Academia Cooperation Research Articles

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS IN E-EXPORT: TURKIYE ANALYSIS

Purpose- The purpose of this study is to analyzes will be made about how artificial intelligence applications in e-export and how it will affect Turkey's export capacity and productivity with the innovations it will bring in the context of technology. It is researched how e-export can play a more active role with artificial intelligence in the context of public, private sector and individuals. Methodology- The methodology of the study will be analyzed through literature review and secondary data. Based on the analysis, grouping (topic and keywords) clustering will be emphasized and interpreted. The study was made in the form of compilation from different sources. Findings- The analysis reveals that the secondary data analysis, based on artificial intelligence and big data are evaluated, the countries with which Turkey cooperates in e-export are European, Asian and African countries. It is seen that the transactions made with these countries based on artificial intelligence, they can be considered as subjects that need to be studied because they are mostly new technologies. When the subject of e-export and artificial intelligence is examined by countries, its place and strategic importance in international trade can be seen. This situation occupies an important place especially in terms of Turkey's e-export. Conclusion- Based upon the analysis findings it may be concluded that It has been seen that the cooperation of academia and private sector is important in the applications of artificial intelligence in e-export, especially in applications in Turkey. Turkey's e-export performance is contributed by public policies and especially by the systems developed by the Ministry of Commerce to make exporters easier and more efficient transactions by giving importance to this area. As a result of these practices, it is aimed that there will be an increase in Turkey's total export figures and significant positive effects on the current account deficit and the ratio of imports to exports. The increase in the use of artificial intelligence in e-export accelerates efficiency and transactions. In the study, it is stated that the cooperation between the public and private sector and artificial intelligence applications in e-export have a high importance in Turkey. Keywords: E-export, Artificial Intelligence, Easy Export Platform, Ministry of Commerce, Secondary Data Analysis JEL Codes: A10, B22, F10

On Australia’s Cyber and Critical Technology International Engagement Strategy Towards 6G

In response to the call by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for submissions on the development of Australia’s Cyber and Critical Technology International Engagement Strategy, this paper reviews the most critical technologies; related risks and opportunities; best practices, policies and security frameworks in other countries; relevant government, industry, civil society and academia cooperation initiatives; and proposes how Australia may became a leader in the global Cyberspace. To realise this vision, Australia should play a major role among selected international organizations; support the continuous evolution of critical technologies; adopt a proper technology security assurance scheme; and enforce a certification and accreditation process – against a predetermined set of appropriate security standards and policies – for security authorisation in Australia. This could be achieved with the formulation and implementation of an Australia’s defence-in-depth strategy, augmented by a Zero-Trust model, which enhances security for untrusted domains, and within trusted domains, and meets the baseline requirements of cyber security for the Internet of Things.

Connecting the Local and the Global: the Association for Taiwan Literature

The Association for Taiwan Literature was founded in 2016 as a non-profit association by researchers and students from institutions dedicated to Taiwan literature in Taiwan. The aims and objectives of the association are to promote research, teaching, creative writing, translations, and international collaboration related to Taiwan literature. This report will demonstrate and evaluate multiple strategies and projects adopted by the association, including the development of intellectual and academic communities, industry–academia cooperation, the Toward Taiwan ‘New’ Literature series, and global Taiwan studies to create a sustainable community of Taiwan literature studies working outside of regular academic channels to build a collaborative network in Taiwan and beyond.

Isolation and characterization of secondary metabolites from Gaultheria tenuifolia berries.

