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This paper presents current results and ongoing work to develop effective educational courses on the Big Data (BD) and Data Intensive Science and Technologies (DIST) that is been done at the University of Amsterdam in cooperation with KPMG and by the Laureate Online Education (online partner of the University of Liverpool). The paper introduces the main Big Data concepts: multicomponent Big Data definition...
PBL (Problem Based Learning) has been used for teaching in number of courses for a long time. The objective of this learning method is to encourage the students to study from reality problem. The problem that often occurred during the PBL process was a failure of the project. In this paper, we tried to use an agile method that is a successful technique by using in a software development process in...
The change of technology and demanding competition has led the telecommunication business community to denote the vigour of human resource. Now, the organizations are probing the best skilled human resource to employ and retain for the sustainable development and competitive advantage for their organization. This encourages management to provide a good HR climate to develop employee's core competencies...
In the world of increasing international competition, firms must improve their export efficiency if they are to survive as exporters. One way of increasing export performance is to use more effective export marketing strategies. Therefore the study attempts to provide more insight into export performance and marketing strategies. This study identifies the significant predictors of export performance...
This paper mainly studies restaurant management, which has the properties of the yield management and alsocan be modeled as the M/M/c queue in system. Therefore, wecan use the price discrimination and the seat allocation tomaximize the expectation of the restaurant's profit, so as toget the optimal price and the seat allocation and according to the optimal value, the manager can make decisions. From...
This paper gives an empirical study on determinants of capital structure of Chinese-listed companies using firm-level panel data. The study employs a new database containing the accounting data from 89 non-financial companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange during the period time of 2003 to 2005. It employs six index variables as independent variables, and finds main affecting factors...
Software quality is imperative in the telecommunication industry. This has led to research towards the development of classification models, able to give a pre-release prediction of whether a software module is faulty or not. However, the data collected within this domain are typically imbalanced. This causes bias on the performance of any prediction model. In this study a hybrid framework for evaluating...
Due to the constantly changing nature of our society, the ability to make correct decisions is crucial for decision-makers. Understanding science-technology linkages and knowledge flows are of critical importance for decision-makers. A recent surge of research on patent has given us new opportunities and challenges; and there are many advances that have been made in the area of patent analysis. Therefore,...
Research institutes play an important role as part of the innovation landscape, which includes industrial, academic and governmental organisations. Although there is often much confusion over what constitutes an institute and there can even be a number of different terms associated with such organisational forms, including centres, networks, programmes and laboratories. Indeed institutes can enable...
Science and technology capability is one of the critical factors in developing the nation's competitiveness and driving the economic growth as well as the well-being of the people. The mobility of talent between academia and industry contributes significantly to the stock of human resources in science and technology, thus talent mobility at the national level plays an important role in the country's...
This paper looks at the newly materializing nanotechnology industry in Japan, and attempts to answer the question of what processes shape the formation and change of the organizational field network. Nanotechnology is a loosely-coupled field and includes organizations from a diverse set of industries and fields that evolved through different historical pathways. To understand the boundaries of the...
Managing Technology effectively and competitively in a fast-moving globalised world has become an increasingly challenging endeavour. Design, Information and Action (DIA) as defined by the authors have been found to be key aspects which significantly influence the degree of innovation, competitiveness and business leadership achievable. A technology management model was developed on the basis of these...
The paper examines the longitudinal impact of academic patenting on faculty's publication in order to figure out the relationship between industry engagement and public knowledge production. There are few comprehensive and longitudinal studies to investigate the issue. The research framework are elaborated not only patenting behavior in terms of involvement, productivity, and experience, but also...
The open innovation paradigm coined by Henry Chesbrough offers a new way of thinking and managing about innovation. But it's still unknown that how to manage open innovation efficiently. This paper analyzes key innovation resources owned by outside organizations. Based on the essential characteristics of open innovation, this paper establishes the modes of open innovation matched with firms' internal...
Scholars have drawn on network literature to highlight the importance of external resources available to the firm through its networks. This purpose of this study is to investigate whether the position of R&D partnership network affect the firm performance. Based on this perspective, we examine the effect of the government-sponsored R&D consortia in Taiwan. This kind of policy encourages firms...
As suggested by prior research, there are two types of innovation: Exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation. What is the relationship between the two approaches of innovation and firm performance? We argue that the effect of each approach of innovation on firm performance is contingent upon organizational structure, measured by centralization and formalization, and slack resources, consisted...
Innovation is one of the most important sources of competitive advantage. It helps a company to fuel the growth of new products and services, sustain incumbents, create new markets, transform industries, and promote the global competitiveness of nations. Because of its importance, companies need to manage innovation. It is very important for a company to be able to measure its innovativeness because...
In this paper, the contribution of empirical economic analysis to evidence based science, technology and innovation policy planning is discussed based on two case studies, (1) financial supports to firm's R&D by subsidies or tax measures and (2) innovation system reform policy such as university and industry collaboration promotion. It is important to make a good balance of "theoretical rigidness",...
This paper investigates to which extent the scope and degree of novelty of innovation by automotive component manufacturers in developing countries is associated with the scope of sources of knowledge used. The literature indicates a positive association between these parameters in the developed country context. However, it is not evident that in the developing country environment the same associations...
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