Innovation Ability Research Articles

The panel threshold analysis of digitalization on manufacturing industry’s green total factor productivity

Green and sustainable development of manufacturing industry has become the developing trend, and green total factor productivity is an important indicator for measuring the green growth of the manufacturing industry. The rapid development of digitalization provides new opportunities for the improvement of manufacturing industry’s green total factor productivity (IGTFP). However, there exists two different perspectives of “digital promotion effect” and “digital inhibition effect” presently, which causes “digital paradox”. That is, digitalization may have a non-linear effect on IGTFP. Therefore, this study focuses on the industry level and aims to test the threshold impact of digitalization on IGTFP. Furthermore, this study tries to explore the boundary conditions and applicability of the green driving effect of digitalization on sub-industries from the perspective of heterogeneous technological innovation abilities in different industries. The empirical study is based on the panel data of 29 manufacturing industries in China 2012–2019. The empirical results show that: (1) Digitalization has a significant threshold impact on IGTFP, and the research results are still robust according to changing the threshold variable algorithm and carrying on a Winsorize test. (2) Industry technological innovation (ITI) plays a threshold role in the process of digitalization impact on IGTFP. (3) Heterogeneity analysis shows that the impact mechanism varies depending on differentiated industry factor intensity and industry pollution degree. Therefore, policymakers should formulate differentiated industry digitalization strategies.

Collaborative regulation of eco-environment pressure and sci-technology innovation ability in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration with environmental footprint integrated inversion

Collaborative regulation of eco-environment pressure and sci-technology innovation ability in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration with environmental footprint integrated inversion

FPE–Transformer: A Feature Positional Encoding-Based Transformer Model for Attack Detection

The increase in cybersecurity threats has made attack detection systems critically important. Traditional deep learning methods often require large amounts of data and struggle to understand relationships between features effectively. With their self-attention mechanism, Transformers excel in modeling complex relationships and long-term dependencies. They are also adaptable to various data types and sources, making them advantageous in large-scale attack detection scenarios. This paper introduces the FPE–Transformer framework, leveraging the strengths of the Transformer architecture. FPE–Transformer incorporates an innovative feature positional encoding mechanism that encodes the positional information of each feature separately, enabling a deeper understanding of feature relationships and more precise attack detection. Additionally, the model includes a ClassificationHead for enhanced accuracy and complex pattern recognition. The framework’s performance was validated using the NSL-KDD and CIC-IDS2017 datasets, demonstrating its superiority over traditional methods in detecting diverse attack types and improving overall performance. This study highlights FPE–Transformer’s innovative approach and ability to address key limitations of traditional deep learning methods, establishing it as a robust solution for modern attack detection challenges.

Integration and Innovation of Traditional Skills and Modern Design in Art Education

With the rapid development of socio-economic conditions and the acceleration of globalization, the art education community is continually exploring methods to integrate traditional techniques with modern design education, thereby fostering innovation. This study selects representative traditional Chinese craft techniques, such as paper-cutting, blue calico printing, and ceramic painting, and examines how these skills are applied and their innovative significance in modern design teaching. The research employed in-depth interviews and case study methods, involving teachers and students from 20 renowned art institutions, and conducting detailed case studies on 5 exemplary student design works. By comparing traditional teaching models with modern design teaching models that incorporate traditional skills, this study explores the new applications and possibilities of traditional crafts in modern design education. The results indicate that the introduction of traditional crafts not only enhances the cultural significance and aesthetic value of design works but also inspires students' innovation and practical abilities. In teaching practices, the combination of traditional crafts and modern design technologies, through creative transformation and adaptation, can effectively enrich the content of art education and provide students with new means of expression and ways of thinking. This study calls for art educators to focus on the protection and inheritance of traditional craft skills and to organically combine their wisdom with modern design education to achieve cultural innovation and the modernization of education.

