Innovation Competition Research Articles

Indonesian Public Service Innovation Trends: An Analysis Based on Public Service Innovation Competition Top Innovations 2014-2019

In the last few years, Indonesia and many other countries have been increasing their innovations. As an appreciation of the implementation of innovations carried out by Government agencies, in 2014, the Ministry of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform began to hold the Public Service Innovation Competition (KIPP). The purpose of the studies is to describe the trend of public service innovation in 2014-2019 based on the innovators, innovation categories, and sectors. The archival method is used to analyze top public service innovations from the KIPP annual event held by the Ministry of State Apparatus Empowerment and the Bureaucratic Reform Republic of Indonesia in 2014-2019. Furthermore, the innovation data were filtered based on the innovators and focused on innovations from Ministries, Government Institutions, and Regional Governments, while the innovations initiated by state-owned companies were excluded. Finally, the data were analyzed based on three keywords: innovators, innovation categories, and sectors. The results showed that based on innovators, the Provincial Government group is the most innovative agency, followed by the Ministry and the Municipal Government. In terms of innovation category, it was found that technological innovation dominated top public service innovation, followed by process innovation and product/service innovation. Finally, in the sector keywords, it can be seen that the health sector is leading the innovation creation, followed by the agriculture/plantation/livestock sector and the environment and forestry sector.
 Keywords: innovation, public sector, public service

Advancing ‘Net Zero Competition’ in Asia-Pacific under a dynamic era: a comparative study on the carbon neutrality policy toolkit in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong

The net zero strategy has created a global competition for carbon finance innovation, with over 50 countries and regions aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050 or 2060. This paper provides a preliminary comparative study of carbon neutrality policy instruments in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong SAR, China: three critical and distinct economies in the Asia-Pacific region. The study examines policies in six categories that support carbon neutrality and compares them based on political economy and market features. The findings reveal that Japan has a rather diverse policy matrix, while Singapore has made rapid progress in carbon finance in a controversial political economy. Hong Kong’s renewable energy policies use a multifaceted approach that emphasizes both carbon emission reduction and environmental quality improvement. Although Hong Kong aspires to become a centre for green finance, it currently lags behind Singapore in this area. The study sheds light on the development and implementation of emerging policies related to carbon neutrality in Asia-Pacific region.

ТРЕНДЫ ИННОВАЦИОННОГО РАЗВИТИЯ ЭКОНОМИК СТРАН МИРА И ПРИОРИТЕТНЫЕ НАПРАВЛЕНИЯ ДЛЯ РОССИИ

Innovative development is one of the key factors determining the level of competitiveness of all modern states of the world. That is why the use of indicators to assess their innovative potential is becoming a priority task facing the world scientific community. The article discusses the main components that make up the Global Innovation Index (GII) as one of the promising tools for indicative evaluation. Within the framework of this scientific study, the analysis of the regional structure of the largest innovative macroregions of the world was carried out, and the key features of the leading countries that influenced their ranking in 2022 were identified. The authors have made attempts to identify the strengths and weaknesses of Russia's innovation policy, which influenced its dynamics in the GII, and also assessed the poten-tial of innovative development of the subjects of the Russian Federation. Finally, the authors have identified a number of patterns that affect the development of competitive innovation ecosystems.

Restructuring Lessons from the Covid Pandemic: Bail-Out vs. Market Approach

Bail-out, bail-in, or restructuring? In this article, we argue that restructuring has its rightful place in macro crises, such as the Covid pandemic. A policy that primarily focuses on insolvency avoidance and bail-outs is misled as it creates unwanted risk incentives, distorts market selection and resource allocation, and reduces beneficial transformative pressure. As a crisis typically goes hand in hand with new and fundamental developments, the changing environment should be met by competitive innovation. Bail-outs which tend to preserve the status-quo may be justified as part of a comprehensive emergency strategy and to overcome temporary market dysfunction. Such a response strategy, however should always be designed in concert with restructuring options. We propose amendments to the German insolvency and restructuring laws to address the shortcomings of restructuring/insolvency uncovered during the Covid pandemic. The goal is to improve the restructuring/insolvency regime so that it can better deal with the specific challenges of macro crises.

