Emergence Of New Products Research Articles

Local Perceptions of Food Plants in Eastern Burkina Faso

Ethnobotanical interviews on the use of food plants were conducted with 90 informants from two villages in eastern Burkina Faso. A total of 25 plant species and one type of stock cube were included in a structured questionnaire regarding use, importance, reasons behind use, changes in use, and preferences, followed by a supplementary semi-structured questionnaire about reasons behind use, changes, and preferences. Most species were highly used and considered important. Adansonia digitata L., Bombax costatum Pellegr. & Vuillet, Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) R.Br. ex G.Don, and Vitellaria paradoxa C.F.Gaertn. were particularly important and useful species. Tradition, taste, health, and the lack of other possibilities were main reasons for people using the plants. A decline in traditional food products and an emergence of new products were observed. Answers were strongly related to informants’ home-village and project-contact. There seems to be an extensive interest in health aspects and, consequently, a potential for an increased use of healthy traditional products if people are better informed about their nutritive qualities. Normal 0 21 false false false FR X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:Tableau Normal; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Times New Roman; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}

Local Perceptions of Food Plants in Eastern Burkina Faso

Ethnobotanical interviews on the use of food plants were conducted with 90 informants from two villages in eastern Burkina Faso. A total of 25 plant species and one type of stock cube were included in a structured questionnaire regarding use, importance, reasons behind use, changes in use, and preferences, followed by a supplementary semi-structured questionnaire about reasons behind use, changes, and preferences. Most species were highly used and considered important. Adansonia digitata L., Bombax costatum Pellegr. & Vuillet, Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) R.Br. ex G.Don, and Vitellaria paradoxa C.F.Gaertn. were particularly important and useful species. Tradition, taste, health, and the lack of other possibilities were main reasons for people using the plants. A decline in traditional food products and an emergence of new products were observed. Answers were strongly related to informants’ home-village and project-contact. There seems to be an extensive interest in health aspects and, consequently, a potential for an increased use of healthy traditional products if people are better informed about their nutritive qualities.

Patterns of Innovation in Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Development: A Strategic Assessment Based on Technological Maturity

PurposeThis article examines the current status of translational science for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) drug discovery by using an analytical model of technology maturation. Previous studies using this model have demonstrated that nascent scientific insights and inventions generate few successful leads or new products until achieving a requisite level of maturity. This article assessed whether recent failures and successes in AD research follow patterns of innovation observed in other sectors. MethodsThe bibliometric-based Technology Innovation Maturation Evaluation model was used to quantify the characteristic S-curve of growth for AD-related technologies, including acetylcholinesterase, N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, B-amyloid, amyloid precursor protein, presenilin, amyloid precursor protein secretases, apolipoprotein E4, and transactive response DNA binding protein 43 kDa (TDP-43). This model quantifies the accumulation of knowledge as a metric for technological maturity, and it identifies the point of initiation of an exponential growth stage and the point at which growth slows as the technology is established. FindingsIn contrast to the long-established acetylcholinesterase and NMDA receptor technologies, we found that amyloid-related technologies reached the established point only after 2000, and that the more recent technologies (eg, TDP-43) have not yet approached this point. The first approvals for new molecular entities targeting acetylcholinesterase and the NMDA receptor occurred an average of 22 years after the respective technologies were established, with only memantine (which was phenotypically discovered) entering clinical trials before this point. In contrast, the 6 lead compounds targeting the formation of amyloid plaques that failed in Phase III trials between 2009 and 2014 all entered clinical trials before the respective target technologies were established. ImplicationsThis analysis suggests that AD drug discovery has followed a predictable pattern of innovation in which technological maturity is an important determinant of success in development. Quantitative analysis indicates that the lag in emergence of new products, and the much-heralded clinical failures of recent years, should be viewed in the context of the ongoing maturation of AD-related technologies. Although these technologies were not sufficiently mature to generate successful products a decade ago, they may be now. Analytical models of translational science can inform basic and clinical research results as well as strategic development of new therapeutic products.

University-Industry Cooperation Interfaces in Turkey from Academicians’ Perspective

Competitive economies are characterized by continuous emergence of new products. New products are mainly obtained by production of knowledge at universities and by transformation of this knowledge into new technology. Several interfaces (suitable instruments) have been developed in Turkey in order to transform the knowledge that is produced at universities into technology that can be used by the industry. The most important element of this interface is the academician who is the link between university and industry. While there are several factors encouraging academicians to participate in R&D projects through these interfaces, there are other factors preventing them from doing so. In other words, some interface models facilitate university-industry cooperation, some others have serious disadvantages. This study aims to determine the advantages and disadvantages of various university-industry cooperation interfaces from the perspective of academicians. To evaluate the interfaces, a field survey with academicians was conducted using questionnaires. The perceived positive/negative aspects of the cooperation interfaces have been summarized and assessed based on the responses.

Application of swot analysis in the development and promotion of enriched drinks

Technological factors are one of the four PEST analysis components. The purpose of their research is to identify trends in the technological development, which are the causes of market changes and losses, and emergence of new products. The advantages of new enriched drinks compared to traditional nectars were considered to compile SWOT analysis. Fillers production technology, based on gentle non-thermal physical separation of a water share from apple pomace and pumpkins, and enriched drinks based on them was given. The developed enriched drinks based on fruit and vegetable fillers contain about 10 times more dietary fibers, 30 times more carotene and 11 times more calcium than nectars produced by traditional technologies. The studies were aimed at developing the competition tactics and providing competitive advantages of enriched drinks using SWOT analysis to promote enriched drinks. Thus, market technological factors, namely the strengths and weaknesses of enriched juice drinks based on fruit and vegetable fillers that can facilitate or inhibit the promotion and position consolidation of this product in a certain market segment were analyzed. It was found that by processing apple pomace, apple juice production wastes and pumpkins, prices of juice drinks remain similar to prices of nectars produced by traditional technologies. As primary directions for the effective promotion of enriched drinks in the market of juices and soft drinks, merchandising should be highlighted - without the possibility to use direct advertising to promote a new product it is advisable to stimulate sales through indirect communications, which are less expensive but equally effective.

La construcción del proyecto axiológico colectivo desde el paradigma postreligional

The techno-sciences accelerated growth, in continuous interaction, and the constant emergence of new products and services, in a global society, are leading in all countries to the biggest axiological crisis our species has ever suffered. All societies are in transition, from a preindustrial life to the industrial ones, and from industrial to societies of knowledge, innovation and continuous change. Knowledge Societies, inevitable legacy of our elders, are already been implanted in humanity, to stay and expand. The axiological collective projects (ACP), characteristic of preindustrial societies, with their religious paradigm, have been expelled from large social groups and have been called into question by the rest. Also ideologies of industrial societies are being shown in all parts unable to provide a ACP that address the problems that arise in the current transit. We know that the ACP can not come to us nor from heaven, nor from the nature of things. We have to build by ourselves, but our ancestors taught us no procedures to do that. Our urgent task is to create a knowledge about how to build an axiological epistemology. We have to create collective ACP from post-religional paradigm. At etake is our survival.

DESEMPENHO COMERCIAL DOS INSUMOS FARMACÊUTICOS VEGETAIS NO BRASIL

Herbal medicines are natural products derived from medicinal plants from knowledge of the therapeutic activities of these. The sales in this sector grow through the emergence of new products and innovative medicines. However, the difficulty of Brazil to promote innovation from herbal medicines shown conflicting in a country of great potential in biodiversity and excellent environmental conditions. In this scenario, the plant pharmaceutical ingredients offer an excellent starting point for production and development of herbal medicines. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the trade performance of pharmaceutical ingredients plant in Brazil. To conduct research, secondary data available in the Sistema de Analise das Informacoes de Comercio Exterior via Internet (ALICEweb, 2013) were used. The analyzed values ​​of exports and imports of pharmaceutical ingredients plant from January 2002 to December 2013 show that Brazil has a large dependency. It is observed from this reflection the need to develop public policies to stimulate the production of plant pharmaceutical ingredients with high added value and strategies for strengthening productive agglomerations in Brazil.