Research on the Dynamic Mechanisms of the Synergetic Development of Construction Industry Clusters

Exploring pathways for sustainable synergistic development is a challenging issue for the construction industry, which is currently in a critical period of transformation. Current research has confirmed that industrial clusters are an important organizational form for promoting sustainable synergistic development. However, the existing research on construction industry clusters has overly focused on cluster attribute analysis and evaluation. Investigating the core mechanisms of synergistic development within construction industry clusters is particularly crucial. From the perspectives of ecological and synergetic theories, this paper constructs the ecosystem of the construction industry cluster and analyzes its synergistic development process. It identifies the driving factors of the synergistic development of the construction industry cluster and uses the ISM model to determine the structural hierarchical relationships among factors. Taking Shandong Province as the data sample, this study employs the Haken model to conduct an empirical investigation of the level of synergy and its driving mechanisms, establishing a three-stage framework for the driving mechanisms. The results show the following results: (1) Operating efficiency and innovation ability are the top factors to promote the synergistic development of the construction industry. (2) Market demand, as an order parameter, is an important condition for triggering and amplifying fluctuations in the construction industry cluster system, and it acts as a controlling factor to promote the system’s self-organization evolution to a new ordered and stable state. (3) The construction industry cluster in Shandong Province is in the initial stage of low synergy and is gradually evolving to moderate synergy. From a new research perspective, this study helps construction industry planners and policymakers understand the mechanisms of evolution and key driving factors of construction industry clusters.

Research on the integration of project-based teaching design and academic competitions in architectural education under the background of new engineering

This study addresses the reform of architectural education under the new engineering background, exploring the integration strategies of project-based teaching design and academic competitions, aiming to enhance the practical and innovative abilities of architecture students. The paper analyzes the connection between architectural professional education and academic competitions, as well as the interplay between project-based teaching and academic competitions, focusing on improving students' innovative abilities, teaching quality, participation, and fairness. The research constructs a comprehensive evaluation system framework to ensure the consistency of evaluation criteria with teaching and competition objectives and proposes implementation steps to optimize teaching and learning experiences.

Implementation Creative-Based Learning on Enhancing the Innovative Abilities of Education Students

This paper studies the classroom teaching mode under the category of innovative learning methods to improve the "innovative skills" scores of first-year education students in University. And learning is certainly different from the research of scientists; however, it also requires students to dare to get rid of the old, dare to make new, and dare to explore what they have learned with multiple ways of thinking. This study aims 1) to Use creativity-based learning to enhance the innovation skills of education major students. 2) to Compare the innovation skills of education major students before and after the implementation of creativity-based learning. This study mixed research method of both qualitative and quantitative approaches. An innovative research methodology was adopted, which is a comprehensive innovation project composed of components such as classroom activities, current teaching conditions, innovation topics, and questionnaires. The sample group consists of 100 first-year education major students from Chengdu Normal University in Chengdu, China, who were randomly selected through cluster sampling. The findings that the average score of students before learning training course was 98 points, and after learning training course, it increased to an average of 144 points, with an average difference of 56 points. The results indicate that after learning training course is better. In summary, the study on enhancing the innovative skills of education students through creative based learning demonstrated significant improvements

Research on Messaging Applications as Mediators to Enhance Design Creativity in Industrial Design Students in China

Background and Aim: In globalization, creativity emerges as a pivotal factor in bolstering the competitiveness of nations and individuals. Therefore, fostering students' creativity becomes a crucial goal of education and a key driver for societal development and innovation. This study, with its potential to determine the factors that affect the design creativity of industrial design students through messaging applications, holds significant promise. The research framework includes variables such as design creativity (DC), knowledge sharing (KS), cooperative learning (CL), inspiration (IN), creative self-efficacy (CS), and the use of messaging applications (UMA). By exploring the influence of educational methods on creativity development through the analysis of students' creative generation process in messaging applications, we aim to provide new perspectives and tools that could profoundly impact creativity and educational research. Materials and Methods: In this research, we meticulously collected 467 valid questionnaires from colleges and universities in Sichuan Province, China, employing rigorous quantitative methods and questionnaire surveys. To ensure the utmost accuracy of the questionnaire data, we conducted a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to test the relationship between the observed variables and the potential variables. Subsequently, we employed the structural equation model (SEM) to test the research hypothesis comprehensively. Applying these two analytical techniques underscores the scientific rigor of our research methods and the robustness of our results. Result: The results of data analysis show that the use of message application, knowledge sharing, cooperative learning, inspiration, and creative self-efficacy significantly affect design creativity. Using message application as an intermediary variable improves industrial design students' knowledge-sharing and creative self-efficacy, thus enhancing their design creativity. However, the intermediary role of message application between inspiration, collaborative learning, and design creativity is not significant. This finding contrasts with the results of pilot tests, reflecting the differences in educational strategies implemented by different educators in influencing students' interaction and inspiration in collaborative learning. Conclusion: Studying the use of message applications to enhance creativity can promote educational equity and social interaction and stimulate interdisciplinary learning and collective wisdom. At the same time, cultivate students' innovative skills and lifelong learning and innovation ability. The research results provide educators with insights into how industrial design students can use new applications more effectively to improve their design creativity and confirm the effectiveness of students' creativity self-assessment. Therefore, in educational practice, the design creativity self-assessment scale can be used to evaluate students' design works. In addition, this study can be used as a reference for teaching and creativity research in other art disciplines.

