Desire For Innovation Research Articles

Соціалізація особистості в умовах глобалізації світу

The article analyzes the influence of globalization processes on the socialization of the individual based on the analysis of scientific sources, statistics and normative documents. It is established that globalization as a systematic process touches all sides and spheres of life of the modern man, directly influencing the formation of personality. The process is inherently ambiguous and controversial. It is revealed that for young people, globalization seems to be expanding the boundaries of personal space through the active use of innovative technologies and modern means of communication. This means more information, more opportunities to see the world, more mobility, diversity in the choice of culture and lifestyle, and more opportunities for the development of diverse youth communities around the world. One of the peculiarities of personality formation in the context of global change is the emergence of new value-meaning landmarks that can be defined as "globally-postindustrial". Values such as efficiency, initiative, pragmatism, entrepreneurship, the desire for innovation, the ability to realize creative potential - are able to positively influence the socialization of the individual. The risks of personality formation in the conditions of globalization of the world are analyzed. This is the loss of national identity, the negative impact of low-profile «mass culture», the absolutization of material values, the global problems of humanity. The possible ways of neutralizing their negative impact on humanity as a whole and on the individual are named.

The Medieval New: Ambivalence in an Age of Innovation. Patricia Clare Ingham. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. 277.

<i>The Medieval New: Ambivalence in an Age of Innovation</i>. Patricia Clare Ingham. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. 277.

Technology allows audience role in news construction

This ethnographic study examines how technology affects gatekeeping and allows the audience more influence at The St. Louis Beacon, an online news nonprofi t. The study finds that a lack of resources results in less desire for innovation; however, technology does give the audience more power to shape content.

STRUCTURAL AND LOGICAL MODEL OF THE METHODOLOGY OF ECONOMIC SUBSTANTIATION OF INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENTS

In the article the emphasis has been made on the importance of economic development of Ukraine in context of European integration. The main features of euro economics are determined. It is established that the main trend of economic development is a powerful support for innovative activity in the country. The technique of the analysis of the peculiarities of the economic justification of innovative solutions is worked out. The sequence of procedures that constitute the methodology of economic substantiation of innovations is justified. The attention is focused on the sequence of carrying out relevant calculations, which involves: market analysis, analysis of the level of quality of innovation, the analysis of the competitiveness of the innovation, the cost calculation of innovative solutions, pricing and critical volume of sales, the calculation of operating costs, as well as determining rates of return, margins and profitability development. Also it has been built a logical model of calculation of basic indicators. The results of application of this model have become the basis for management decisions making on the desirability of innovation from the point of view of its technical and economic performance and commercial benefits. The structural and logical model can become the basis for the development of the corresponding software product.

The Exotic West: The Circuit of Carioca Featherwork in the Nineteenth Century

Taking a feather fan belonging to the Jerônimo Ferreira das Neves Collection at the D. João VI Museum in Rio de Janeiro as a starting point, this article examines a type of featherwork that was produced for export during the nineteenth century in Brazil. The nineteenth-century fashion for adornments made from feathers and stuffed animals invaded major fashion-producing centers such as Paris and London at the time when bourgeois imperialism was helping to multiply intercontinental trade links. For middle-class women, these objects introduced the exotic as a distinct aesthetic, corresponding to a desire for innovation driven by the growing standardization in food, housing and clothing. Rigid feather fans produced in Rio de Janeiro were internationally known from 1830 onwards. However, even when taking into account existing studies, little is known about this Rio-based rigid feather fan industry, which reached its peak between 1870 and 1890. In reflecting on the production, circulation and consumption of rigid fans, this paper aims to identify the symbolic meanings attributed to the products of this industry by Brazilian and European markets.

ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN MANAGEMENT

The article characterises the multidimensional and dynamic phenomenon referred to as the role of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial management. It was shown that the development of entrepreneurship and innovation are conditioned by knowledge, especially the Tacit knowledge transfer capability, which is synonymous with the possibility of transferring people equipped with know-how, skills and experience, which in turn is closely dependent not only on the process of knowledge and innovation management, but also on the organizational culture. It was shown that entrepreneurship (understood as the ability to create something new and worthwhile) is determined by seeking creative solutions and implementing them in practice. Assuming that the essence of entrepreneurial behaviour is creating, recognizing, interpreting and using opportuni-ties, at the same time constituting an entrepreneur’s act of creation, it was shown that creativity, creative problem-solving and the desire for innovation with the ability to take risks (and responsibility for them) determine entrepreneurship in a significant way. The article also suggests paying more attention to the job satisfaction of employees in the context of their creativity and, consequently, entrepreneurship.

