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In this article as an object of study is considered the transport system and mechanism of self-organization. The subject of research is social and economic power in the mechanism of self-organization of the transport system. The essence of our suggested scientific hypothesis is that transport system of a different level has to be regarded as a whole system. So it needs complex measurement instrument...
The dominant mode for teaching engineers about design thinking is project-based learning. We give students things to design — individually or in teams, and then evaluate the products they produce. But another way to learn about engineering design is to study real-world examples. Case studies provide one way to do so. Cases have been used in schools of business for many years; the case study method...
The purpose of this industrial brief is to introduce an information system named Inventorum, which implements the idea of open innovation. Its aim is to increase cooperation between business and academia and in this way boost economic competitiveness. The system recommends innovations, projects, experts, partners, and conferences to the users based on their profiles. Information is served in three...
In the present day, developed economies that function on the basis of knowledge indicate better economic performance. Many studies have shown that one prerequisite for economic growth is the availability of information and new findings – when the conditions of creativity and high technology are also present (not only for companies but also for regions and entire economies). Economic players face ever...
The aim of this study is to propose an information system that should help boost cooperation between business and academia and their innovativeness. Its novelty relies on introducing such a system architecture and business processes that allow implementing the paradigm of open innovation easily. More specifically, the proposed system: (i) automatically acquires data from the Internet and extracts...
Globalizing changes in society are able to influence changes in the economies of individual countries. Individual economic entities from various sectors attempt to achieve high economic performance and development. They do this within the conditions that are possible at that time; if there are favorable conditions for their development, this will result in creating innovative production and its subsequent...
Rapid transformation of technologies and markets challenge organizations to build structures and norms that promote learning and innovation. Up until now, however, knowledge management has not been a common subject for investigation of university-industry collaboration in innovation projects. The few known studies have concentrated on the numbers of patents, spillovers and publications, or institutional...
This paper summarises Ph.D. research study in strategy, project and programme management at SKEMA Business School of France. The research has been construed as an in-depth case study of a fast-growing hotel chain company in Southern China with 36 hotels to scientifically find the positive impact of Confucian cultural values introduced by the company on the hotel chain management and the proactive...
South African organisations that offer engineering services to the local and foreign market contribute significantly towards South Africa's overall Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The importance of engineering services in South Africa motivates the need to gain new insight into a sub-group of service marketing specific to the Sub-Saharan Africa cement market. The primary objective of this research is...
PASMO is a regional project aiming to bridge the gap between research and practice in the area of urban mobility support. It covers key access roads to the seaside villages of the Aveiro/Ilhavo region, in the center of Portugal, providing vehicular communications, regular WiFi access, and a myriad of useful mobility services (parking, bikes, jams, weather) under the umbrella of a smart region infrastructure...
In the context of competitive economy innovation is a key strategic imperative for any organization. Successful technological, marketing, and organizational innovations result in a sustainable competitive advantage and lead to better financial results. As it stands, the organizational innovation is considered to be a vehicle for technological and market development. It is, in turns, driven by the...
The peculiarities of formation of innovative-investment strategy in the economy of the troubled region were investigated. The main ways of GDP growth were defined. The role of development institutions as an important instrument for the implementation of innovative investment strategies in the region's economy was shown. We concluded that Federal development institutions as a tool for the development...
The strength of the German economy is the backbone of the technology-driven small- and midsize enterprises (SMEs). SME focus on small but very advanced niches and can be world-market leaders in their domain. To provide solutions to customers, they form SME clusters. A very important driver for successful technology regions are industry-university-cooperations [1] with a focus on applied sciences [2]...
The work is devoted to solving the urgent problem of developing scientific grounds of modernization and innovation industrial development of the North and the Arctic of the Russian Federation under the conditions of resource restrictions, first of all investment and financial ones. The goal of the research is to elaborate theoretical and methodological grounds for potentialities of modernization and...
Entrepreneurship has been linked with improved economic stability and the economic turnaround of countries. Creating and enabling environments that spur, cultivate and sustain entrepreneurs is of paramount importance. The purpose of this paper is to relate how entrepreneurial firms utilise external actors to create value in their companies in an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Of particular importance...
In the framework of the federal and regional socioeconomic development strategies, as well as the interstate regional initiatives, a pilot project for creating an ecological and safe environment for living is implemented in Saint-Petersburg; the project embraces the introduction of energy saving and energy efficient technologies in all economic sectors. In the light of the foregoing, in 2014, an international...
The analysis of transport indicators of the region is carried out. The structure of the model is given. An algorithm of iterative parameters is described. General conclusions and suggestions are made. They make it possible to outline the prospects of the innovative growth by the relevant directions (power and transport complexes, social sphere, tourism and recreation, agriculture). In order to forecast...
This paper presents Job to Major (J2M), an opensource tool design to link job requirements with University of Southampton's major information. J2M currently provides two functions: suggesting the most suitable majors to potential students of the university based on the job requirements, find jobs that are closely link to what students acquire from their major. The development of J2M is according to...
This article investigates how omni-channel services operations are building technology-based business networks. It uses a case study research, which includes multiple sources of data collection for triangulation purposes, to study a real-life phenomenon. The results suggest that omni-channel companies are changing their landscape to business networks, looking for competitive advantages over their...
Due to the collapse of the bubble economy, many Japanese ICT companies are faced with a tough situation. Each company has implemented various management reforms to restore competitive advantage. However, such attempts were unsuccessful. Although they have large shares in the domestic market, despite struggle against China and Korean companies they have smaller share compared to these two countries...
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