Acceleration Program Research Articles

СОВЕРШЕНСТВОВАНИЕ СИСТЕМЫ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНЫМИ ПРОГРАММАМИ ВЫСШЕГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ НА ОСНОВЕ ДАННЫХ

The article reveals the importance of the processes of digital transformation of universities and the development of digitalization of management decisions based on data. The authors rely on the experience of leading universities of the Russian Federation and the competencies acquired by a team of employees of the Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “Dostoevsky Omsk State University” in the process of participation in the “Program for the development of anti-crisis leaders and teams of the digital economy CLICK”, implemented as part of the federal project “Personnel for the Digital Economy”. The result of the work of the team within the framework of this acceleration and educational program was the project “Managerial Improvement of Educational Programs of Higher Education Based on Data”, the purpose of which was to improve the quality and speed of decision-making in the field of educational process management in an educational institution.

Predicting the success of seed-stage startups to enter the acceleration program and receive seed money

Predicting the success of seed-stage startups to enter the acceleration program and receive seed money

ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ПІДТРИМКИ ТА РОЗВИТКУ НАЦІОНАЛЬНОЇ ЕКОСИСТЕМИ СТАРТАП-ПІДПРИЄМНИЦТВА РУМУНІЇ

The article is devoted to issues of state support and development of the startup ecosystem in the example of Romania. The peculiarities and reasons for its formation, as well as the characteristics of the main startups of the country, main directions of startup entrepreneurship development, PESTEL, and SWOT analysis of the national ecosystem of startups in Romania, are considered. The article analyzes the features of the ecosystem of startups in Romania: the growth of global investment and revival of Romanian investors in local startups, increasing the average size of checks for seed stages of financing, development of venture and innovation infrastructure, and the formation of 5 cities for startups in the global ranking of startup ecosystems StartupBlink. The article reviews the state support for startup entrepreneurship in countries, including the Start, Incubators, and Entrepreneurship Encouragement and Development Programs. Factors of the development of the local ecosystem of Romanian startups have been identified. The ecosystem of startups is attractive to global investors due to the pool of talented technicians and engineers, the availability of high-speed Internet and opportunities for startups to enter the European market, and the availability of effective acceleration programs for startups and digital infrastructure. The strengths and weaknesses of the local ecosystem of Romanian startups have been identified. Insufficient government policy to support startups, in particular in coordinating various programs and tools to boost entrepreneurship; the need to improve the regulatory framework of the country to the needs of digital technology; bureaucratic obstacles to starting and running a startup; the lack of entrepreneurship educa- tion programs in secondary and higher education are attributed to the problematic and weak points in the development of the local ecosystem of startups in Romania. The study allowed us to study the experience of developing the ecosystem of Romanian startups as an example to follow in the Ukrainian environment. Despite the political and economic situation in Ukraine, the is- sue of government assistance in the formation and development of cities for startups will significantly accelerate the process of postwar reconstruction of our country

Predicting the success of seed-stage startups to enter the acceleration program and receive seed money

Predicting the success of seed-stage startups to enter the acceleration program and receive seed money

Implementation of the Policy of Poverty Alleviation Acceleration Program in Bokat District, Buol Regency, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia

The purpose of this study is to explore the implementation of the poverty alleviation acceleration program policy through the regional government's leading programs, especially maize commodity, in Bokat District, Buol Regency. It relied on a qualitative descriptive approach by revealing the phenomenon encountered by the farmers who received assistance in several villages, Bokat District. Data collection techniques involved interviews with several informants, continuous observations, and documents related to the poverty alleviation policy in Buol Regency. Further, data analysis was performed by data reduction and presentation, along with conclusion drawing. The results show that the policy has been implemented according to the predetermined stages through Regional Regulation Number 7 of 2015, including community outreach, business capital strengthening, empowerment, monitoring, and evaluation. However, it is found out that the policy is yet to be optimal. The community outreach conducted by the government has not been effective since only a few people took part. This stage also provides business capital strengthening by giving them processing fees, seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides. Still, both stages are only carried out in the first year at each location where the poverty alleviation acceleration program is promoted. In addition, an empowerment program that can support the development of maize commodity as the regional government's leading program has not been executed. Monitoring and evaluation of such a policy have not been entirely performed, impacting different levels of success each village reaches. On this ground, the poverty alleviation acceleration program policy needs to be re-evaluated to also detect any problems in the area, increase people's income, and bring success to the policy implementation.