Unlocking organizational ambidexterity via the role of cross-functional coopetition in quick-service restaurants

The study seeks to understand the antecedents influencing the effectiveness of cross-functional coopetition and the consequences that go deeper into the significance of cross-functional coopetition within Quick-Service Restaurants (QSRs) by examining its impact on organisational ambidexterity, specifically exploitative and exploratory innovation. Using partial least structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM), data was collected from 336 employees in QSRs. While the results confirmed the hypothesized relationships, development culture and hierarchy culture have no relationship to cross-functional coopetition. There is a link between cross-functional coopetitive ability and competition in (a) exploitative innovation and (b) exploratory innovation, but social cohesion makes that link stronger. Cross-functional coopetition partially mediates the relationship between both ‘organisational structure and culture’ and organisational ambidexterity. General implications of the findings for coopetition and research on both ‘organisational structure and culture’ and organisational ambidexterity are discussed.

Effects of rural industrial integration development on the performance of entrepreneurial enterprises of returning college students

This study used structural equation model (SEM) to investigate the mechanism of integrated development of rural industries (IDRI) on the performance of college students’ returning entrepreneurial enterprises (CSREE). The results show that: (1) IDRI significantly promotes the performance of CSREE, which is consistent with the theory of “sixth industry”. (2) The length, width, and depth of rural industrial integration have a significant effect on CSREE. Among them, the depth of rural industrial integration has the greatest degree of direct influence on CSREE, followed by the width of rural industrial integration, and finally the length of rural industrial integration. (3) IDRI indirectly has a positive impact on the performance of CSREE through internal technological innovation ability and cooperative development ability. Seize the great opportunity of rural integration development to further improve the performance of CSREE. The specific ways are as follows: (1) The government should make overall planning, first determine the local leading industries, establish the whole industrial chain, and give full play to the various functions of agriculture. At the same time, the government should actively guide agricultural enterprises to develop in the direction of internal integration of planting and breeding, three-dimensional agriculture, and other industries, extend the length of the industrial chain, broaden the width of the industrial chain, and deepen the depth of industrial integration, so as to optimize the external environment for college students to return home and start businesses. (2) In the process of returning to their hometowns to start businesses, college students should attach importance to improving internal technological innovation capability and cooperation development capability, cultivate “internal strengths”, and comprehensively improve enterprise performance.

Research on Benefit Distribution of Old Residential Area Renovation Projects under the New PPP Mechanism

The introduction of the new PPP mechanism will bring about huge changes in the implementation methods and revenue sources of old residential area renovation PPP projects implemented in the past in China. In order to cope with thechanges brought about by the new PPP mechanism and ensure the smooth implementation of the project, it is necessary to study and explore the scientific and reasonable revenue distribution mechanism for old residential area renovation projects under the new PPP mechanism. Based on the research achievements of predecessors and the characteristics of the project, this paper determines the four indicators of resource input ratio, risk allocation ratio, innovation ability, and community residents' satisfaction as the influencing factors of project revenue distribution, and uses them to revise the initial Shapley value revenue distribution model. The paper then conducts an empirical analysis of the M old residential area renovation project in H City as an example. After the revision, the social capital will receive higher project revenue allocation than the initial allocation value due to its greater resource input, greater risk allocation proportion, stronger innovation ability, and higher community residents' satisfaction, verifying the fairness and rationality of the revenue distribution model constructed in this paper and its ability to motivate the participation entities to improve both the economic and social benefits of the project and promote the successful completion of the project. The research content of this paper can provide ideas for the revenue distribution scheme research of old residential area renovation projects under the new PPP mechanism, and has certain reference value.