Analysis of Social Acceptance for the Use of Digital Identities

According to a study by the German Federal Printing Office (2022), every European lives with 90 digital identities on average, and the trend is rising. The German government has launched the innovation competition “Digital Identities Showcase” to select and promote identity projects for data security and sovereignty. The funding amount is 50 million EUR to develop software, research practical use cases and implement them by 2024. Of course, this large sum presupposes acceptance for the use of such digital identities, especially against the backdrop of critical opinions from the media and society, as already outlined in a Canadian study. However, there is little academic research on blockchain technology, but almost no article on the use of digital identities based on blockchain technology. This paper conducts a quantitative study on the social acceptance of digital identities using a questionnaire-based survey with 324 German participants on the social acceptance of the use of digital identities. The result of the study is that social acceptance of the use of digital identities is significantly influenced by demographics, citizens’ experience with blockchain products, affinity with financial products and privacy concerns.

Teaching Principles of Medical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Through Hackathons: Case Study and Qualitative Analysis.

Innovation and entrepreneurship training are increasingly recognized as being important in medical education. However, the lack of faculty comfort with the instruction of these concepts as well as limited scholarly recognition for this work has limited the implementation of curricula focused on these skills. Furthermore, this lack of familiarity limits the inclusion of practicing physicians in health care innovation, where their experience is valuable. Hackathons are intense innovation competitions that use gamification principles to increase comfort with creative thinking, problem-solving, and interpersonal collaboration, but they require further exploration in medical innovation. To address this, we aimed to design, implement, and evaluate a health care hackathon with 2 main goals: to improve emergency physician familiarity with the principles of health care innovation and entrepreneurship and to develop innovative solutions to 3 discrete problems facing emergency medicine physicians and patients. We used previously described practices for conducting hackathons to develop and implement our hackathon (HackED!). We partnered with the American College of Emergency Physicians, the Stanford School of Biodesign, and the Institute of Design at Stanford (d.school) to lend institutional support and expertise in health care innovation to our event. We determined a location, time frame, and logistics for the competition and settled on 3 use cases for teams to work on. We planned to explore the learning experience of participants within a pragmatic paradigm and complete an abductive thematic analysis using data from a variety of sources. HackED! took place from October 1-3, 2022. In all, 3 teams developed novel solutions to each of the use cases. Our investigation into the educational experience of participants suggested that the event was valuable and uncovered themes suggesting that the learning experience could be understood within a framework from entrepreneurship education not previously described in relation to hackathons. Health care hackathons appear to be a viable method of increasing physician experience with innovation and entrepreneurship principles and addressing complex problems in health care. Hackathons should be considered as part of educational programs that focus on these concepts.

A New Approach for Agile Teams’ Allocation in Open Innovation Projects

Due to constant change in the marketplace, it can be difficult for companies to secure the material, human, and technological resources necessary for competitive innovation activities. In this sense, and to overcome these constraints, the open innovation model is a quite successful approach, where the sharing of resources among companies allows the formation of an innovation ecosystem. However, the execution time of these projects can be negatively affected if the performance of each work team is not taken into account. In this work, the application of the agile approach in open innovation projects is proposed as a way to reduce the uncertainty both in the execution time of the projects and in the respective implementation costs. In this sense, a methodology for optimal team assignment for agile teams in open innovation projects according to their performance on each project task is developed to determine the optimal team assignment that leads to the shortest project execution time. This methodology will support decision making in the project management of open innovation projects, especially in the selection of the internal and external work teams that will participate in a given innovation project. The application of the proposed methodology is illustrated with an example describing and analyzing the different steps of its application. The results show that with the proposed methodology it is possible to take into account the performance of each team when calculating the project execution time and that the project execution time varies depending on the assignment of the agile teams to the project tasks. It is also shown that it is possible to determine the optimal assignment with the shortest project execution time.

Simulating rumor spreading and rebuttal strategy with rebuttal forgetting: An agent-based modeling approach

Rumor is a typical social psychological phenomenon, and forgetting is a universal psychological trait. Exploring the role of forgetting will improve the understanding of rumor spreading and its control. Based on the classical SIR epidemic framework, the conceptual model of rumor spreading and rebuttal strategy is proposed with consideration of forgetting, and the mathematical model at the individual level is constructed from a competitive innovation diffusion perspective. A Java-based Agent-based Modeling approach is adopted to conduct comprehensive simulation experiments. Results indicate that both rebuttal strategy and rebuttal forgetting would affect the process and the result of rumor spreading and control, and complex interactions exist among different factors. Although the influence of control strategy is dominant in most cases, more active control might be not optimal in extreme cases because of the moderation of forgetting, the nonlinearity of influence increases the control challenge.

