Demand For Innovation Research Articles

TOOLKIT FOR MANAGING JOINT COOPERATIVE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN WARTIME SETTINGS

The article presents the research finding in the area of building an integration framework for managing cooperative institutions of higher education in wartime settings. It is emphasized that such transformation has been underpinned in the first place by the demand for innovations by the national economy and active financing of innovative projects. Given that attaining the above objectives in developed economies is of paramount significance, no wonder the institutions from such countries as the USA, Great Britain, Switzerland, China and Singapore are among the top most ranked universities in the world. However, the QS World University Rankings for 2021 features eleven Ukrainian universities. And although their positions range from 401 to 700 among the 959 top world universities, currently, this sample can be considered a tremendous success of domestic institutions of higher education. It is observed that in recent years, higher education institutions all over the world trying to increase their own competitiveness has been quite active in building and supporting cooperative links to develop global competitiveness and ensure their entry into the international market. It is argued that among the benefits of cooperation of higher education institutions in wartime is its strong focus on the recipient of educational services, that is, shifting the emphasis from supply to demand, primarily to meet the real customers’ needs. It is emphasized that the integrated cooperation of higher education institutions greatly contributes to attaining a wide range of various educational goals, in particular, the pursuit of personal training, professional and cultural development, gaining new knowledge, achieving economic goals along with attaining social and the overall synergistic effects.

Linking job crafting, innovation performance, and career satisfaction: The mediating role of work engagement.

The demand for innovation and satisfaction is increasing rapidly due to technological advancement and the fast-changing business environment. The purpose of this article is to investigate how job crafting augments work outputs (i.e., innovation performance and career satisfaction) through work engagement. Data were collected from 477 workers working in the Pakistan manufacturing sector. A structural equation modeling technique was used to investigate the mediation model. Job crafting has a direct and indirect association with innovation performance and career satisfaction - via employees' work engagement. Additionally, the mediating impact was stronger for innovation performance than for career satisfaction. The findings advocate that managers should pay attention to employees' job crafting to improve employees' work engagement in manufacturing organizations. To improve employees' innovation performance and career satisfaction via work engagement, it is important to improve organization-wide job crafting in traditional manufacturing organizations. Strategic and managerial actions related to job crafting might boost employees' engagement in the organization that environments provide incessantly better outcomes. By linking job crafting and work engagement to their attitude towards career satisfaction and innovation performance in Pakistani manufacturing firms, this study adds a new dimension to the study of Pakistani manufacturing employees and typically to the best practices in career debates. This knowledge is important and unique because it accentuates that in addition to work engagement, which focuses primarily on employee growth in the organization, job crafting should also be given equal importance to advance manufacturing employees' outcomes.

Conceptualizing cognitive and behavioral elements of individual’s creativity and innovation: systematic literature review

The topic of individual creativity and innovation is important in today’s world because companies and organizations strive for development in every possible way. Despite such demand for creativity and innovation, one definition does not exist for either creativity nor innovation that is commonly accepted among academics or people that work in the industry. This systematic literature review attempted to close this gap by looking at literature from different disciplines related to neuropsychology and management to highlight the literature conceptualizing individual creativity and innovation and delineating the constructs themselves. Apart from that, the factors that underlie individual creativity and innovation are unknown and when research has attempted to investigate these concepts, it has focused on the constructs from a singular viewpoint, which does not provide a full framework for such multifaceted concepts. To address this second gap in the literature, this review attempted to identify individual behavioral and cognitive factors embedded within creativity and innovation processes.

