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The emerging markets are experiencing high growths, have massive and still expanding market sizes, and huge labor forces, but they also face significant constraints such as resource constraints, immature infrastructures, and low purchasing power. The internal gap between huge unsatisfied demands for low-cost products from the bottom of the pyramid and the weak economic foundation in emerging markets...
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...
This paper presents both a methodology and a startup ecosystem platform for development of new business models centered on the concept of PSS (Product-Service System). The platform model is set to address specific community challenges and features at its core the concepts of emergent behavior and self-organization. While in a traditional approach the emphasis is put almost exclusively on financial...
The transformations fostered by the fast technological development, together with the social demand for the integration of new technologies in educational contexts, cause the study of the factors that promote the actual use of a given technology to be an essential element for the guidance of the innovation process. This research work presents the results of a descriptive study on the attitude of future...
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...
Recently, the topic of how to educate “green engineers” has been discussed much in relation to the growing issues of sustainability. This paper regards creativity as a path to developing sustainability, and it particularly considers creativity as a scientific literacy that indicates a collection of awareness, ability, and skills about sustainability. Following this point, in software engineering education,...
This study aims to identify key factors that organizations should consider when deciding whether to adopt cloud computing, and sets out a framework for how these factors can be weighed in order to make a decision. The study uses the Saudi Government agencies as a case study and makes several specific recommendations that pertain to the Saudi authorities' implementation of cloud computing. Although...
The rounding modes of floating point arithmetic are usually simplified in implementations of alternative number systems, including the Logarithmic Number System (LNS), to a single round-to-nearest mode requiring internal guard bits that are exponentially expensive to provide. Noting that rounding takes significant time and hardware, this paper describes two innovations that enhance LNS performance,...
Nowadays, many research works are moving toward the definition of models for human decision support systems within business process executions. Existing solutions, in general, do not take into account the context in which such processes run but they provide rigid models that could erroneously support decision-making activities when a different context needs to be considered. This work focuses on the...
Graduates are expected to be skilled across disciplines and provide holistic solutions. Hence, scaffolding is crucial as transfer of learning does not occur naturally and teaching-learning strategies found to be effective for experts may not be adopted similarly for novice learners. We hypothesize that if we can help students to model in relation to the ecosystem, they should be able to identify or...
Unlike most of the empirical analysis, this paper applies netlogo multi agent simulation software to explore the complex and dynamic relationship between team commitment, knowledge sharing and performance. Combined with related parametric evolution curves, concluding: teams with higher level of commitment have bigger scale and higher total output, average level of output and level of effort decrease...
Radical innovation enterprise's acquiring of innovational resources through network embeddedness helps to improve its innovation performance. Meanwhile, to obtain innovation legitimacy relying on network embeddedness is a critical element to ensure the success of radical innovation and get access to resource under the constraints of institutional environment. Following this principle, literature review...
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...
In light of a disturbingly low political participation, governments around the world try novel approaches to re-encourage citizens to make use of their democratic rights. A currently popular strategy is the implementation of digital participation platforms. Since the emergence of these tools, a true success has yet to be confirmed. One attempt to increase the usage of digital participation tools and...
The effective service design can be achieved by implementing collaboration work from domain experts and customers. This research depicts a conceptual service design framework: design-oriented systematic inventive thinking (DSIT) which can be applied in different problem contexts. It divides the real world design scenarios into four dimensions, and then provides the fitting integrated service design...
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of how a digital health innovation ecosystem was conceptualised and validated for South Africa. Largely, we focus on defining strategies to build Digital Health Innovation Ecosystems in the context of developing countries, and pay particular attention to the challenges and potentials. Over a period of two years the conceptualisation was done by applying...
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...
ZoneIT — at the University of the Western Cape renamed in UDUBSit — was first developed by the University of Ghent in Belgium as a sharing application for and by the student community. This app is adapted and contextualised to the UWC context by way of a living lab approach. This paper describes and analyses the results from the needs analysis, which formed the first step in the living lab approach...
Building on the theory of Social Capital the present theoretical study aims to introduce a framework to analyze the extent to which the innovation capability of Chinese firms is affected by Guanxi as a moderator between the former and the knowledge sharing behaviors among individuals and teams. The three dimensions of knowledge sharing considered here are: Type of knowledge, quantity and quality of...
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