Boy‐only classrooms: gender reform in Windsor, Ontario 1966–1972

From 1966 to 1972, Flintridge Elementary school located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada implemented a short lived gender reform plan to help raise boys’ achievement. Shaped by a variety of complex historical factors and fuelled by a desire for innovation, educators from Flintridge Elementary sought to address the educational needs of primary school boys by establishing single‐sex classrooms, hiring more male teachers, and developing a more “masculinised” curriculum. Drawing on articles from the popular media, scholarly journals, annual school board reports, and face‐to‐face interviews with 10 educators directly involved in the gender reform, this small scale study reveals the potential difficulties and consequences that arise when boy‐only settings are implemented in schools as a way to address the educational needs of boys. This suggests the need for today’s educators to move beyond outdated, simplistic approaches such as boy‐only arrangements in addressing the educational needs of boys, in order to help boys not only achieve academically but, more broadly, to lead more fulfilling and just lives.

Accountability and Control as Catalysts for Strategic Exploration and Exploitation: Field Study Results

This paper reports the collective finding from 102 field studies that look at the relationship between two organization design variables: span of control and span of accountability. Clustering the data yields propositions suggesting that the relationship between these variables may be an important determinant of strategic exploitation and exploration activities. Data from the field studies suggest that, in accordance with the controllability principle, accountability and control are tightly aligned for exploitation activities. However, this result was found in only a small number of tasks and functions. In the majority of situations, spans of accountability were wider than spans of control. This Entrepreneurial Gap is posited to be a result of management's desire for innovation and exploration-and used as a catalyst for changing strategy, creating high levels of customer satisfaction, or motivating people to navigate complex matrix organizations.

MBTI personality type and other factors that relate to preference for online versus face-to-face instruction

Online college classes are being offered at a rate that far exceeds the growth of overall higher education classes. However, much can still be learned about how to create a better online classroom environment by determining why a large percentage of students continue to prefer face-to-face classes. One factor among many that may have an influence on preference is personality since it relates to learning style and comfort level. A poor fit in learning style or a low comfort level can lead to student dissatisfaction and attrition. The current study gave 166 mostly female college students, two-thirds of whom were taking or had taken four or more online classes, the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and a Likert-type questionnaire asking why they preferred one teaching modality delivery over the other. Results revealed that a statistically significant majority of Introverts preferred online classes and Extraverts face-to-face classes. A trend with a small effect size toward Perceiving types preferring face-to-face classes was also found. Overall, students who preferred online classes indicated their rank ordered preference was because of convenience, the enjoyment of computer technology, and a desire for innovation whereas those who preferred face-to-face classes reported they were influenced by the class structure appealing to their need to learn through listening and by their desire to better gauge the emotional reactions of others in the class. Implications for design of online classes to appeal to students who prefer face-to-face learning environments and for academic counseling and advising are discussed.

Unlocking Human Potential through Technical Innovation

Future innovations in technologies are just as likely to be driven by the outside demands for these technologies than by improvements driven from within the computer science community. In this regard, I define computing as the union of concerns including traditional computer science (such as systems, architecture, networking), human-computer interaction (HCI), graphics and animation, robotics, and theoretical foundations across the board. Alongside the formation of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech 15 years ago, the GVU Center for research was created to study, predict, and design future innovations in based on then unseen uses of technologies by enterprises not associated with computer science. Many research pundits at the time predicted that innovation would arise only from a technical agenda driven by rapid technology advances while people, evolutionarily speaking, would remain relatively unchanged. On the contrary, GVU's research agenda has evolved rapidly as people's capacity and desire for innovation has been almost without limits. In this article, I reflect on the evolving mission of this interdisciplinary research center, describing GVU's agenda going forward and how this agenda mirrors changes in the industry.

"News, and New Things": Contemporaneity and the Early English Novel

Long before Samuel Richardson showed readers and writers of fiction how to savor a single human instant a thousand ways, the world of print had begun its long liaison with the up-to-date, the latest news, the present moment, trying to provide a sense that the printing press offered a technology for nearly instant replay of human experience. Such a sense was crucial to many varieties of art and cultural experience in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries because the culture itself had developed a fixation on contemporaneity, part of its larger interest in discovery, enlightenment, and novelty. When the journalist, publisher, and would-be narrative-writer John Dunton insisted (repeatedly) that News, and new Things do the whole World bewitch,' he was characteristically blurring a distinction, this time between intellectual curiosity and the desire to be au courant, the fundamental motivations, respectively, for readers of science and journalism. But the blur represents a shrewd perception of connection between acute awareness of the latest events and the desire for innovation and originality. Both features of contemporary consciousness were crucial to the emergence of the peculiar, present-centered form of narrative that we have come to call (appropriately enough) the novel, and in fact the fusion of the two helps create the cultural mind that makes the novel possible.