Analyses of Sustainable Development of Cultural and Creative Parks: A Pilot Study Based on the Approach of CiteSpace Knowledge Mapping

The rapid expansion of the cultural industry and the escalating demand for innovation have led to a growing attention on the sustainable development of cultural and creative parks. This study aims to provide a comprehensive review and prospectus of the literature on the sustainable development of these parks using CiteSpace knowledge mapping. We analyzed 662 publications from 2012 to 2023 in the Web of Science database using bibliometric methods, such as descriptive statistical analysis, network analysis, and co-citation analysis. Our findings indicate that research hotspots in the sustainable development of cultural and creative parks focus on cultural ecosystems, environmental conservation, cultural landscapes, creative tourism, park management, and urban renewal. Three primary research themes emerged: ecological service systems, assessment models, and multidimensional value. We propose five future prospects: (1) diversifying sustainable development strategies; (2) coordinating development with urban, regional, and global sustainable development goals; (3) enhancing interdisciplinary research; (4) deepening stakeholder participation; and (5) improving the evaluation index system for sustainable development. This study offers a systematic guiding framework for constructing multidimensional value for the sustainable development of cultural and creative parks, providing valuable insights for future theoretical and practical research.

The New Paradigm for Social Studies Learning in Junior High Schools

A new paradigm in social studies education needs to be implemented as an effort to enhance the quality of the educational process and meet the evolving societal demands for education. Consequently, innovations in social studies education can be effectively carried out when guided by the results of evaluations and research in the field of social studies education. Learning can be conducted within collaborative study groups, emphasizing group-based learning. Until now, this approach has not been intentionally developed within the instructional process, hence presenting a challenge and a demand for educational innovation. Once implemented, it will be capable of addressing the shortcomings of the instructional methods that have been applied in educational institutions.

Bank accounts, bank concentration and mobile money innovations

The present study investigates how increasing bank accounts and bank concentration affect mobile money innovations in 148 countries. It builds on scholarly and policy concerns in the literature that increasing bank accounts may not be having the desired effects on financial inclusion on the one hand and on the other, that bank concentration which is a proxy for market power is a relevant mobile money innovation demand factor. The empirical evidence is based on Tobit regressions. From the findings, it is apparent that boosting bank accounts is positively related to the three mobile money innovations (i.e. mobile bank accounts and the mobile phone used to send money). Moreover, some critical levels of bank account penetration require complementary policies in order to maintain the positive relationship between boosting bank accounts and positive outcomes in terms of money mobile innovations. Conversely, financial inclusion in terms of the three mobile money innovations is not significantly apparent upon enhancing bank concentration. Policy implications are discussed in the light of the provided thresholds for complementary policies.

Visualization analysis of research hotspots and frontiers on factors influencing urban green innovation—Based on CiteSpace knowledge map

With the increasing call for sustainable development, cities’ demand for green innovation has also been growing. However, relatively little research summarizes the influencing factors of urban green innovation. In this study, we conducted a visual analysis of 1193 research articles on green innovation in cities from the Web of Science core database using bibliometrics and visualization analysis. By analyzing co-occurrence, co-citation, and high-frequency keywords in the literature, we explored the current research status and development trends of influencing factors of urban green innovation and summarized the research in this field. The study found that collaboration among authors and institutions in this field needs to be strengthened to a certain extent. In addition, the study identified the research hotspots and frontiers in the field of urban green innovation, including “management”, “diffusion”, “smart city”, “indicator”, “sustainable city”, “governance”, and “environmental regulation”. Among them, “management”, “governance”, “indicator”, and “internet” are the research frontiers in this field, which are expected to have profound impacts on the future development of urban green innovation. The co-citation analysis results found that China has the highest research output in this field, followed by the United States, England, Australia, and Italy. In conclusion, this study uses CiteSpace software to identify important influencing factors and development trends of urban green innovation. Urban green innovation has gradually become a norm for social and collective behavior in the process of concretization, interdisciplinary development, and technological innovation. These findings have important reference value for promoting research and practice of urban green innovation.

Robotics in Plastic Surgery: It's Here.

Although robotic surgery has been routinely established in other surgical disciplines, robotic technologies have been less readily adopted in plastic surgery. Despite a strong demand for innovation and cutting-edge technology in plastic surgery, most reconstructive procedures, including microsurgery, have continued to necessitate an open approach. Recent advances in robotics and artificial intelligence, however, are gaining momentum and have shown significant promise to improve patient care in plastic surgery. These next-generation surgical robots have the potential to enable surgeons to perform complex procedures with greater precision, flexibility, and control than previously possible with conventional techniques. Successful integration of robotic technologies into clinical practice in plastic surgery requires achieving key milestones, including implementing appropriate surgical education and garnering patient trust.

FORMATION OF THE INNOVATION POTENTIAL OF COMPANIES IN THE CONDITIONS OF DIGITALIZATION

The relevance of the problem of innovative potential formation of companies in Ukraine is determined. The issues of interdependence of the processes of digital transformation and innovative potential formation of companies in modern conditions are analyzed. The essence of the concept “innovative potential of a company” has been clarified. A model of functional and structural decomposition of the company’s innovative potential formation is developed as a basis for a deep systematisation and study of the innovative processes taking place in the company. Dynamics of the development of innovation activity of Ukrainian companies are analyzed. It is investigated that digitalization processes at the macro level are being implemented more dynamically than at the micro level in Ukraine. Trends to decrease the innovation activity of domestic industrial enterprises over the past 20 years have been identified. It is proved that our country is taking some steps to create a favourable ecosystem for the development of digital technologies and the formation of innovative potential by business. The article reveals the reasons that reduce the innovative activity of Ukrainian companies, slow down the processes of digital transformation, and complicate the process of innovative potential formation: lack of financial resources, low level of national scientific and technical potential, regulatory imperfection for intellectual property of innovators, low level of innovation culture in the country, prevalence of short-term thinking over long-term thinking due to high turbulence in the external environment, excessive bureaucratisation of innovation administrative procedures, a growing shortage of qualified personnel, deficiencies in effective demand for innovation in the domestic market, etc. A research proposal includes a creation of favourable conditions for intensifying the processes of digitalization of companies’ activities and developing their innovation potential.

Use of Advanced Technologies for Topographic Surveys in Civil Construction

The complexity that has characterized market relations in recent years, with demands for product and process innovation, has even had repercussions on more traditional activities, such as the civil construction segment. Behind only agriculture, the construction industry represents 13% of the global GDP and its volume is US$ 8 trillion per year. However, construction projects often exceed budget by 80%, and deadlines by 20 months. Between 8% and 10% of productivity gains are related to the insertion of technologies (IPEA, 2022). In the field of civil construction, these digital technologies, such as cloud computing, automation, virtual reality and augmented reality, 3D modeling, communication applications and BIM—Building Information Modeling and even machine learning, have been called Construction 4.0. This article evaluates the feasibility of replacing the use of Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) by the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). For this, it presents a comparison in the use of equipment for carrying out planimetric surveys in civil construction, using as an example the UAV and the TLS—more modern equipment, in addition to the total station—more conventional equipment—for surveying control points. The results show that in the UAV image processing, the RMSE presented a centimeter accuracy (1.93044 cm) for the model. Even if the accuracy of the models generated by TLS is millimetric, it can be considered that the results obtained here were satisfactory, however it is necessary to apply imaging techniques more efficiently to obtain a more accurate product, in order to arrive at millimeter accuracy. Studies on better positioning of targets and georeferencing of models would also be of great contribution to applications in civil construction.

Demand for water innovation: evidence on wastewater technology adoption in thirteen African countries

Demand for water innovation: evidence on wastewater technology adoption in thirteen African countries

Examining the relationships between supply, demand, and environmental policies for science and technology innovation using a system simulation model

The development of science and technology has been increasingly linked with the implementation of science and technology innovation (STI) policies with important strategic significance for promoting national and regional innovation. In actual implementation, many types of STI policies are often combined for a joint effect; however, existing studies tend to focus on the effect of a single policy. The system simulation method can break through the limitations of traditional methods in model assumptions and establish a model that is as close to reality as possible. Notably, it is unusual to use the system simulation method to investigate STI policies. Using a system simulation model, this study conducts a detailed analysis to examine the complex causal relationships of STI systems and study the impact and mechanism of STI policy from a systematic perspective. This study quantifies various STI policies, establishing a simulation model to reflect the dynamic behavior of the regional STI policy system. The empirical results demonstrate that when a single type of policy is examined, the STI supply policy has the most significant impact on promoting STI and economic development. When various STI policies are combined, the combination of supply and demand policies has the greatest promotional effect on STI and economic development, whereas the combination of demand and environmental policies has the least promotional effect on STI and economic development. The results also show that the combined effect of various STI policies is not based on the simple addition of the effects of various policies, as there is an apparent synergy phenomenon in the combined STI effects. This study contributes to the existing literature and provides practical insights for policymakers and policy enthusiasts to understand the relationships between STI supply, demand, and environmental policies to advance policy effectiveness and promote sustainable development.

ДЕТЕРМИНАНТЫ РАЗВИТИЯ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ИННОВАЦИОННОЙ СИСТЕМЫ: ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКИЕ ОСНОВАНИЯ И ПРАКТИКА

The article shows that the political system can be considered as a national innovation system that requires modernization and has all the key parameters by analogy with the socio-economic national innovation system. Innovation processes should be provided with appropriate resources, infrastructure, models of interaction of all actors, the request and support from the state and society, the ideology of the value and necessity of innovation, the expertise of the value-target component of innovative transformations. The analysis of the current data of social monitoring on the topic of innovation and modernization in Russia allows us to identify positive dynamics in the formation of the public demand, demand for innovation, and, at the same time, the insufficient effectiveness of the state innovation policy.

Merdeka Belajar: the Real Learning Needs of Students, Teachers, and Institutions Related to Demands for Independent Learning Innovation

This study aimed to identify real learning needs to meet the requirements of the 'Merdeka Belajar' [Freedom of Learning] concept initiated by the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture. This survey revealed the urgent needs of students, teachers, and institutions regarding implementing the 'Freedom of Learning' concept, as indicated by the responses of 1,935 teachers and students from various secondary schools in DKI Jakarta who completed self-designed questionnaires. These needs included freedom from formalities, adequate infrastructure, evaluation assessment systems aligned with the principle of free education, and full support from all stakeholders, particularly local government. The "Freedom of Learning" implications for government policies are also discussed.

Enterprise income tax and corporate innovation: evidence from China

ABSTRACT Using China’s 2008 enterprise income tax (EIT) reform, this study examines the effect of EIT on corporate innovation comprehensively. Based on accurate identification of the direction of changes in the corporate tax rate, we introduce two dummy variables of tax rate decline and escalation to investigate the impact of EIT changes simultaneously. Using the firm-level dataset from China’s A-share listed companies, we find that the innovation level of tax-rate-declining enterprises will increase by 0.2%, whereas the innovation level of tax-rate-increasing enterprises will decrease by 0.4%. The dynamic effect demonstrates that the aforementioned promoting and inhibitory effects are continuous. Heterogeneity analyses reveal that the changes in the EIT rates have a greater impact on the innovation level of enterprises with high innovation demand, manufacturing enterprises, enterprises in a high rule of law environment, and enterprises in the eastern region. Our study highlights the importance of the EIT reform on corporate innovation and guides how to better optimize the effectiveness of such policies.

