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The paper develops an integrated technology-push and market-pull framework, a value chain model for crossing the valley of death (VOD—the gap between laboratory and market) for emerging technologies based on primary and secondary data analyses, and a survey conducted on European research and development projects. The study uses a case of micro- and nano-manufacturing technology (MNT), and confirms...
The shortage of young engineers presents a structural problem that deflates growth and innovation and causes high value losses for the economy. To achieve sustainable success in securing new recruits, prospective students from working life are highly relevant for the universities, because they act at the crossroads of Engineering and Business. Although the offer of studying programs alongside work...
In nascent areas, such as Smart Manufacturing, new collaborative research and development programs (R&D) are frequently formed with the goal to ignite the innovation lifecycle. Yet, clearly formulating common goals and enabling shared understanding of key concepts, which are critical to achieving these goals, often involve long, drawn-out processes. These processes typically involve road-mapping...
In recognition of an existing Cartesian perspective in practice and research of product and service as two distinct entities in product-centric MNEs, an integral perspective of the product-service innovation processes is introduced in the form of the Götheborg IV (G4) model. Based on the assumption that the core activity of any enterprise is exchange, where the value of production is realized in its...
Requirements Engineering has recently been greatly influenced by the way how firms use Open Source Software (OSS) and Software Ecosystems (SECOs) as a part of their product development and business models. This is further emphasized by the paradigm of Open Innovation, which highlights how firms should strive to use both internal and external resources to advance their internal innovation and technology...
The economic development of a country is conceived from several perspectives, one of them is the technology and, within it, the Internet that is a tool that promotes the business innovation, the social inclusion through services related to education, health, etc. In this context, this document, shows an analysis of the incidence of the Internet in the economic development countries members of the...
The economic development of a country is conceived from several perspectives, one of them is the technology and, within it, the Internet that is a tool that promotes the business innovation, the social inclusion through services related to education, health, etc. In this context, this document, shows an analysis of the incidence of the Internet in the economic development countries members of the...
This paper presents the outcome of a preliminary investigation into the use of mobile apps as a dynamic capability tool by start-up entrepreneurs. 19 business start-ups in Lagos Nigeria were involved in this study, with average enterprise age of 11.5 months in service industry. After strategic use of customized mobile app for 12 weeks, it was observed that average profit, customer-base and staffing...
In traditional product companies, creating value meant identifying enduring customer needs and manufacturing well-engineered solutions. Two hundred and fifty years after the start of the Industrial Revolution, this pattern of activity plays out every day, especially in a connected world where products are no longer one-and-done. Making money is not anymore limited to physical product sales and other...
While it is often assumed that more creativity in the workplace contributes to raising a firm's competitiveness, the extent to and the conditions under which this is actually so remain largely untested. In this paper, we propose a draft framework for creativity evaluation. This will be used in the context of three industrial pilots of the TELL ME integrated project, to assess the impact and benefits...
One of the key issues in the current information society is the easy and open availability of required resources. The concept of “openness” covers several resource categories, such as data, software sources, services, innovation and education. Open Data is seen as a promising source of new business. The concept of open innovation is based on the idea of distributing “useless” innovations for beneficial...
With Web 2.0 increased user participation in diverse e-communities results in prevalence of information, including emotional information. We examined the influence of negative emotion in an online brand community, MyStarbuckIdea.com developed to collect diverse customer ideas for firm's innovation, with the purpose to investigate how such emotion affects customer innovation activities in the community...
This minitrack's purpose is to draw researchers' attention to Innovation, Design, and Development of ICT Enabled Services for both Consumers and Enterprises. It provides a discussion forum for researchers interested in fostering a service-based approach to these areas as well as an opportunity to present and debate both design and theory-based solutions to the problems facing industry in the deployment...
Entrepreneurial opportunities are a crucial starting point of the entrepreneurial process. However, reliable and replicable methods for systematically searching, framing, developing and assessing opportunities are still undeveloped. This article describes an action-research case study based on an experimental workshop performed in Beijing, China, in the context of an entrepreneurial platform called...
Recent studies emphasize the needs of a wider set of skills engineers require than ever thought. In this paper, authors report on a systematic literature review on this issue. Findings of the review are spanned over two main folds: 1- A conceptual ontological framework of engineering skills in the context of generic- and employability- skills of KBS and KBEs citizens and workforce, and 2- A global...
Service imagery refers to a meaning that can be proposed to customers as a set of values such as the emotional, psychological, socio-cultural or environmental dimensional consumption, going beyond the utilitarian perspective. The notion of service imagery is novel for it being not only for communication but also the elements, resources, and value outcomes in a service value network design. The targets...
The purpose of this paper is to propose a collaborative business model of measuring business excellence (MBE) by applying principles of Network Management and Systems Thinking. The proposed model is defined by the interaction of system variables giving the opportunity of a reliable and fair score as well as objective decision-making with regard to the areas that are susceptible of continuous improvement...
This paper is a follow-up of a previous paper, dedicated to the description of a holistic view of the user experience (UX) model, presenting the refined user experience framework and model within the Experiential Living Labs for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The holistic model of UX was instantiated for six different use case domains appertaining to the Internet of Things (IoT) based services,...
In this paper we follow a theory-based approach to study the assimilation of compliance software in highly regulated multinational enterprises. These relatively new software products support the automation of controls which are associated with mandatory compliance requirements. We use institutional and success factor theories to explain the assimilation of compliance software. A framework for analyzing...
This study explores types of boundary objects, their relationships, and their effect on project innovativeness in the context of systems analysis. Four types of boundary objects are identified and their content discussed. Based on data collected from 258 student analysts, the results indicate that out of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and metaphoric boundary objects, only pragmatic boundary objects...
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