The Change Masters: Innovations for Productivity in the American Corporation

Kanter, writing in 1983, argued that business was facing an unfavorable economic and social environment and in dire need of an American corporate Renaissance. World events were threatening America's competitive strengths and survival. Nonetheless, she finds in exemplary companies practices that lead to productive responses to and serve as models for fostering innovation, which will provide America's competitive advantage. The tools to save the corporation already exist; they just need to be used. The author defines a change as someone who can manage effectively; they understand the architecture and strategy of and the importance of the organizational environment. To stay ahead of this changing environment, firms need to stimulate more innovation, enterprise, and initiative. They must place more emphasis and value on individuals, who - in the right circumstances - come up with innovations. Firms must investment in people and long-term profitability related to taking a lead in innovation. Innovation is defined broadly as bringing any new, problem solving idea into use. In general, Kanter is more focused on innovation within organizations (corporate entrepreneurs) than entrepreneurial startups. Innovation is supported by cultures of pride and change, and by an environment that gives people the power to innovate and put ideas into action. Kanter's fundamental distinction is between segmented and integrated organizations. Integrated organizations are highly innovative and oriented; they are willing to move beyond received wisdom, combine ideas from diverse sources, and embrace as an opportunity. Firms invest in people; individuals may initiate ideas, but teams carry them forward. Firms incentivize initiative, and success comes not from domination but flexibility. High-innovation companies are also exemplary in human-resource practices. Problems are seen as wholes, related to larger wholes, and challenges to established practices. Segmented organizations are innovating-smoothering and anti-change. They compartmentalize actions, events, and problems, and keep pieces and persons isolated; innovation is inhibited at every step of the solution-search process. Problems are seen as narrowly as possible and independent of context and connections to other problems. Past structures and procedures dominate the future. The organizations are likely to be large, segmented, and hierarchical. Nevertheless, four patterns in less-innovating companies are identified. In such firms, there is a tension between desire for innovation and blocking it. Kanter presents her well-known ten Rules for Stifling Change. Innovation, nonetheless, can sometimes occur in segmented organizations; but even then, innovations do not survive initial trials or become widely used. Three skills are needed to manage innovation in integrated environments: power skills; ability to manage problems associated with use of teams and employee participation; and understanding how is designed and constructed. Needed power tools are supplies information, resources, and support. Supporting the circulation of power are open communication systems, network-forming arrangements, and decentralization of resources. Successful and flourishing corporations will master the art of change: creating a new climate encouraging new procedures and possibilities, anticipating and responding to external pressures, and being responsive to new ideas from inside the organization. The challenge for innovative companies is energizing the grass roots, or to combining the necessity of routine jobs with the possibility of employees contributing to innovation. Needed for innovation is the development of a parallel participative organization within the formal hierarchy of a company. Innovation requires a corporate entrepreneur who knows how

The Dutch EKT Foundation: Experiments in Art and Technology

to mimetic. Art, science and technology are related to the cultural systems in which they function but styles, paradigms and conventions also constitute particular systems for the making of art works and for scientific activitypartly determined by media, notations and codes. They can be compared with regard to the characteristics of a system, as mentioned above, to which may be added considerations about the role of time, the nature of the permanent substructure presupposed by any system and the isolation of data from the continuum of the world of experience. The systematic aspects of art and science must be elucidated further by comparisons with play and game, cosmological systems, social structures and other instances of systematic acvitiy. 3. Science as a formative process In science, as much as in art, form is given to certain conceptions; this form determines the effect of the conceptions on those who work with them and the possible uses that they may put them to and it is in turn determined by scientific 'styles' and by media, notations and models. 4. Algorithms in art The term algorithm is used to designate a set of operations that a system requires its users to carry out in order to transform a given situation into a situation acceptable 'from the system's viewpoint'. In its broadest sense, an algorithm allows for a certain freedom in the number and sequence of steps to be taken, provided that some basic conditions are complied with-in its strictest sense, an algorithm becomes a fixed rule. The procedure for using algorithms does not necessarily presuppose that the user understands the procedure; he may even be unaware of using an algorithm at all. The latter is the case in much 'spontaneously created' art, which on close scrutiny turns out to make use of pre-set patterns. Both the production and reception of art are largely conditioned by automatically adopted attitudes. Conversely, the automation of creative procedures in some recent art forms is not foreign to art; systematic art differs from more 'spontaneous' schools mainly in using algorithms consciously and selecting those that can be formalized. 5. Art and technical possibilities The adoption of new techniques in art, the 'improvement' of musical instruments, etc., seems always to have been preceded by a desire for innovation within the art itself. Once adopted, however, the new medium may turn out to possess unsuspected qualities that make it the starting-point for still other developments. It may also influence the creative process itself and, finally, the distribution and reception of works. In this short survey, I have concentrated on subjects 1 and 2 because they most clearly reveal the motives behind the EKT project and the way in which the problem is being approached. When, where and how the project is to be realized is at present uncertain and depends to a large extent upon the reactions to the EKT report. Further information on EKT may be obtained from Dr. H. J. M. Bos, Secretary of EKT, Mathematical Institute, Budapestlaan 6, Utrecht, Holland. 318 Cor Blok This content downloaded from 207.46.13.189 on Thu, 04 Aug 2016 04:31:36 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms