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This paper presents the findings of a PhD research that aims to evaluate the processes of electronic participation (e-Participation) and electronic democracy (e-Democracy) introduction in Switzerland. The choice of the Swiss case study can be explained by a seeming paradox between, on the one hand, highly developed system of direct democracy, which determines the character of the Swiss policy-making...
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has come to play a critical role in the global software industry. Organizations are widely adopting FOSS and interacting with open source communities, and hence organizations have a considerable interest in seeing these communities flourishing. Little research has focused on the tools used to develop that software. Given the absence of formal mandate that would...
The field of signal processing is replete with exemplary problems where the measurements amount to time-delayed and amplitude scaled echoes of some template function or a pulse. When the inter-pulse spacing is favorable, something as primitive as a matched filter serves the purpose of identifying time-delays and amplitudes. When the inter-pulse spacing poses an algorithmic challenge, high-resolution...
Human resource information systems (HRIS) are adopted and used in various organizations all over the world. Following on this trend, universities including those in South Africa have also adopted and are using such systems for their human resource (HR) purposes. However there is still a lack of understanding on how organizations such as universities adopt and use HRIS. This paper provides a conceptual...
At University level, particularly in Engineering fields, the academe shows significant enthusiasm for the development of various competencies concerning entrepreneurship and innovation, focusing on the promotion of opportunities and the strengthening of the existing connection between the University and the Software Industry. One of the main challenges in Engineering is finding a proper answer to...
This paper focuses on the problem of distributed sequence prediction in a network of sparsely interconnected agents, where agents collaborate to achieve provably reasonable predictive performance. An expert assisted online learning algorithm in a distributed setup of the consensus+innovations form is proposed, in which the agents update their weights for the experts' predictions by simultaneously...
The trend towards virtual reality for mass market has existed already in the past decades, but has fallen into oblivion. Nevertheless, 2016 marks the year a number of Virtual Reality consumer headsets are being launched, as past technological limitations seem to be resolved. The author places these developments into the context of trend diagnosis methods in order to sketch out a comprehensive, research-based...
User-driven Customization (UDC) is a promising concept to react on current developments in the markets. However, until now no successful applications of UDC for technical products exist. Therefore, this paper develops and implements a continuous toolchain for UDC from the customization toolkit via an OI-platform to the production back-end. The resulting prototype achieves the proof of concept for...
To maintain competitive advantage, today organizations need to be able to innovate - not just occasionally, but consistently. Mastering the process of innovation requires identifying the factors that support or hamper the achievement of innovations. The success of such process usually depends on the quality of the best opportunity identified, which is not enough. So, a systematic research and delivery...
Two educators collaborated to design and test a one-week summer course for middle school girls on sound, engineering, and invention as an exemplar integrated STEM program that draws upon rich historical and social contexts with the goal of attracting and retaining students in STEM. An engineering design project and an invention project formed the core of the course. Music and related technologies...
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...
This panel discussion examines the experiences, change approaches, and initial findings of the 2015 cohort of Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant recipients. Change in higher education is increasingly achieved through grassroots action. The possibility to create systemic change can hinge on initial successes and areas ripe for flexibility. Through this conversational exploration of experiences,...
At many universities across the United States, the students' ideas resulting from course-associated work may not be their own, especially if they make "significant use" of university equipment or resources. But what does "significant use" mean for an undergraduate who is required to complete a unique design, in a team, for a grade? Is the design patentable? Licensable? Protected?...
In this participatory culture, technology innovation is increasingly driven by fan-based participation, catalyzed by the rapid growth of social media platforms and networked communication. This paper applies a user localization perspective to look at cases of fan participation from South Korea and China on social media platforms. Regarding those emerging fan practices as an alternative model for innovation,...
A survey we conducted a few years ago concluded that higher education teachers should have the following competences: interpersonal, methodological, communicative, planning and management, teamwork and innovation. The authors of this work belong to the Institute in charge of the lecturer-training program at our university, which is basically a technical one. In order to improve our training program,...
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...
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 this study, the hypothesis on the decision making on the residential choice with slope disaster risk was tested. First, two types of decisions, moving-in and moving-out decisions, were defined. Then, the hypothesis that people in moving-in decision are more risk averse than in moving-out decision was set. In order to test the hypothesis, the web survey was conducted and the difference of the equivalent...
Innovation is widely recognized as one main contributor to a firm's competitiveness. To conduct innovation, an organization must utilize its tangible and intangibles resources. The current study is aimed at examining the effect of intangible resources, namely human, organizational and relational resources on innovation in the context of service firms (i.e., tutoring agencies) in Indonesia. In addition,...
Entrepreneur has a significant role in SMEs. Entrepreneur capabilities in managing SMEs become key success factor of business sustainability. There are three roles that entrepreneurs must competently in order to be successful, namely entrepreneurial, managerial and technical-functional. Different competencies required to perform these roles, related to the specific knowledge of the industry, managerial...
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