in HTVIC. Combined with these studies, this paper puts forward a concept of resource...
This paper draws upon the innovation assimilation theory and the conceptual lens of business processes to explain the importance of the facilitators in achieving higher levels of e-business assimilation within an organization. Survey data are utilized to test the relationships among these factors and the extent of organizational assimilation of e-business in China. The results assist managers to implement...
After twenty-year development, national high-tech zones in China step into "the second entrepreneurship" which emphasizes on enhancing the capacity of independent innovation. In order to promote the sustainable development of high-tech zone, this paper studies the case of Hangzhou high-tech zone and analyzes the problems and difficulties in science popularization after the actual investigation,...
Introducing electronic collaboration (e-collaboration) is not a matter of introducing new software, but it is a matter of introducing new, and if applied correctly, more efficient working processes and methods (i.e., e-collaboration capability). As a first step before introducing a collaboration technology, managers should comprehensively examine their organization's underlying capability. Accordingly,...
Partial adoption means that a perfect substitute fails to completely replace the older technologies in one's personal use even though it is judged the superior alternative. The assumption is that consumers choose to only use the superior alternative, yet, we often observe coexistence of old and new technologies. The contribution of this paper is to offer insights to the phenomenon of partial adoption:...
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