Assessing visitor satisfaction with a pioneering agritourism project: vegetable tourism in the Parc Agrari del Baix Llobregat (Barcelona)

Among the major changes that have occurred in the tourist sector in recent years, of particular note has been the constant emergence of new products that seek to satisfy the needs of tourists demanding new kinds of consumer experiences. A good example of this is agritourism, in which the tourist participates in the typical activities of a working farm. This study focuses on a recent variant of this type of tourism, known as vegetable tourism (or holeriturismo in Spanish). Specifically, an assessment is undertaken of a pioneering project in Spain on an agricultural park: the Parc Agrari del Baix Llobregat (Barcelona). Based on the information obtained from a survey conducted in the Park itself, the degree of visitor satisfaction with the various activities they experience is analysed. Using non-parametric statistical methods, the study seeks to determine whether the visitors’ socio-demographic profile and their knowledge of the concept of vegetable tourism have a significant impact on their assessments.

The dynamics of the labour market and income distribution in relation to the speed of demand saturation

The purpose of this paper is to provide a coherent framework to explain the unusual phenomena of employment, real wage, and profit share observed in industrialised economies since the 1980s, in relation to the speed of demand saturation. To this end, we use a multisectoral model including capital goods and the stochastic emergence of new products. We show that faster demand saturation tends to accelerate the growth of employment but decelerate the growth of the real wage. Furthermore, we show that faster demand saturation tends to increase the profit share and the share eventually converges irrespective of the difference in the speed of demand saturation. Finally, it is argued that our model has a critical implication for the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU).

1.3.1 How to use systems architecture to specify the operational perimeter of an innovative product line

AbstractIn industrial companies, it can be observed that research and development departments encounter difficulties during the innovation phase. Indeed, searchers have a tendency to optimize technologies in an unorganized way. As a result, they often end up with products that do not fit with the industrial needs and are stored on shelves. The emergence of new products in an industrial perimeter should be the result of a careful study of the context, environment constrains, and stakeholder's needs which have to be translated into requirements building a frame for innovation. This article's aim is to propose a suitable methodology (system architecture) to manage and supervise innovation in order to create or improve a product. We will apply this methodology to a wireless sensor network system which is an innovative product research field launch by the rising aeronautic need to lighten aircrafts. As this system's final purpose is to be installed on aircrafts, we will try to build a family of modular systems with common basic module and specific compatible modules.

Turbulencia Empresarial en Colombia: Sector de Materias Primas Químicas 2001-2009 (Turbulence Business Environment: Row Material for Chemical Industry Sector)

In the past five years, companies have been confronted with an environment principally by the presence uncertainty, dynamism and complexity. Uncertainty evident when making decisions, without being able to have certainty about what can happen to the company, the dynamic look is accomplished by the permanent change in the customer needs and the emergence of new products, which causes increased competition for price, and the complexity can be identified in the emergence of new actors that must interact to conduct a transaction. Many companies have failed to address this situation in the best way, which has led them to present financial problems. One reason is the lack of perception environment.This paper uses the study of the row material for chemical industry using a quantitative overcrowding, overcrowding qualitative analysis performance, competitive landscape, competitive study, called the sector sustainable potential growth, erosion rates and market forces.

Turbulencia Empresarial en Colombia: El Caso del Sector de la Bisutería Industrial (Turbulence Business in Colombia: The Jewelry Industrial Sector)

In the past five years, companies have been confronted with an environment principally by the presence uncertainty, dynamism and complexity. Uncertainty evident when making decisions, without being able to have certainty about what can happen to the company, the dynamic look is accomplished by the permanent change in the customer needs and the emergence of new products, which causes increased competition for price, and the complexity can be identified in the emergence of new actors that must interact to conduct a transaction. Many companies have failed to address this situation in the best way, which has led them to present financial problems. One reason is the lack of perception environment.This paper uses the study of the jewelry sector using a quantitative overcrowding, overcrowding qualitative analysis performance, competitive landscape, competitive study, called the sector sustainable potential growth, erosion rates and market forces.

