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Due to the rapid growth of venture capital industry in developing countries, it is essential to provide a diagnosis on its development and future growth in order to maintain its success and continuous financing support on local firms. This study will focus on the venture capital industry in Bangladesh because it was established barely for seven years and there are only a total of four venture capital...
Although service innovations present characteristics that make them different from innovation in goods, literature presents traditional innovation management models, whose development has been based on the experience of manufacturing industries, as valid and applicable to service companies. Service innovation may take place in multiple dimensions, considering technological and non-technological elements...
The growing prevalence of technology-driven concepts, such as the "Internet of things" or "Industry 4.0", holds substantial potentials for service sectors worldwide. In this context, "Smart Services" describe data-based, individually configurable bundles of physically delivered services, digital services as well as physical products, which are usually performed on integrated...
The study is to evaluate computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) utilization patterns among health care related patients and other patients. Methods: The data for 2011 to 2013 were collected from the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) published by the National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan. Propensity score matching was used to control the medical professional...
Historically, nanotechnology faces the same challenges of every new, emerging and science-based industry. The transfer of viable knowledge from science to market needs to be better bridged. To enhance this transfer, a methodology is designed which integrates engineering design and subject-actionobject (SAO) text mining. The methodology is used to find, select and evaluate appropriate nanotechnologies...
With the implementation of China's innovative national development strategy, R&D cooperation has become an important way to enhance technological innovation capability of enterprises. Inter-firm R&D cooperation promote enterprises to obtain complementary knowledge and ability, and has an important impact on technological innovation and development of enterprises. However, as a result of the...
Recent studies shed light on the key elements that influence the link among research funds, collaborative activities and scientific outputs. However, most researches focused on the effects of research fund, and cooperation was only considered as an independent determinant of research productivity. In this paper we evaluate the mediating role of cooperation in the relationship between research fund...
In promoting the creation of innovation, it is imperative that new technological seeds developed by universities are transferred to private companies; in recent years, such awareness has been on the rise. To promote technology transfer, it is important to comprehend its relationship with its influencing factors. We assumed a three-layer structure, meaning that basic research promotes industry-academia...
This research is about applying life cycle analysis in evaluations of research and innovation policy, especially for research infrastructures. It focused on gaining insights of management challenges or issues of research infrastructure in Taiwan by using scanning of previous policy documents, interviews and a focus group with stakeholders. The result found that many issues were derived from lacking...
The Bayh-Dole Act provides a good learning model for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. In 2015, China revised "the Law to Promote the Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements in People's Republic of China" to try to improve the status of domestic technological transformation. This paper studies on the transformation of scientific and technological...
Since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that occurred in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the use of renewable energy has become one of the major pillars of Japan's energy strategy. The Japanese Government has therefore introduced a feed-in tariff policy for renewable energy in order to promote its use. Among the various types of renewable energy, one type that has attracted much...
We have come to accept that approximately onethird of projects are successful, one-third of projects suffer from overruns of time or cost or failed delivery of desired functionality and fully one-third are abandoned as complete failures. These dismal statistics have defied years of project management research and all manner of innovative ideas ranging from the early introduction of critical path methods,...
Recent studies of "regional innovation system" (RIS) are mostly on technology- driven clusters, but few on demand-driven "rural-based RIS." From the perspectives of value co-creation, there are still few discussed on the rural-based RIS by culture and creative motives. To integrate such theoretical gap, this study grounds on RIS and PPP (publicprivate-partnership) from qualitative...
Taiwan is a country with fairly high internet and smart phone penetration. By 2014, more than 70% of Taiwanese over the age of 15 owned a smart phone. Using Facebook online or via mobile internet has gradually become an accepted innovation for most Taiwanese, especially for the new generation. Among Taiwan's population of 23 million populations, there are 18 million Facebook (FB) users. Some Taiwanese...
Recent studies have highlighted that social commerce has become a new type of electronic commerce since consumers' shopping behavior is heavily influenced by social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter), such as reading comments and feedback on products. It is important to note that the development of social commerce has caught the attention of business practitioners; moreover, it is also essential for...
In this paper, we present the emergence of a new phenomenon in which entrepreneurs consider sustainability and mutual benefit as the foundation of their new venture. Competition is no longer a tacit assumption. We draw upon the literature of industrial and organizational ecology to term this strategy "Symbiotic Mutualism." Here, "symbiotic" refers to the ability of an organization...
International Business Machines (IBM) points out that academics and industries pay a higher attention on "Service Science" since 1985. With the rotation of the wheel of a service era, many companies has driven from production to service-orientation, and focus on manufacturing services field. In the past, high-tech companies with leading technologies and unique products were ahead of other...
This research overviews and analyses the studies on venture businesses, start-ups, or entrepreneurs which play more and more important roles in our societies through the analysis by time-series approach and by individual countries. Firstly we extracted academic papers including the words "venture," "start-up," or "entrepreneur" in the titles and abstracts from the Web...
Computer-aided detection (CAD) has been a promising research area over the last two decades in the medical field. CAD usually supports doctors by marking medical images with potential lesions. This technology has performed many remarkable accomplishments in the laboratory and has been used for some medical cases (e.g., breast cancer and colorectal cancer). However, its health-economic impact (i.e...
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