Gaultheria berries (Ericaceae) are consumed as food or used in folk medicine throughout the world. In the present study, Gaultheria tenuifolia berries were studied to describe their polyphenol and iridoid composition, aroma volatiles, and cytoprotective effects. In total, 14 metabolites were isolated using a combination of countercurrent chromatography and Sephadex LH-20, namely, cyanidin-3-O-β-galactoside, cyanidin-3-O-β-arabinoside, 3-O-caffeoylquinic acid, 5-O-caffeoylshikimic acid, quercetin, quercetin-3-O-β-glucuronide, quercetin-3-O-β-rutinoside, quercetin-3-O-β-glucoside, quercetin-3-O-β-arabinoside, quercetin-3-O-β-rhamnoside, 6α-hydroxydihydromonotropein-10-trans-cinnamate, monotropein-10-trans-cinnamate, and an (epi)-catechin dimer and trimer. Other flavan-3-ols, proanthocyanidins, and iridoids were tentatively identified by spectroscopic and spectrometric means in the fruit extracts. The tentative volatile organic compound characterization pointed to methyl salicylate as responsible for the aroma of this species. The extracts showed significant cytoprotective effects in an oxidative stress model in human gastric epithelial cells. This is the first report on the isolation, characterization, and potential biological activity of secondary metabolites from G. tenuifolia berries and insights on its possible application as a functional food. PRACTICAL APPLICATION: Berries are desirable fruit species because of their phytochemical composition and pleasant taste. Gaultheria berries are special due to their high content of iridoids and the presence of salicylic acid derivatives. Aroma of native berries is relevant for the development of new products reflecting the local identity and use of fruits. The present work involves cooperation of academia and industry on the constituents of the native products. The results provided in this article could be useful for the introduction of this species in the food and nutraceutical industries.

Synergistic interaction of education, science, and industry

Economic and social development of a country rely on advanced science and technology, skilled, educated workforce, extensive growth of innovation and population density. The process of innovation creation can be long and winding and should take into account the needs of technological development and definitely bring benefits to business. The concept of a science park has not been new. The United States of America were pioneers who in early 1950s suggested a brand new model for bridging the gap between academia and industry. Nowadays developed countries employ that model, though its objectives, funds, inputs and outcomes may vary. This paper will focus of the issue of real interaction of institutions of education, science and industry and will raise a number of controversial issues in the correction of the vector for socio-economic modernization. The authors analyzed a set of legislation acts on regulating the cooperation of academia and business. The paper gives a graphical model of reciprocity of institutions of education, science, and industry taking into account the interests of public authorities, and offers a set of additional indicators of evaluation of the efficiency of functioning of an innovation structure in the country (region).

ASPHER V4 Working Group supports the road map for professionalising the public health workforce

Abstract Background The ASPHER V4 Working Group (WG) was established in 2016 and officially launched during the 9th European Public Health Conference in Vienna. One of the key objectives of the WG is to strengthen public health capacity development in V4 countries. The WG supports the implementation of the recently reviewed European Action Plan for Strengthening Public Health Capacities (EAP). The EAP’s review highlighted the need to focus further action on four enabling Essential Public Health Functions (EPHOs) including human resources for public health. This is why the WG is heavily involved in the recent development of a new Road map for professionalising the public health workforce, one of the products of the recently established Coalition of Partners (CoP) that was convened by the WHO Regional Office for Europe in close cooperation with ASPHER and Maastricht University. Objectives Supporting the WHO CoP with a focus on development and further implementation of a new Road map for professionalising public health workforce in V4 countries. Using a new rapid assessment tool to evaluate the state of the public health profession in the Czech Republic. Sharing the report on the current state of public health professions in the Czech Republic with the WG and using it as a comparison of the current state in all V4 countries. Results Key strengths and weaknesses of the first rapid assessment of the current state of the public health profession in the Czech Republic are presented. Key actions are proposed for the WG: a) Preparation of a grant proposal to the International V4 Fund and b) Continuing active involvement in CoP activities. Conclusions The rapid assessment tool for evaluating the state of the public health profession was successfully implemented in the Czech Republic with the close cooperation of academia, researchers, policy makers and practitioners. The summary confirms that further work on the professionalization of the public health workforce is needed. Key messages ASPHER V4 WG is strongly involved in the development of a new road map for professionalising the public health workforce, coordinated by the WHO CoP, ASPHER and Maastricht University. Summary of the first rapid assessment of the current state of the public health profession in the Czech Republic confirms the importance of further action in this area of work.

