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The article describes the infrastructural potential as one of the main factors of Russian regions' competitive potential. Infrastructural factor of competitive potential is a very important element of increasing competitive advantages. The research suggests to estimate the regionals' infrastructural potential to enlarge completeness of estimating the factors of competitive potential.
Many universities have an interest in providing global humanitarian experiences to students but often do not have the finances or time available to accommodate such experiences. By collaborating with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), universities can provide undergraduate students majoring in technical and medical fields these experiences. These opportunities can offer a significant understanding...
Open Source Software (OSS) communities depend on continu-ally recruiting new contributors. Some communities promote initiatives such as Summers of Code to foster contribution, but little is known about how successful these initiatives are. As a case study, we chose Google Summer of Code (GSoC), which is a three-month internship promoting software development by students in several OSS projects. We...
Transforming cities into Smart Sustainable cities (SSCs) is rapidly getting global attention as a desired goal for future urban development. Cities are dynamic living organisms that are continuously changing and evolving over time aiming to enhance their economic, social, environmental, and physical structures. At the heart of these structures there are the stakeholders that are treated as end users...
The present need for software organizations to seamlessly carryout software development results to significant high cost of electricity usage and emission of CO2 which contributes to climate changes. Therefore there is need for software practitioners to adopt sustainable practices in software development process. Sustainable practices can be adopted when software practitioners utilizes software which...
Since its founding in 2002, Engineers Without Borders-USA has grown to have a chapter at almost every university across the nation. Alongside, academic programs in humanitarian engineering and social entrepreneurship are popping up globally. Administrators often think about such programs as vehicles for students to develop their soft skills and meet ABET requirements. There is ample evidence that...
Over the past decade, promotion of innovative models for distributed renewable energy supply in developing countries has grown considerably. International plans to meet goals of universal energy access and increased use of renewables depend on the success of these projects. This paper considers the community energy model demonstrated in the Malawi Renewable Energy Acceleration Programme (MREAP). Initial...
Green Information Technology (GIT) is emerging as an increasingly important issue as organizations come under pressure to address environmental sustainability concerns. Despite increased attention from business, government and more recently, Information Systems (IS) researchers, a measure to determine the capability of organizations to Green their IT remains elusive. The ultimate aim is to utilize...
Collectively, the Information Technology sector forms one of the topmost recruiting industries as of 2015. The industry continues to grow rapidly by expanding its footprint into unexplored verticals and newer technologies. It is imperative that the IT workforce is one that is competent, versatile and adaptive. Numerous studies have determined that there is a direct correlation between the success...
In software development team performances depend on how individual are performing therein. Software development is an economic activity which derives the profit and enlarges profitability of the software development if performance is optimized. Economic performance depends on performance of technical product developed or service and its performance. Revenue is generated only from the high performance...
Information dissemination by means of computer networks uses information systems to store, retrieve and transmit knowledge, which are considered very important tools for society nowadays. The concepts of Information Science, their application to the solution of real situations regarding life cycle inventory and the procedures used in Information Technology provide a new direction to Information Science...
Modeling & Simulation (M&S) studies have been widely used in industry to gain insights into existing or proposed systems of interest. The majority of these studies focus on productivity-related measures to evaluate system' performance. However, this predominant focus on productivity may need to change since sustainability has become an increasingly important consideration in managerial discourse...
The relationship between the enterprise technological innovation and institutional innovation has been studied by numerous scholars, but currently, the issue of ‘whether the technology innovation determines the institutional innovation thereby decide the economic growth, or the institutional innovation determines the technological innovation so as to decide the economic growth’ is still not solved...
The paper deals with the tension between accountability and sustainability in relation to institutional domains and it discusses the conditions under which these two principles can be reconciled effectively and legitimately, enabling responsible innovation. The Rotterdam Port Authority serves as a case, with special attention to its latest construction project: Maasvlakte 2. This port extension project,...
The entropy has been widely used to measure the confused degree of the organization, which provides the chain between the analysis and the application for the enterprise's strategy management. According to the nature of the entropy and the entropy theory, we give the business system's entropy model. Then we analyze family enterprise's political characters and entropy flow. Furthermore, the entropy...
This study aims to identify, describe and analyze underlying factors that are perceived to be important to the adoption and implementation of Green IT. The research is based on open and exploratory method. Case study is the main approach in this study and a combination of quantitative and qualitative research method has been implemented for data collection and analysis of the research study. One online...
Industry cluster is a quite typical economic form. It can drive industrial upgrading, improve the regional competitiveness. So it becomes an urgent problem to solve how to play and keep competitive advantage and realize orderly development. The article sees the industrial cluster as a self-organizing system and analyses industrial cluster's evolution by using the theory of self organization, then...
Technology innovation is the important factor about private enterprise's survival and development. To the private enterprise, the necessity of transformation firstly comes from its own developing requirements. Extensive developing mode which once played leading role in private enterprise hasn't been meet the requirements of economic development. On the other hand, this necessity also comes from market...
In the 21st century, knowledge innovation is becoming the main purpose of sustainable development of enterprise, as far as employee which is the main body of knowledge innovation is concerned, its innovative efficacy is closely related to organizational culture, institutional structure, self-demand and the current situation of knowledge. This report takes this as a view point to make an ESEK motivational...
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