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How do firms leverage existing innovation for the next round of innovation? We develop a novel concept of generative capability in product innovation to address this question. As a high-level organizational routine, generative capability applies the mechanisms of iteration and rapid knowledge integration to guide ordinary innovation activities. Based on panel data from 2001 to 2009 of 56,333 firm-year...
Organizations ranging from the Internet, to economies, to large global corporations, to rapidly changing technological ecosystems can be thought of as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS). When viewed from the bottom-up CAS is often characterized by distributed control, connectivity, co-evolution, emergence, and unpredictability. When viewed from the top-down characteristics such as an implicit order, qualified...
This study was conducted to identify the relationship among some intrapersonal factors such as professional competency, interdisplinary ability, social skills capability, and team cohesion. The validated questionnaire was delivered to 296 students in the design programs of universities as research samples. Consequently, the SPSS 18.0 and AMOS statistic software were used to analyze the collected data...
With the advance of information technology, video on the web (such as, Youtube) had been a common and convenient channel for learning by students. But the characteristics of transient information in videos are easy to impose a high cognitive load to students, especially for elementary school students. Because video is not a single text or a single image, which has rich colors and complex scenarios...
The quotations from Peter Drucker and Henry Mintzberg define the management function: Drucker focuses on people, Mintzberg on on how managers provide opportunities. As managers, we take on great responsibilities as we try to meet organizational requirements as well as providing challenging work opportunities. This issue of EMR begins the Technology Managers Notebook followed by Reflections from the...
Moving item recommendation is now and again a champ among the most key and basic procedures in PC perspective programs. In this paper, a novel organization model is suggested to get rid of illustrating closer see things from files that may contain different sorts of disturbing impact, for instance, light changes, camera parameter varieties, bustles and component back-grounds, etc. For each appearance,...
This paper reviews the potential of mobile health applications to tackle the challenges of healthcare. Mauritius has the potential to emerge as a leading mobile application development platform. A user-driven innovative mobile health application developed in Mauritius, Doctor Assistant, will be discussed. Doctor Assistant has been published in the WHO Compendium of Innovative Health Technologies for...
Creativity is a critical factor in the today's increasingly competitive business environment. In order to increase and accelerate the production of innovation, firms attempt to promote creativity and produce ideas by organizing creative workshops. The creative process, especially during creative workshop, is a knowledge creation and manipulation process. Despite creative production is unpredictable,...
InnoEscuela is more than a learning experience, a programmed methodology to implement courses related to Technology and Computing which follows an innovative way of teaching. The methodology focuses on Project-based learning and team work. Students organize themselves in teams which are called innovative enterprises and they have to decide to create a solution to a social disadvantage, technical problem,...
Post Graduate course viz. Management course inculcates the attributes that are to be assessed for every student. These attributes include ability to investigate, Ability to network and resourceful, independent and critical thinkers, subject specialist, confident, excellent communication skills, collaborator, adaptable etc. are the area of concern. The presence of necessary management attributes guarantees...
Roadmapping has evolved over the last years and it is currently an established managerial approach. It has demonstrated potential to support the development of strategies and plans concerning product and technology innovations for businesses and industrial sectors. Plenty of knowledge with regard to the best practices for implementing the roadmapping approach has been reported, however they are mainly...
This Modernization of technology requires training of personnel with new competencies and establishment of centers for innovation in education, research, and technologies within the framework of higher education system. According to that tendency Project activity direction was created in the system of Elite Engineering Education in Tomsk Polytechnic University. The key features of the organization...
The Framework Programmes (FPs) for Research and Technological Development (R&TD) are funding programmes created by the European Union/European Commission to support and foster research in the European Research Area (ERA). International R&TD projects play an increasing part in many organizations' R&TD investments. Technology developers of all organizations (industrial companies, small and...
Innovation is the lifeblood for enterprise's survival and development. The sustainable developments of industrial clusters rely on the accumulation of continuous innovation. The relationship between the cluster nodes in the network will not only determine the structure of a cluster network organization, but also provide a high-speed overflow channel for networking innovation of cluster. The article...
At the workshop, we see the results of some of the foremost researchers for technology that is aimed not at replacing workers, but augmenting knowledge workers, striving to avoid the urge to automate, but instead to facilitate. The focus is more on goals that behave like objectives, not defining the work, but instead inspiring the worker to figure out the best course given that particular unique set...
Innovation is the decisive force in the sustainable development and the intrinsic motivation for industrial clusters to gain competitive advantages. Firstly, the article constructs a unified platform to research cluster Innovation through the integration method of the object “Network” on the ontological and methodological sense. Network is both the target of innovative research, but also the method...
The traceability of contributions in the joint creation between customers and organizations (co-creation), is recognize as a fundamental task to support activities in obtaining products/services with high potential for innovation. The goal of traceability is to improve the quality of products and services. The information that provides the traceability can be used to support the analysis of the implications...
Mankind is facing numerous global, ecological and economic challenges that demand new, holistic approaches, and more sustainable innovations. This study identifies a multifaceted here-and-now approach of presence. Presence can be regarded as promising and little researched approach in finding fresh solutions and ideas of sustainable approaches. The qualitative data was collected through workshops,...
Competency development of employees in large organizations has become very important in current times of extremely volatile business environment. In order to consistently provide its customers and clients the best business solutions, employees of an organization have to be the best in their competencies. A competent team of employees is the foundation of any successful organization. A company will...
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