The ANP method to relate innovative personal competencies in sustainable development in Ecuadorian fruit exporting SMEs

The development of the personal innovative competences in workers is of capital importance for the competitiveness of organizations, where the ability of the employees must respond in an innovative way to diverse situations that arise in specific contexts. Considering this, the question arises: How do innovative employees’ competences affect the sustainable development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)? Therefore, the objective of this work is to present a multi-criteria method based on the Analytic Network Process (ANP), to relate innovative personal competences and the sustainable development of MSMEs. An instrument was applied to groups of experts from 31 Ecuadorian fruit-exporting MSMEs, to develop a multi-criteria decisional network that allowed identifying the innovative personal abilities that have the greatest impact on the sustainable development of these organizations. The results demonstrate the relevance of the elements of innovative personal competencies, with a cumulative participation of 39.15%, Sustainable Export Development with 32.18% and Improvements with 28.66%. It also presents three types of analysis: i) Global to establish the weight of each variable; ii) Influences, to establish solid cause-effect relationships between the variables and iii) Integrated. The most relevant innovative personal competences for sustainable development and improvements for exporting SMEs are teamwork, critical thinking, and creativity within the international context.

Research on the Role of Digital Finance in Urban Green Innovation

Promoting green innovation is an important way to implement the dual carbon strategy and build an innovative country. Based on the panel data of 250 cities in China from 2011 to 2018, this paper constructs a two-way fixed-effect model, an intermediary effect model and a spatial Durbin model, and empirically studies the impact and mechanism of digital finance on urban green innovation. The results show that digital finance can improve the ability of urban green innovation, and its enabling effect mainly comes from improving the financial service model and improving the digital level. However, the role of digital finance in improving the efficiency of green innovation is not significant. Digital finance can promote urban green innovation by promoting the development of the Internet and alleviating the distortion of labor factors. A good environment for innovation will enhance the role of digital finance in promoting green innovation. Through further analysis, the spatial spillover effect of digital finance on green innovation at this stage is dominated by the siphon effect while the “trickle-down” effect is blocked.

Spatio-temporal differentiation and influencing factors of high-quality development of agriculture and rural areas in China

High-quality development refers to an efficient, equitable and sustainable development aimed at meeting the growing needs of individuals for a better life, and is an inevitable requirement for agriculture and rural areas development. Based on data at the provincial level, this study used the entropy method, Dagum Gini coefficient decomposition, and spatial Markov chain to estimate the spatio-temporal differentiation of high-quality development of agriculture and rural areas (HQDAR) in China from 2008 to 2022. Additionally, the geographically and temporally weighted regression was employed to analyze the spatial heterogeneity of influencing factors. The results showed that: (1) During the study period, the level of HQDAR in China increased steadily, and the spatial distribution showed a pattern of highest in the eastern region, followed by the center and the lowest in the west. (2) The HQDAR in China had obvious spatial agglomeration characteristics. Hot spots were primarily situated in some eastern and central provinces, while cold spots were primarily situated in the western regions. (3) There were clear spatial differences in the HQDAR in China, mainly due to inter-regional differences, followed by intra-regional differences and hypervariable density. (4) The HQDAR in China maintained the stability of the original state and demonstrated an obvious trend of overall upward transfer. The neighborhood background had an important influence on the change in its transfer, and the influence of varying neighborhood backgrounds was different. (5) The influencing factors showed significant spatio-temporal heterogeneity. The urbanization level, transportation infrastructure, scientific and technological innovation ability, and Internet penetration rate mainly had positive effects, while industrial structure and rural population aging mainly had negative effects. These findings can provide relevant policy recommendations for improving the quality of agriculture and rural areas.