How Resources of Universities influence Industry Cooperation

In Korea, cooperation between university and company is mainly encouraged by government policy as the Triple Helix’s statist model. Since 2003, the government started a variety of university financial support program, and in 2014, it reached to the point that 31 ministries conducted 408 programs in total. Most projects focused on training human resources and supporting Research and development, which is considered as the core function of universities, but some of the projects are designed to support the industry–academia cooperation. For instance, the Ministry of Education ran ‘Leaders in University and Industry Cooperation (LINC)’ program. LINC is a follow-up project of Human Resources Development for the Leading Industries, Industry–Academia Cooperation-oriented University, and Focal Point Research program. Accordingly, it aimed to create university–industry cooperative models, and nurture talents based on regional economy’s demand. The program provided approximately $230M per year for over 50 universities across the country. It was one of the highly influential grant programs considering the fact that there are about 200 universities nationwide and an annual budget of university is $900 billion on average. In this context, this study is to assess the influence of resources of universities capacity on the achievement of university–industry cooperation and explore whether a government-initiated policy has a significant effect using data from government information disclosure system on education.

Developing students’ knowledge, skills andsocial competences in international marketing research– cooperation of academia and business

IntroductionIn regard to the managerial courses there appears a need to include students in real-life managerial processes on the grounds of cooperation between the university and business practice. Only students' participation in actual managerial processes, directed at increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of operating on the international market, will enable them to gather the necessary wealth of experience. Gathering such experience allows students to consolidate the acquired knowledge, improve the skills and shape social competences.The aim of this paper is to present how students' knowledge, skills and social competences in regard to marketing research are developed within the international business curriculum. Furthermore the aim is to indicate the necessity to apply in the educational process diverse teaching methods oriented at building knowledge, skills and social competences expected by future employees.In the theoretical part of the paper determinants for market decision making by companies, especially those operating in the global market, are presented. Possessing up-to-date knowledge about the market in global scale based on marketing research results is indicated as valid managerial competence. Furthermore, institutional and systemic barriers that are faced by higher education institutions in the CEE region in the process of teaching business programs are discussed.The next part of the paper discusses the meaning of developing knowledge, skills and social competences in the scope of international marketing research among International Business graduates. With information being the key ingredient in developing successful international marketing strategies these areas seem to be a necessary condition to understand and take advantage of the changes occurring in the global environment. Hence the international marketing research course has been characterized, the syllabus of the course being oriented at filling the identified needs of diagnosing and analyzing global environment.The further parts of the paper discuss teaching methods and techniques applied within the course oriented at providing the students with most timely knowledge as well as skills and competences useful when operating on the global market. The exemplification of the teaching routines in the scope of international marketing research in the paper is a course offered by the University of Economics in Katowice within the International Business (IB) degree program. The whole program as well as the international marketing research syllabus has been inspired by the best standards and teaching routines elaborated in higher education institutions offering IB studies all over the world. This is why the challenges and barriers presented in the text may apply to teaching IB in a wider context.1.Theoretical backgroundThe 2011 report prepared by IBM, based on the opinions of more than 1700 marketing directors from all over the world (64 countries) representing 19 economy sectors indicated four key determinants for market decision making by companies [From stretched... 2011]:- exponential growth of data,- growing role of social media,- development of marketing channels and instruments,- change in the demographic structure of the clients.Companies face the challenge of gathering large amounts of information and its quick analysis. It is particularly important for the internationalized firms operating in rapidly changing international conditions, among others the evolution of clients' demographic structure. New markets are created in China and India as a result of increasing significance of younger generations with their specific consumption models and ways of company information search. In the USA and Western Europe companies face the necessity to adapt their offer the aging society of the population boom in the 1970s and 1980s. The changes occur also on the economic level and concern purchasing potential of the dynamically developing Asian countries. …

A Challenge to Industry--Academia Cooperation Finding New Ways for Coordinator Development

A Challenge to Industry--Academia Cooperation Finding New Ways for Coordinator Development

Specificity of Transfer in Basic and Applied Perceptual-Motor Tasks

We conducted research on transfer of skills using basic stimulus-response compatibility tasks and applied tasks requiring control of a hydraulic excavator simulator. The basic tasks show rapid acquisition of practiced spatial mappings, for which transfer is specific to the procedures used in training. The applied tasks show transfer across alternative control configurations that maintain practiced spatial mappings, as well as from part to whole practice. Transfer from simulated to real equipment also seems to occur; however, studies involving cooperation of academia and industry are needed to provide more definitive evidence on this question.