The Impact of Team Learning Climate on Innovation Performance - Mediating role of knowledge integration capability.

To address the fierce competition for corporate innovation in the digital economy, this study introduces knowledge integration capability as a mediating variable in light of social information processing theory, and explores the mechanism of team learning climate on innovation performance. Data were collected from a sample of 184 team members for statistical analysis, and Statistical methods such as descriptive statistical analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis were used to verify the study hypotheses through SPSS and Amos software, and the results showed that: (1) Team learning climate has a significant positive effect on knowledge integration capability. (2) Team learning climate has a significant positive effect on innovation performance. (3) Knowledge integration capability has a significant positive effect on innovation performance. (4) Knowledge integration capability partially mediates the role between team learning climate and innovation performance. The results proved the perspective of knowledge integration capability for the mechanism of team learning climate on innovation performance from the perspective of knowledge integration capability, and provided theoretical references for creating a learning climate in companies to promote members' knowledge learning and enhance innovation performance.

The Geoeconomics of Trade Infrastructure and the Innovation Competition between China and the US

The Geoeconomics of Trade Infrastructure and the Innovation Competition between China and the US

On the Evaluation Scheme for Large Scale Innovation Competition

Large-scale innovation contests are becoming increasingly popular globally, with many innovators and enterprises actively participating. Work allocation optimization and fair judging are two significant concerns in innovation contests. This academic paper aims to recommend an optimized "cross-assignment" program by leveraging the optimal objective function method to improve the comparability of scores given by various judges. We conducted data-based descriptive statistical analysis and concluded that the two-stage and weighted evaluation schemes are more beneficial than the traditional judging scheme. Nonetheless, there are still some shortcomings that require addressing. To enhance fairness, we propose an improved twostage evaluation scheme. In the first stage, we normalize the scores with a normal distribution. In the second stage of the process, we implement a system utilizing the Borda sorting technique to categorize submissions into five distinct groups for judges to evaluate based on their perceptions. We also detail a method for weighting tied scores to determine the final rankings. Testing indicates that this approach yields a Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG) of 0.8667, implying greater fairness and precision in the assessment of submissions.

Imitative innovation or independent innovation strategic choice of emerging economies in non-cooperative innovation competition

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>The importance of knowledge and technology is self-evident, especially the core technology of key nodes in the industrial chain, which will change the country's status in the supply chain, and even the national economic security. This scenario has led to a global non-cooperative innovation competition. In order to ensure the safety of local industrial chain and shorten the technological distance with developed countries, emerging economies can adopt imitative innovation by observing the core technologies from developed countries, or choose independent innovation strategy. How should emerging economies make the choice? We analyze this problem by establishing a dynamic non-cooperative technology development model. The research results show that when the innovation capacity gap between emerging economies and developed regions is large, the choice of imitation strategy is highly necessary. And when the gap is small, the independent innovation strategy can be selected. In addition, due to the existence of both domestic and foreign markets, developed countries can adopt strict policies to restrict the sale of products containing core technologies to overseas markets to limit the spillover of important technologies. We also consider the impact of policies that limit technology spillovers and show the impact of local market capacity in emerging economies.</p>

THE INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT OF COMPETITIVENESS AMONG VILLAGEOWNED ENTERPRISES AGENCY (VOEA) IN THE PROVINCE OF WEST JAVA, INDONESIA

The objective of this study is to examine the level of competitiveness exhibited by the Village Owned Enterprise Agency (VOEA) in the province of West Java, located in Indonesia. The current state of affairs is hindered by the intricate nature of the issues at hand and the deficiencies of the VOEA that are presently underway. In West Java, for instance, a significant portion of the 2,921-unit VOEA, specifically 85%, are inoperative. Similarly, in Indonesia as a whole, out of the total 45,549-unit VOEAs established, only 30% remain functional due to their inability to effectively compete. Hence, the purpose of this study is to construct a model for enhancing the competitive innovation of the Village Owned Enterprise Agency (VOEA) in the province of West Java, as well as in Indonesia as a whole. The results of this study demonstrate that equity crowdfunding serves as a potent mechanism for promoting alternative financing and facilitating new avenues of financial access for VOEA. Moreover, it acts as a catalyst for entrepreneurship and innovation, fostering sustained competitiveness in the execution of VOEA business operations in the region of West Java, Indonesia.