Optimalisasi Peran Tim Penggerak PKK Dalam Percepatan Vaksinasi Covid-19

Background: The existence of the Delta Covid-19 variant, which is easily contagious, has made the mortality rate due to Covid-19 infection in Indonesia experienced a sharp spike. One of the government's efforts to prevent and overcome the pandemic outbreak due to the spread of the Covid-19 virus is to carry out a vaccination program for the entire community by involving all existing lines. The purpose of this community service activity is to optimize the participation of the Movement Team for Empowerment and Family Welfare (TP.PKK) in the vaccination acceleration program in the community. Methods: Providing counseling to increase the role of cadres in the vaccination program to 11 TP.PKK cadres and distributing leaflets and masks. Results: TP.PKK has shown an increase in knowledge and understanding of its role and duties in the success of the vaccination acceleration program in the form of formulating strategic steps that will be carried out for the community. Conclusion: TP.PKK and regional stakeholders (hamlet, RT) are expected to work together to continue the work program that has been prepared.

IMPLEMENTATION OF GUIDELINES FOR CCELERATION OF IMPLEMENTATION ESTATE TOURISM EVELOPMENT (CASE STUDY AT LASIANA BEACH, KUPANG CITY, EAST NUSA TENGGARA PROVINCE)

This study aims to analyze and describe the implementation of the East Nusa Tenggara Governor's Regulation Number 85 of 2019 concerning Guidelines for Accelerating the Implementation of Estate Tourism Development in the Province of East Nusa Tenggara in 2019-2023, especially in Lasiana Beach, Kupang City. By using qualitative research methods with a case study approach. The results of this study indicate that the implementation of the Regulation of the Governor of East Nusa Tenggara has been going well. According to Van Meter Van Horn, there are 6 aspects in the implementation of this Governor's regulation, namely First, the size and objectives of the policy, have been well understood by the implementing staff but there are no clear measures or indicators to assess the implementation process of the Guidelines for Accelerating the Implementation of Estate Tourism Development in the Province of Nusa Southeastern East. Second, resources, from a human and financial perspective, are quite good. Third, the characteristics of the implementing agency/agency, for this factor is also quite good because in carrying out this program, the division of tasks for each employee already exists even though it is not included in the organizational structure. Fourth, the attitude/tendency of the implementers, from this point of view, is good because none of the implementers have rejected this program and has shown their support for this program by the participation of all employees at the Tourism and Creative Economy Office of East Nusa Tenggara Province. Fifth, communication between organizations and implementing activities, this factor is the most crucial in this implementation. It is necessary to improve communication between governments, both the East Nusa Tenggara Provincial Government, the Kupang City Government, the Central Kupang District Government and the Lasiana Village Government. Sixth, the economic, social and political environment, based on the results of research, the social and political environment has a positive effect on the implementation process of this program. Factors supporting the implementation of East Nusa Tenggara Governor Regulation Number 85 of 2019 concerning Guidelines for Accelerating the implementation of estate tourism development in East Nusa Tenggara Province in 2019-2023, especially at Lasiana Beach, Kupang City are the active role of the Government at all levels and the active role of the community in supporting the acceleration program tourism development in Lasiana Beach. Meanwhile, the inhibiting factor for the implementation of the East Nusa Tenggara Governor's Regulation Number 85 of 2019 concerning Guidelines for Accelerating the Implementation of Estate Tourism Development in the Province of East Nusa Tenggara.
 Keywords: Implementation of Public Policy, Acceleration of Tourism Development.

Startup accelerators as an open environment: The impact on startups’ innovative performance

Accelerator programs are emerging in recent years as a new model of startup assistance. However, despite the rapid proliferation of such programs, academic literature on the topic is surprisingly scarce. In particular, previous literature has neglected to investigate how the open environment provided by startup accelerators can enhance the innovation performance of accelerated startups despite Open Innovation practices are commonly adopted in acceleration programs. To address this gap, we investigate how startups participating in accelerator programs can enhance innovation performance through sources of external knowledge provided by startup accelerators. In doing so, we draw data from 113 startups accelerated by Italian accelerators since 2013. Our results reveal that different sources of external knowledge provided by accelerators are beneficial for different innovation outcomes contributing to the literature on accelerators. Moreover, our findings contribute to the literature on startups and open innovation highlighting that different external sources of knowledge increase innovation performance of startups.