Turbulencia Empresarial en Colombia: El Caso Del Sector de Ensamble Automotriz (Turbulence Business Environment in Colombia: The Car Assembly Sector)

In the past five years, companies have been confronted with an environment principally by the presence uncertainty, dynamism and complexity. Uncertainty evident when making decisions, without being able to have certainty about what can happen to the company, the dynamic look is accomplished by the permanent change in the customer needs and the emergence of new products, which causes increased competition for price, and the complexity can be identified in the emergence of new actors that must interact to conduct a transaction. Many companies have failed to address this situation in the best way, which has led them to present financial problems. One reason is the lack of perception environment.This paper uses the study of the car assembly sector using a quantitative overcrowding, overcrowding qualitative analysis performance, competitive landscape, competitive study, called the sector sustainable potential growth, erosion rates and market forces.

Many Physicians Are Willing To Use Patients’ Electronic Personal Health Records, But Doctors Differ By Location, Gender, And Practice

Electronic personal health records could become important tools for patients to use in managing and monitoring their health information and communicating with clinicians. With the emergence of new products and federal incentives that might indirectly encourage greater use of personal health records, policy makers should understand the views of physicians on using these records. In a national survey of physicians in 2008-09, we found that although 64 percent have never used a patient's electronic personal health record, 42 percent would be willing to try. Strikingly, rural physicians expressed much more willingness to use such records compared to urban or suburban physicians. Female physicians were significantly less willing to use these tools than their male peers (34 percent versus 46 percent). Physicians broadly have concerns about the impact on patients' privacy, the accuracy of underlying data, their potential liability for tracking all of the information that might be entered into a personal health record, and the lack of payment to clinicians for using or reviewing these patient records.

How to Achieve Longevity and Quality of Life: A Case Study in the Dairy Sector 2000-2009 (In Spanish)

In the first decade of the century, Colombian companies are affected by discontinuities of technological, political, demographic, economic which have tested the learning ability to meet those challenges and to survive. These discontinuities in the environment have led to turmoil in the sector, a phenomenon characterized by three elements: uncertainty, dynamism and complexity. The uncertainty is evident when making decisions, without being able to be certain about what may happen to the company, or the effect of a decision taken, the dynamic look is accomplished by permanent changes in customer needs and emergence of new products, which leads to increased price competition, and complexity can be identified in the emergence of new actors that must interact to conduct a transaction. This document is intended to perform an analysis of three major dairy companies in Colombia during the period 200-2009, identifying how each of the companies surveyed faced turbulence in the environment to survive over time. The longevity research in Colombia has been addressed by the sustainability research group at the Faculty of Business Administration from the University of Rosario created in 2004, seeks to identify the conditions for Colombian organizations persist over time. Understanding durability and longevity with quality of life. Research efforts developed by the group's researchers have identified thirteen conditions for the sustainability of the enterprise: organizational identity, formalization for the government, social cohesion, formalizing support for decision-making. Appreciation for the environment and industry differentiation. Employees' social dynamics, factors contributing to the efficiency, consolidation, integrated management, knowledge and market environment, efficiency in processes, financial management. This paper provides a description of three companies in the dairy sector. The first company is Colanta, founded in 1964. The company has been recognized only in the dairy sector with the Cross of Boyaca, the highest distinction of the Presidency of the Republic. Colanta has a diverse portfolio of products. The second company studied is Alpine, which was founded in 1945 with the arrival of the Swiss Walter Bazinga Googel and Max, in our country. Alpine is currently the leader in food of our country and is also present in Ecuador, Venezuela, Central and South America, where it has consolidated its products and has successfully positioned thanks to its constant innovation and the ability to be always ahead of the wishes and needs of consumers. The third company discussed is La Alqueria, founded in 1958. The company's biggest market is concentrated in the city of Bogota, Cali and Bucaramanga. For this reason, in the future seeks to increase participation in other areas of the country like Costa to continue a profitable and sustainable growth for the period 2007-2008 has been about 30%.