Dynamic Linkage(s) between Financial Innovation and Efficiency of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria

The emergence of new technologies, changing customer expectations, and regulatory imperatives, among others, have driven the financial industry into an era where "digital innovations" thrive, culminating in the emergence and growth of innovative products such as agency banking, mobile/internet banking, mobile money, unstructured supplementary service data (USSD), just to name a few. There is increased customers' reliance on e-channels. This has further established the need for banks to engage in financial innovation for relevance, competitiveness, efficiency and growth. This study, therefore, examines the dynamic linkage(s) between financial innovation and the efficiency of deposit money banks (DMBs) in Nigeria. The population of the study comprises the 13 listed DMBs in Nigeria as of 31 December 2021, and these serve as the sample size. The period covered is 48 months -2016 and 2019. Data were collected from the bank's annual reports and Apex bank's statistical bulletin. Descriptive statistics, correlation and autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) cointegration techniques were used for data analyses. The efficiency of DMBs was estimated using data envelopment analysis (DEA). Findings reveal that financial innovation has forward and backwards dynamic linkages with the efficiency of DMBs in Nigeria.

Sustainability concerns in EU merger control: from output-maximising to polycentric innovation competition

Abstract This article examines whether sustainability concerns play and should play any role in EU merger control. While competition authorities have commenced exploring pathways to excuse prima facie anticompetitive mergers on sustainability grounds, little progress has been made in setting out whether and under which conditions mergers that adversely affect sustainability parameters can be found anticompetitive. Under the EU merger control regime, the adverse effects of mergers on sustainability are only cognizable as innovation-related issues, as recently evidenced in Dow/Dupont and Bayer/Monsanto. In these cases, the Commission pioneered a novel approach aimed at predicting the impact of a merger not only on prices but also on innovation competition. This theory of harm, although a welcome improvement to the current framework of merger analysis, fails to accommodate all competition-relevant sustainability concerns because of its exclusive focus on innovation capabilities, efforts, and output. On this basis, we argue that innovation competition should not be understood only as an output-maximizing device but also as a polycentric process under which independent decision-makers pursue various innovation paths. Such an approach gives prominence to the diversity, quality, and direction of innovation and constitutes an alternative to the predominant output-centred understanding of innovation. To operationalize this notion of innovation competition as a polycentric process we explore four pathways: adopting quality-related and sustainability-sensitive innovation metrics; using indicators of industry-wide structural effects; endorsing a structural filter; and protecting nascent competitors. Adding such an approach to the existing analytical framework would, arguably, enable the Commission to deal with all sustainability concerns related to the notion of innovation competition.

Digital Financial Inclusion to Corporation Value: The Mediating Effect of Ambidextrous Innovation

Corporate innovation can be subdivided, according to its approach and novelty, into exploitative innovation and exploratory innovation, i.e., ambidextrous innovation. Defined as actions to promote financial inclusion through digital financial services, digital financial inclusion brings new opportunities for the implementation of corporate innovation projects and the improvement of corporation value. Based on the annual reports (2012–2020) released by 1604 listed SMEs in China and the index of digital financial inclusion from Peking University, this paper explores the way that digital financial inclusion affects the corporation value of SMEs, with some moderating factors such as the financial flexibility, corporate social responsibility and product market competition in ambidextrous innovation. The study shows, in SMEs: (1) digital financial inclusion has a significant positive impact on exploitative innovation, but has less effect on exploratory innovation with a time lag; (2) ambidextrous innovation plays a partial intermediary role in the effect of digital financial inclusion on corporation value; (3) financial flexibility of the enterprise positively moderates the relationship between digital financial inclusion and corporate value. In the short term, corporate social responsibility negatively moderates the relationship between digital financial inclusion and corporate value; however, in the long term, it does contribute to the growth of corporate value. (4) Product market competition positively moderates the relationship between digital financial inclusion and exploitative innovation, but does not positively moderate the relationship between digital financial inclusion and exploratory innovation.