Current Readiness Status of Electric Vehicles in Indonesia: Multistakeholder Perceptions

As a net oil importer since 2004, Indonesia’s success in developing fuel economy and infrastructure for electric vehicles would be vital to ensuring energy security and decarbonization from the transport sector. Following the Presidential Regulation on the Acceleration Program for battery-based EV for Road Transportation in 2019, the Indonesian government provides incentives for the domestic production of EVs. However, as EV technology is relatively new for the domestic automotive industry in Indonesia, it needs to go through stages of development to achieve full readiness in society. This study analyses the key stakeholders’ perceptions of EV industries using the Japanese technology readiness assessment (J-TRA) to better understand the current readiness level of EVs in Indonesia. Primary data are collected through interviews with an EV start-up company, experts in the EV field, government officials in charge of the national EV projects, and EV end-users. Extensive literature related to success stories of EV adoption in other countries was conducted as the basis for this study. The results showed that key stakeholders agree that EV technology has reached a high readiness level in technology development. Most of the stakeholders voted that the readiness bottleneck is commercialization, safety, and integration parameters. Furthermore, an elaborate policy recommendation gathered from both literature reviews and interviews with related stakeholders is presented.

Undifferentiated In Vitro Cultured Actinidia deliciosa as Cell Factory for the Production of Quercetin Glycosides.

Land plants produce a vast arsenal of specialized metabolites and many of them display interesting bioactivities in humans. Recently, flavonol quercetin gained great attention in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic because, in addition to the anti-inflammatory, antiviral and anti-cancer activity already described, it emerged as possible inhibitor of 3CLpro, the major protease of SARS-CoV-2 virus. Plant cell and tissue culture (PCTC) is an attractive platform for the biotechnological production of plant metabolites. This technology allows a large amount of water and agricultural land to be saved and, being free of contaminants in the process, it is suitable for scaling up the production in bioreactors. In a project aimed to generate and screen in vitro plant cells for the production of valuable specialized metabolites for commercial production, we generated various cell lines from Actinidia deliciosa (kiwi fruit tree) and Actinidia chinensis (gold kiwi fruit tree), that were able to produce relevant amounts of quercetin derivatives, mainly quercetin glycosides. Three cell lines from A. deliciosa were characterized by targeted and untargeted metabolomics. In standard growing conditions, they produce and accumulate up to 13.26 mg/100 g fresh weight (419.76 mg/100 g dry weight) of quercetin derivatives. To address future industrial applications, these cell lines should be entered into an acceleration program to further increase the amount of these metabolites by optimizing the culture conditions and elicitation.

Low Incidence of COVID-19 Infection in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia Undergoing Reduced Intensity/Venetoclax Based Treatment: Initial Results of the PACE Prospective Clinical Study from the UK Trials Acceleration Program

Low Incidence of COVID-19 Infection in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia Undergoing Reduced Intensity/Venetoclax Based Treatment: Initial Results of the PACE Prospective Clinical Study from the UK Trials Acceleration Program

EFEKTIVITAS PELAYANAN PENERBITAN KARTU KELUARGA MELALUI TANDA TANGAN ELEKTRONIK DI DINAS KEPENDUDUKAN DAN PENCATATAN SIPIL KOTA SOLOK PROVINSI SUMATERA BARAT

Electronic signatures are an innovation of the population acceleration program, aimed at making population documents more efficient without having to meet face-to-face. There are still damaged documents in the issuance of family cards and the limited number of employees who understand services through electronic signatures are problems. The purpose of the study was to determine the effectiveness of family card issuance services through electronic signatures, obstacles and efforts to overcome them. The method used is descriptive qualitative inductive approach. Data collection techniques were carried out by triangulation which included in-depth interviews (10 informants), observation and documentation. In this paper, an analysis of the effectiveness of family card issuance services through electronic signatures is carried out with the indicators studied, namely (1) Production or productivity, (2) Quality, (3) Efficiency, (4) Flexibility, and (5) Satisfaction. (Gibson and Steers in Sumaryadi (2005:107)).The results showed that the effectiveness of family card issuance services through electronic signatures had been implemented quite well, but still needed improvements in efficiency indicators. Barriers to the effectiveness of family card issuance services through electronic signatures, namely (1) Unstable Network Connections, (2) Lack of Human Resources, (3) Lack of supporting facilities. Efforts are being made to overcome obstacles, namely (1) repairing the server network that is experiencing disruptions, (2) Involving existing employees in training or technical guidance, (3) Adding supporting facilities. Suggestions from the research: (1) reform the system related to optimizing the central network as the organizer of the Electronic Signature policy, (2) increase the number of employees and (3) improve infrastructure facilities.
 Keywords: Electronic Signature, Effectiveness, Family Card.