The ECHORD project proposals analysis – Research profiles, collaboration patterns and research topic trends

This paper investigates the research profiles, collaboration patterns and research topic trends which can be identified in the proposals submitted to the ECHORD (European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development) FP7 project. On a country level, clusters were identified and characterized by patterns of proposal production per inhabitant, score and international cooperation. Belgium and Sweden constitute a cluster characterized by high proposal production, with very high scores and extensive international collaboration. Belgium also excels from another cluster analysis, being as the only country where 100% of proposals involve industry–academia cooperation and obtain scores above 10. Other findings show that single partner proposals have significantly lower quality than multi-partner proposals but, on the other hand, the number of countries involved shows no influence on the quality of the proposals. Despite the high number of industrial participants present on the proposals, it is observed that they play secondary roles in the proposals, with a very low number projects leaded by companies. Also, it is observed that partnerships between research institutions (non-universities) are the most successful. Concerning topics of the proposals, the technology human–robot interface and the product vision robot for small-scale manufacturing are the most significant. Finally, the paper shows clusters of institutions extracted from the giant network of relations obtained from the ECHORD set of proposals.

Design and prototyping of an E1 Drop_Insert soft core

The paper describes the design and prototyping of a telecommunication intellectual property soft core developed in the scope of an industry–academia co-operation. The soft core allows the manipulation of E1 2048 kHz 32-channel carrier information. It inserts/removes data into/from an E1 frame and multiframe structures. The soft core was fully described in VHDL, functionally validated by simulation, prototyped in FPGA platforms and certified using E1 testers. The main use of the developed soft core in the implementation of data communication equipment is to allow multiple users to share a common E1 carrier with a flexible scheme for bandwidth allocation. The main contribution of the paper is a reusable hardware module that increases performance and reduces latency of the data treatment when compared to existing commercial solutions.

Proven skills: the new yardstick for schools

Under its new rules, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology's (ABET) Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC 2000) will focus on the results of an engineering education, rather than on the curriculum. As of September 2001, when the document becomes mandatory, EC 2000 will emphasize instead the learned abilities an engineer should possess upon entering into professional practice. With this simple, yet radical, change in focus from input to outcome, EC 2000 aims to get faculties to overhaul their teaching methods and curricula. The criteria are even sparking international educational reform. Many non-US institutions want their programs awarded the status of "substantial equivalency" to US programs, so their graduates can more realistically aspire to jobs anywhere in the world. In formulating the novel criteria, ABET, a nonprofit organization, based in Baltimore, Md., did not go it alone. It had the cooperation of academia, industry, and 29 professional engineering societies, including the IEEE.

IBS Pannonian Basin project: a review of the main results and their bearings on hydrocarbon exploration

Abstract The IBS Pannonian Basin project presents a good example of fruitful joint activity between Hungarian and other European scientists, and beneficial co-operation of academia and the petroleum industry. This allowed us to achieve significant progress in the understanding of the structure, tectonic evolution, stratigraphic features and hydrocarbon generation in the Pannonian Basin. The Pannonian region has been an integral part of the Alpine belt, and it reveals the complexity of orogenic evolution. Continental to oceanic rifting, followed by convergence, subduction and continental collision shaped the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic substrata of the region. Subsequently, two periods of basin formation (Late Cretaceous and Palaeogene) occurred, most probably in compressional setting. From the earliest Miocene large scale lateral displacement and block rotation took place in the internal domain of the orogen, together with the formation of the Pannonian Basin. This has been characterized by lithospheric extension, however, interrupted by compressional events. The modern Pannonian Basin is in an initial phase of positive structural inversion. All of these tectonic events had significant impacts on the formation and the economic value of the various petroleum systems in the area.