Higher Vocational Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ability Demand Prediction

The new era background and new social background put forward higher goals for the cultivation of innovative talents. The accurate prediction of the demand for innovation and entrepreneurship vocational ability of higher vocational students provides an important reference for higher vocational educators to formulate refined innovation and entrepreneurship education management strategies, more balanced allocation of limited innovation and entrepreneurship education resources, and make more scientific innovation and entrepreneurship education decisions. This paper studies the prediction of innovation and entrepreneurship vocational ability demand of higher vocational students under the background of digital informatization and theoretically discusses the demand for innovation and entrepreneurship vocational ability of higher vocational students and its connotation. It constructs the demand prediction framework of innovation and entrepreneurship vocational ability of higher vocational students for data identified on the Knowledge Retrieval Engine or High-quality Knowledge Q&A and Sharing Community, and develops the collection and use methods of students' innovation and entrepreneurship resource retrieval data. It makes the feature selection of the keyword sequence and the corresponding time lag sequence selected by the higher vocational students' innovation and entrepreneurship resource retrieval and builds the prediction model of the vocational ability demand for innovation and entrepreneurship of higher vocational students. Experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed model.

Research on the Influence of Supply Chain Finance on Enterprise Operation Performance Under the Background of Digital Transformation

In the economic market, small and medium-sized enterprises are the most solid, the most active and the largest entity for promoting economic development, stimulating the demand for innovation, improving people's lives and increasing employment. However, the problem of financing constraint is always the shackle that restricts the development of small and medium-sized enterprises. As a strong support for national development, the integration of the real economy and the financial supply side has been in constant friction. Efforts should be made to create a sound financing ecology, and further promote the solution of the financing difficulties of the real economy, especially for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. In reality, the shortage of operating capital is always the main factor restricting the improvement of enterprise operation performance. In view of this situation, supply chain finance is regarded as an effective way to solve the financing problems of small and medium-sized enterprises by the theoretical circle and the industrial circle. Supply chain finance, as a new financing solution, helps to optimize the allocation of resources and funds between the upstream and downstream organizations of the supply chain, and gradually becomes an important way to alleviate the shortage of operating funds for small and medium-sized enterprises. This paper systematically reviews the relationships among supply chain finance, supply chain integration, enterprise digital transformation and enterprise operation performance, and reviews the information asymmetry theory and transaction cost theory.

Инновационная активность российских регионов: проблемы и пути решения

The article is devoted to the issue of innovative development of Russian regions. The place of Russia in the global ranking in terms of innovation is shown. The problem of interregional inequality in the level of innovative development is identified and the factors that negatively affect the demand for innovation in the regions of Russia are identified. Some measures to reduce interregional inequality in the field of innovation are proposed.

Identification of operational risk of embedded Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) technology based on ISO 31000: Systematic Literature Review

In the current digital era, telecommunications industry technology is growing rapidly, impacting the demands for innovation in the telecommunications operator business. One of them is the change in the size of the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card model, which is getting smaller, and the use of embedded SIM (eSIM) technology on smartphones. This study aims to identify operational risk factors from the change in SIM card technology to eSIM. The research method used is the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method. This study documents and reviews scientific journal papers from scientific databases published from 2015 to 2022 on risk management in the information technology field, following this research's objectives. The results obtained from this study showed that there were 43 journals studied, of which four had the theme of technology-embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM), and 13 discussed risk operations technology

Education, Innovation and Software Production: the contributions of the Reflective Practice in a Software Studio

The growth of the mobile phone market has been generating a great demand for professionals qualified for applications (APPs) development. The required profile includes technical skills, also known as hard skills, and behavioral or soft skills. The training of these professionals in speed, quantity, and quality demanded by the market poses a significant challenge for educational institutions. Apple and PUCPR have established a partnership to build a software studio to develop such talents using the Challenge Based Learning (CBL) method and associated practices whose effects need to be studied. This research aims to analyze the contributions of reflective practice in a software studio to teach the main professional competencies regarding app development, including hard and soft skills. The research method was the case study, based on semi-structured interviews with 28 participants in three cycles. The collected data were analyzed with open and axial coding from Grounded Theory and Atlas.ti tool. The results demonstrate that reflective practice, applied in a software studio environment that uses CBL was able to help students to map new ideas and acquire valuable hard and soft skills. The study pointed out that reflective practice is an effective instrument for developing the skills required by the app market, which demands innovation and quality at high speed.