Sector Analysis of Meat Derivatives in the Period 2000-2008 (In Spanish)

In the past five years, companies have been confronted with an environment principally by the presence uncertainty, dynamism and complexity. Uncertainty evident when making decisions, without being able to have certainty about what can happen to the company, the dynamic look is accomplished by the permanent change in the customer needs and the emergence of new products, which causes increased competition for price, and the complexity can be identified in the emergence of new actors that must interact to conduct a transaction. Many companies have failed to address this situation in the best way, which has led them to present financial problems. One reason is the lack of perception environment.This paper uses the study of the meat products industry using a quantitative overcrowding, overcrowding qualitative analysis performance, competitive landscape, competitive study, called the sector sustainable potential growth, erosion rates and market forces.

Venture Capitalism, New Markets and Innovation-Led Economic Growth

This paper explores the new market-mediating mechanisms linking SU invention on the one hand and economic growth on the other. Two such mechanisms come to our mind under venture capitalism (of which venture capitalism is directly involved only in the first): 1) a systemic rather than haphazard link between radical inventions and the emergence of new product markets; and 2) a link between new product markets) on the one hand and invention & unbundled technology markets on the other. The first highlights not only the volatility and precariousness of the RD and 2b) a demand for a substitute, disruptive technology which could replace the existing one. In both cases market size signals the ‘benefits’ to be derived from improving or substituting the underlying technology.

Soumission chimique : administration de psychotropes à l’insu d’une victime à des fins d’agression: Étude prospective de 52 cas au sein d’une unité médico-judiciaire

Little is known about the rate of crimes that are facilitated by the administration of psychoactive products without the victim's knowledge. This study analyzes the cases collected over a two-year period in a forensic unit in Paris.The study covers the period from January 1, 2005 and December /31, 2006. It includes crime victims who consulted for toxicological testing in the forensic unit of the Hôtel Dieu in Paris, after filing a criminal complaint describing symptoms suggestive of chemical submission (amnesia, impaired vigilance or behavior) and whose toxicological tests indicated the presence of a psychoactive product that they had not been aware of taking. The tests used chromatographic techniques on blood, urine, hair, and food or drink residue.Toxicological testing identified 52 cases of drug-facilitated crimes, primarily for theft and sexual abuse (including rape). The psychoactive products were most often incorporated in drinks, half of them alcoholic beverages. Benzodiazepines accounted for 77% of the cases. Other substances, found more rarely, included antihistamines, neuroleptics, and GHB.Appropriate samples must be taken from victims rapidly to enable toxicological analysis. Chromatographic analysis must supplement immunological analysis, which is not sufficiently specific or sensitive. The collection of this information must continue in order to quantify the phenomenon and monitor the emergence of new products.

Information and Communication Technologies ICT as a Source for Technological Development

The significance of Information and Communication Technologies ICT to the economic, technological and social development and growth has clearly been analyzed in several academic, industry and government reports. This new industry transversely impacts and it is impacted in the entire productive sector of the economy. The present article is an attempt to describe the sources of new technological developments and disruptive innovations making possible the emergence of new product, business innovation models and value added services, and the subsequent creation of new technology based enterprises.

Micro and macro dynamics: Industry life cycles, inter-sector coordination and aggregate growth

Technological change directly affects economic growth by exploiting and exploring technological opportunities, thus determining productivity growth and income. However, technological change also affects the composition of the economic system, which itself constitutes an important prerequisite for economic growth. The first aim of this paper is to show that the growing variety of the economic system, determined by the emergence of new products and services and leading to new industrial sectors, can allow the long term continuation of economic development, even when the employment creating capacity of individual sectors falls. The second aim is to illustrate the impact of micro variables on the meso-level, that is, on the sectoral composition of an economy, as well as on its macro-economic performance.