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This paper will focus on how ICT in the classroom could really work to provide the children the education they need in this 21st century. Learning for children with the use of ICT in the classroom can work if teachers have the ability and skills to integrate ICT in their classroom. This is where the headmasters play a crucial role, if the teachers are supported by the surrounding education system...
Classical theory “Lotka's Law” has been proven in many fields that the number of persons who contribute n outputs is about 1/nα of those who contribute one output, where the exponent α is a parameter about 2 to 3 in the most cases reported previously. Our analysis on patent productivity of inventors in Japan shows different characteristics from the results of previous studies on US and European firms...
Frugal innovations in products are vital in developing countries to reach price sensitive customers that seek robust products at low prices. Similarly frugal service innovations can create larger markets among customers that cannot afford expensive conventional services. While frugal innovations in products are easily identified by expert examination, frugal innovations in services cannot be identified...
Firms rely more and more on external collaboration partners to reduce the R&D cost as well as shorten the product life cycle. Open innovation become a new paradigm for firms to become competitive in a highly dynamic business environment. Firm's collaboration partner extents from customers, suppliers to university, research institute, and even competitors, the resource based view hold that different...
One of the most important issues in technology management at manufacturing companies is to realize “process innovations” that will improve current activities and business processes in order to produce high-quality, low-cost products, systems, infrastructures and services with a short lead time by fully utilizing manufacturing technologies. Design for manufacturability (DFM) is one of the effective...
The purpose of this work-in-progress paper is to report on the processes that are taking place at ISMB, an Italian research center active in the ICT domain. The links between research and higher education at ISMB are explained. The outcomes of a general assessment on existing courses are discussed, describing the profiles of courses included in ISMB portfolio, from those devoted to purely technological...
Propagation is a widespread goal of education materials development. If an educational innovation is effective in one environment, many developers want to share it with other instructors and institutions to have a larger impact and improve education more broadly. Studying the propagation process is one way to learn more about the aspects that contribute to propagation of particular educational innovations...
Innovation management of automotive control systems is a challenging issue not least because of the need to handle short iterative life cycles and families of these systems. After collecting experience in control engineering from a three year collaboration in the automotive domain, we conclude that innovation management is only weakly aligned with feature and platform development. This situation makes...
An academic spin-off is a new company born by the idea of merging the competences of different academic or institutional research groups. The main goal of a spin-off is to transfer and commercialize technological innovations. This article describes a high-technology Italian innovative spin-off named DInESto, (Drive the Innovation in Energy Storage); the core business of this company is in the field...
This paper examines the variables that determine innovation ecosystem reconfiguration under disruptive technological change. The study focuses on the impact of disruption upon the innovation ecosystem, which is the network of firms that collaborate in producing a holistic, integrated product system. Three disruptive innovations — Bakelite, the microwave oven, and the photocopier — and respective ecosystems...
Ecology and human ecology environment are closely related, with very strong practicality, ecology has the widespread application value in natural science, social science and society development relevant to many aspects. Ecology also has an important guiding significance on the development of smart city management. Smart city system has similar structure and characteristics to ecological system, there...
This article presents the "Nutrition at Play" Behavior Modification Technology with which the promotion of the consumption of fruits and vegetables is aimed. The technology is based on the guidelines of the Brazilian Ministry of Health’s Alimentary Guide, and on the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Modification. It was designed for adult audiences, industry workers, aware or unaware of...
Concepts in Formal Languages and Theory of Computation remain to be vague and complicated for students undergoing undergraduate computer sciences programmes. Moreover, the volume of learning content delivered as mere lectures in a course semester also causes disinterest among students studying these courses in tier-3 engineering institutions. Considering the present generation students and their learning...
Web Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) is widely used electronic library catalogues giving a wealth of remote access to library information resources. The end user satisfaction of the system is vital to ensure the continuation usage of Web OPAC. Most of the previous studies focused on the interface and the system itself instead of the end user satisfaction. This study is aim to integrate end user...
This study focuses on the seals, especially European wax seals. We use THz spectroscopy imaging for non-destructive evaluation of natural materials. Using a time domain THz spectroscopy and imaging system, THz reflection images are generated in the 0.1–3 THz range and demonstrate that we can inspect the internal structure under a thick layer of old wax. X-Ray images will be used as a reference and...
There is controversy among scientists whether standards and regulations hamper or stimulate innovation. Using a new approach and a different data set, we argue with Swann and Lambert (2010) that this controversy is based on a false antithesis. Building on Swann and Lambert (2010), Swann (DTI, 2005) and King (2006) we focus on pre-existing standards and regulations, i.e., those that are not specific...
There are most of failure projects in the enterprises. And many resources in these projects do not have their full effect in day-to-day operation of enterprises. There is no doubt that knowledge resources of these resources have important value and play an irreplaceable role for the development of enterprises. This paper aims of analyzing the knowledge resources in failure projects, establishes the...
Although industrial cluster attracts great attention, it still holds some research deficiencies. Rare exploration about cluster's external linkage is the most significant one. To make up such deficiency, this paper takes hub-spoke industrial cluster as example to analyze the influence and effect path of external linkage on cluster. Finally for more information about external linkage's effects, this...
As technical communication in the contemporary world becomes more complex and globalized, there is a need for a theoretical framework that captures the general building blocks of communication strategies. In this article I first identify three key dimensions of communication strategies and then situate communication strategy in the literature of rhetorical invention. I contend that previous scholars...
The enterprise research and development (in short, R&D) system is the basis of the regional, industrial, and even national innovation system. The coupling degree of the enterprise R&D system elements and the interaction relationships between the elements and the external environment will both cause deep influence on all kinds of the innovation systems which are mentioned above. In contrast...
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