The Influence of Innovative Leadership Ability, Managerial Ability, Work Behavior, and Work Commitment on Work Productivity at Elementary Schools in Lebak Regency

This study examines the influence of innovative leadership ability, managerial ability, work behavior, and work commitment on the work productivity of elementary school teachers in Lebak Regency. Using a quantitative approach and multiple linear regression analysis, this study finds that innovative leadership and work commitment have significant effects on teacher work productivity. The study also shows that these variables are correlated in creating a productive and innovative learning environment. This research provides practical insights for elementary school administrators in Lebak Regency regarding the importance of the principal's role in enhancing work productivity through innovative managerial approaches.

Open Innovation or Traditional Patenting Strategies to Efficiently Address Health Emergencies? How Patent Information Was Used Towards Effective Treatments for COVID-19.

During the 1150 days of COVID-19 pandemic there were great efforts to develop efficient treatments for the disease. After this long time, some drugs emerged as treatment for COVID-19. Some of them are new drugs, most of them, known drugs. These developments were triggered by information already available in patent documents. Pharmaceutical companies, therefore, rushed to conduct drugs evaluations and trials in order to deliver to the world a reasonable treatment that could reach the majority of its population. However, it is not immediately clear how companies operated to reach their goals. The ability of open innovation to achieve results assertively and faster than closed innovation strategies is questioned and therefore, it is questioned whether pharmaceutical companies use open innovation to face COVID-19. In this work, data available on patent databases were mined to inform about the scientific and technological panorama of selected drugs tested for COVID-19 treatment and to understand the perspectives of such developments during the pandemic. This study evidenced that most treatments were based on known drugs, that some of the initially promising drugs were abandoned during the pandemic, and that it was able to inform if open innovation and collaborations were explored strategies. This study evidenced that the developments during COVID-19 were not based on open innovation by revealing a patent race towards the treatment development, but with practically no collaborations or information exchange between companies, universities, and research facilities.

An evaluation method of innovation and entrepreneurship ability of college students based on implicit knowledge mining

An evaluation method of innovation and entrepreneurship ability of college students based on implicit knowledge mining

Enhancing chemistry undergraduates innovation ability through the implementation of the innovative instructional process

Enhancing chemistry undergraduates innovation ability through the implementation of the innovative instructional process

Research on technological innovation decision-making considering government subsidies and corporate reputation.

Aiming at the information asymmetry between pharmaceutical enterprises' technological innovation decisions and government subsidy strategy, this paper establishes a differential game model consisting of the government and a single pharmaceutical company, proposes three different government subsidy strategies, and obtains an equilibrium solution with the help of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, taking into consideration of the transmission effect of the enterprise's reputation. First, the innovation decisions of pharmaceutical firms without government subsidies are analysed, and based on this, the optimal strategies with government subsidies for non-cooperative pacts and cooperation between the government and enterprises are analysed separately. In addition, the effects of different subsidy strategies on the government's investment efficiency, corporate reputation, and the choice of corporate innovation strategies are compared, and the results are verified by numerical analysis. Finally, based on the results of the study, references and suggestions are provided for the formulation of government subsidy policies as well as corporate innovation decisions. The results show that: government subsidies can effectively stimulate the innovation ability of pharmaceutical enterprises and improve their reputation; the more sensitive an enterprise's reputation is to the coefficient of technological innovation, the more it can improve the enterprise's innovation level; and the coordination contract of government-enterprise cooperation can realize the Pareto improvement of the benefits of the government and enterprises.

Exploration of Practical Teaching of Resource Recycling Science and Engineering Major Based on the Training of Applied Talents

Resource recycling science and engineering is a new interdisciplinary subject. In order to meet the needs of the development of the circular economy, it is highly necessary to improve students’ innovative abilities and practical skills. This paper analyzes the problems existing in the practical teaching of this major and puts forward some approaches to the construction of practical teaching of resource-based major from the aspects of content system construction of practical teaching of resource recycling major, deep cooperation between schools and enterprises, construction of dual-teacher teams, and integration teaching of industry-university-research competition. It has effectively improved the training quality of applied talents in the resource recycling major.