Living in turbulent times

Abstract Spoken metaphors such as “unstable situation” document a conceptual association between physical instability and difficult situations. Drawing on research in embodied cognition and conceptual metaphor, the present research examined whether people’s somatic experience can influence their attitudes toward the current COVID-19 pandemic. The hypothesis is that inducing a sensorimotor state such as physical instability can activate the associated abstract concepts such as the feelings of instability during a public health crisis. In Experiment 1, participants who sat at a wobbly table and chair believed more in and had greater concern about the coronavirus disease than participants in a stable workstation. Using a different manipulation of physical instability and a more diverse sample, Experiment 2 found that participants who stood on one foot rather than two were more likely to worry about the pandemic. Experiment 3 examined consequential behavior that might follow from respondents’ COVID-19-related attitudes. The results showed that participants who adopted a single-leg stance rather than a double-leg stance donated more money to the coronavirus treatment acceleration program aiming to stabilize the virus situation. Taken together, these findings indicate that seemingly irrelevant physical experiences can skew people’s opinions on the COVID-19 pandemic, exerting potential downstream effects on their actual behavior.

Management Model of Kitab Kuning Reading Acceleration Program at Mambaul Ulum Islamic Boarding School, Bira Timur Sampang

This research was motivated by the researchers' interest in the management of kitab kuning reading acceleration program at the Maktuba Mambaul Ulum Islamic boarding school, East Bira. The management carried out resulted in something extraordinary, where students who were still on average 7-12 years old managed to take part in the acceleration program for mastering the kitab kuning and master a series of other Islamic disciplines in just 2 years. If we relate to psychological theories, this is certainly a remarkable thing, considering that at their age in general they still live in the world of playgroup and education in the family. However, this does not make the management carried out ineffective, in fact this institution is able to create a pleasant learning atmosphere, and the target of this program can be achieved properly. This study focuses on the implementation of the kitab kuning reading acceleration program and its management in the pesantren. This research uses a qualitative approach and the type is descriptive research. As in the qualitative approach in general, the data collection techniques used are interviews, observation, and documentation. Analysis of the data used is by reduction, display, and verification. The research results show; first, the implementation of the acceleration program is by grouping students into 5 to 10 small groups with direct guidance for 24 hours by a musyrif. The two managements of kuning kuning reading acceleration program at the pesantren were carried out effectively and very well through planning, organizing, directing, and supervising carried out by this institution.

Performance Assessment Analysis in Selecting The Best Employees Maintenance Department in PT. PJB UBJOM PLTU Tanjung Awar - Awar with Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) Method

PT. Pembangkit Jawa-Bali (PJB) is a company engaged in the electricity supply service business. PT. PJB also has another business unit, namely the Operation & Maintenance Service Business Unit (UBJOM) which provides operation and maintenance services for power plant units, one of which is PT. PJB UBJOM PLTU Tanjung Awar - Awar. PT. PJB UBJOM PLTU Tanjung Awar - Awar won the trust of PT. PLN to handle the performance of the Operation & Maintenance of power plants for the Energy Diversification Acceleration Program (PPDE) with a capacity of 2 x 350 Mega Watt (MW). PT. PJB UBJOM PLTU Tanjung Awar - Awar consists of 5 departments, namely the Operations Department, the Maintenance Department, the Engineering Department, the Logistics Department and the Finance and Administration Department. In an effort to improve the quality of good human resources, so as to increase the productivity of a company. In order for the quality of employees to be maintained and improved, the company needs to conduct an employee performance appraisal in the form of selecting the best employees where employee performance can be appreciated by the company in order to achieve mutual progress. By using the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) method as a suggestion in the objective performance appraisal so that the rank-ing7 criteria for staff judgments from the highest to the lowest are Discipline with a weighted value of 0.424, then Personality with a weighting of 0.290, Work Results with a value weight of 0.175, and Work Relationships. with a weighted value of 0.111. It was found that the order of staff with the greatest value was Rank 1: Trio Arta, Rank 2: Teguh Indra, Rank 3: Ade Wahyu, and Rank 4: Nizar Setiawan. So that the best staff selected in the Maintenance Department at PT. PJB UBJOM PLTU Tanjung Awar-Awar

Analysis of Benefits of the Irrigation Water Use Improvement Acceleration Program (P3-Tgai) on Improvement of Irrigation Network Infrastructure to the Regional Development at Hutagurgur Village, Regency of the Humbang Hasundutan