INOVASI PELAYANAN PUBLIK “HADOHOP VIA DARING” DI DINAS KEPENDUDUKAN DAN PENCATATAN SIPIL KABUPATEN KATINGAN SELAMA PANDEMI COVID-19

This research was conducted at the Department of Population and Civil Registration of Katingan Regency. The purpose of this study was to determine the innovation of Hadohop Via Daring public services at the Katingan Regency Population and Civil Registration Service during the covid-19 pandemic and to determine the inhibiting factors in public service innovation. Qualitative research method with a descriptive approach. Informants in this study are the service and the community who carry out public services for Hadohop Via Daring innovation. The results of this study indicate that the innovation of the Hadohop Via Daring service can be said to be in accordance with the 5 (five) innovation criteria in PERMENPAN-RB No. 3 of 2018 concerning Public Service Innovation Competitions in Ministries/Agencies, Regional Governments, State-Owned Enterprises, and Regional Owned Enterprises, namely: New, Effective, Useful, Transfer Or Replication, And Sustainable. the community. (2). indicators implement the strategy, the Therefore, it can be concluded that the application of Hadohop Via Daring public service innovation has innovation novelty that is effective, beneficial for agencies and the community and innovation is carried out in a sustainable manner. By having 2 (two) inhibiting factors according to Geoff Mulgan & David Albury : Technology exists, but culture and organizational structure are hampered and there is no incentive or reward to increase innovation.

Transformasi dan Pengolahan Data Pelaporan Bank Umum Menggunakan Teknik Data Virtualisasi

The development of data technology and its utilization is very fast, resulting in humans ’ competi tion for innovat ion in the data that can be more easily processed in such a way as to meet user ’s expectations. Data integration is an important aspect to make data and information are connected one and an other. Weaknesses that often arise from the traditional -way of ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) are the complexity of connections from multiple sources, as well as the dependence on temporary data storage to allow data to flow from the source Database to the target Database. The application of data virtualization can provide the right solution to integrate data more effectively and more efficient ly than the use of ETL methods in general. The purpose of this research is that Data Virtualization can provide features and renewable technology, making it easier for users to generate daily or monthly bank reports faster in accordance with the expectations and provisions in the Bank Indonesia (BI) regulations. Therefore, in the process of this research, R&D (Research and Development) is still considered the most appropriate method . T he results of this research are solutions or commercial bank ’ s data processing systems that can issue the result information that will be daily / monthly report ed by the users to Bank Indonesia.

A multi-criteria approach to the comparative analysis of the global innovation index on the example of the Western Balkan countries

Abstract Innovation is crucial for the competitiveness of countries in the global market. Countries oriented to progress must invest in innovative activities. Using the example of the Western Balkan countries, this study investigated their innovative competitiveness. The indicators of the Global Innovation Index (GII) were used for the years 2019, 2020, and 2021. A multi-criteria approach was based on the innovative SMART approach. The weights of the criteria were determined using the CRITIC (criteria importance through intercriteria correlation) method, while the CRADIS (compromise ranking of alternatives from distance to ideal solution) method ranked the Western Balkan countries according to their innovative characteristics. The results showed that Montenegro had the best innovation indicators, followed by Serbia, while Albania had the worst indicators. This research showed an innovative approach of using four normalizations, and the advantages of these normalizations were used to contribute to stabilization in multi-criteria decision-making.

Thinking on the Edge of Globalism. Are there Prospects for Educational and Economic Reforms in Ukraine?

The article reveals the essential features and conditions of the long-term process of development of competitive innovation economy - knowledge economy on the example of Ukraine, where the dialogue of late postmodernism and early post-industrialism create special regional conditions. The article characterizes education as not just a form of social consciousness and practice, but as a social and cultural engine and simultaneously marker of civilization development level; considers higher education system from the point of view of society request to form specialists of high qualification level and as a result powerful factor of regional economic growth; offers the directions of Ukraine higher education reforming, which still has signs of late postmodernism. The authors of this article have proved that the synergy of the economic and educational-scientific spheres is capable of changing the global laws of society's existence and returning the course of history to a truly humanistic, technological and divinely attentive course. The development of innovative activities, the introduction of new technologies, which in the long term to overcome the negative trends, primarily related to the need for structural reform of the educational sector in Ukraine and other regions, which are attractors of world change. In particular, cardinal changes require higher education as the most important resource potential that determines the direction of sustainable economic development.