The research objective is to analyze the benefits of The Irrigation Water Use Improvement Acceleration Program to improve irrigation network infrastructure, increase functional land area and increase rice productivity and increase community income for regional development in Hutagurgur Village. The location of the study was carried out in Hutagurgur Village with a sample of all P3A Gurgur Indah members as recipients of the program. Research using descriptive methods with a quantitative approach. The results showed that the Irrigation Water Use Acceleration Improvement Program had a positive effect on improving irrigation infrastructure. Evidenced by the SPSS 23 program by increasing the length of the irrigation network significantly influence the increase in the area of functional land area of 8.25 Ha. The increase in functional land has a positive effect on increasing the productivity of paddy fields, which is significantly increased by 498.45 Kg/Ha/MT and in line with the average income of farmers which increased significantly by Rp.5,172,193.42Ha/MT.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: An energy-efficient reconfigurable accelerators in multi-core systems using PULP-NN

Emerging developments in embedded computer systems and applications demand low energy consumption and high performance. Owing to increased demand for low-voltage computing and lowered technology returns, academia and industry are interested primarily in energy-efficient accelerators. Hardware accelerators have the greatest disadvantage that they are not programmable. It can also be misused for a particular task. The number of accelerators in a device can cause scalability problems. Flexibility and scalability issues are present in programmable accelerators. Coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture (CGRA) design, implementation, computer systems integration and compilation for CGRA are the key contributions in this proposed design. First of all in parallel ultra-low-power processing system (PULP), the CGRA-based integrated programmable array (IPA) is implemented. Second, PULP-NN is a coding library that has been developed for the RISC-V cluster with parallel, high–low storage. The key development in PULP-NN is that the latest move towards aggressive quantization of deep neural network inferences which is a collection of kernels which use bytes and sub-byte information types up to INT-1. The library in the proposed procedure utilizes advanced sign handling expansions in the RISC-V PULP processors and in bunch matches, to accomplish ideal energy effectiveness of estimation execution.

Optimizing University Acceleration Programs. The Case of NKUA’s Multistage Model

Purpose: Business accelerators have rapidly emerged as prominent players in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. A key strategic decision in designing acceleration programs is whether to customize or standardize the new venture development program (Cohen et al., 2019). Recognizing a trade-off between customization and standardization, the paper presents a multistage acceleration model aiming to harvest benefits of standardization while keeping several advantages found in tailor-made acceleration programs.

Collaboratory at Columbia: An Aspen Grove of Data Science Education

Many universities recognize the rapidly growing impact of data science in all fields of study and the professions and seek to embed this expertise widely across their educational offerings. There is often broad interest in developing new data science curricula, with some universities even allocating funds toward this purpose. Yet, it is often unclear what resources are needed for effective data science education, and how resources ought to be prioritized. Although university leadership might be aware of a growing number of successful data science acceleration programs and pedagogical models, many of which are either general purpose or specific to a particular discipline, there remains a lack of clarity about how these models might address their own specific needs. This article presents the Collaboratory Program at Columbia University (termed “the Collaboratory”), which is both a set of “data science in context” educational approaches, as well as a meta-model for an accelerator program that allows different institutions to respond flexibly to their own disciplinary heterogeneity in terms of data science educational needs. The novelty of the Collaboratory lies in its crowd-sourcing approach to creating new data science pedagogy and its ability to kindle transdisciplinary collaboration in doing so. By offering seed funding, it fosters proactive efforts to embed data science “in context” into more traditional domains through a cohort of compelling, transdisciplinary, crowd-sourced data science education proposals each year. Collaboratory educational offerings are required to be developed through a partnership between two faculty members, a data scientist and a domain expert from another field, or a larger team with complementary expertise. Over the past 5 years, the Collaboratory has supported the development of a wide spectrum of data science pedagogical models spread across more than 40 academic departments, centers, institutes, and professional schools at Columbia University. As a result, the Collaboratory has to date served the learning needs of more than 4,000 students. Furthermore, it has cultivated a thriving ecosystem that includes a funding mechanism and a community-support structure that all contribute to its agility and success. Here, we offer our experience and best practices in developing and managing the Collaboratory, which, we hope, will contribute to a blueprint for data science education leaders everywhere.

Social Networks and Entrepreneurial Passion: Selection or Contagion?

Entrepreneurial passion is contagious such that social interaction leads to passion convergence. However, do entrepreneurs also select whom they interact with based on passion similarity? The complex interdependencies between social networks and passion remain undertheorized and empirically puzzling. Using a stochastic actor-oriented model (SIENA) and four waves of panel data, we test hypotheses about the co-evolution of social networks and entrepreneurial passion during a 5-months university-based acceleration program. We find that entrepreneurs select social network ties based on similar levels of passion for founding and inventing but that only passion for founding is socially contagious. We discuss theoretical, empirical, and practical implications.