Innovative Experience Research Articles

Managerial human capital and corporate R&D investment

In this study, we employ firm-level panel data from China to study how the human capital characteristics of a firm's leadership affect R&D investment. One novel feature of this study is that we include human capital traits of both the CEO and the Board of Directors, as well as their interplay. Human capital is measured with various experiences to capture observed and unobserved traits. Using various econometric techniques, we find that both CEO's and BOD's human capital characteristics have a significant impact on R&D investment. CEOs’ innovation experience and overseas experiences promote innovation, while their production experience hinders it. The education and government experiences of board directors show different impacts on R&D investment. Moreover, the human capital traits of CEO and BOD influence each other and thus jointly affect innovation. The effects of leadership human capital on R&D investment are more profound in tech-intensive and smaller firms than in traditional or larger firms.

Educational Equity: Study Abroad for Underrepresented Minority and First-Gen Public Health Students

For public health students, global education supports development of core skills towards becoming effective leaders and advocates for health equity. Despite the growing number of undergraduate students participating in experiential study abroad opportunities, there remains a stark educational disparity: racial and ethnic minority students continue to be underrepresented. Less than 20% of Hispanic/Latinx and African American students participate in study abroad (NAFSA, 2022). This situation is especially urgent given the shortage of diverse public health professionals. It is imperative for the educational pipeline to address the structural limitations that hinder access to academic opportunities for diverse and disadvantaged students. To meet the challenge, our institution created a course expressly for underrepresented minorities and first-generation public health students. This article describes the course’s intentional design, implementation, and assessment of long-term outcomes. Findings highlight the impact of this experience for minority and first-gen students as they entered graduate education and the public health workforce. All participants voiced benefits in developing relevant career skills, global citizenship, and personal growth. As public health educators, our focus on health equity must include equitable access to innovative experiences for underserved public health students as fundamental to public health pedagogy.

Crisis-induced innovation and crisis-induced innovators

ABSTRACT The literature on the persistence of innovation focuses on whether firms reduce, increase, or maintain their innovation activity over time, and in particular through cyclical downturns and crisis periods. What this literature tends to underemphasise is that innovation is also a tool firms can actively use to manage the unforeseen circumstances that arise in times of crisis. We argue and find that this kind of crisis-induced innovation displays patterns that are both similar to, and different from, the innovation behaviours found in more stable periods. More firms turn to innovation, but with important differences in intensity and expected long-run returns. Pre-crisis experience in innovation and organisational agility are key characteristics leading to higher levels of innovation in response to a crisis, higher likelihood of increasing the resources allocated to innovation during a crisis, and higher expected post-crisis value from the innovations undertaken in response to a crisis.

Cognitive Characteristics of an Innovation Team and Collaborative Innovation Performance: The Mediating Role of Cooperative Behavior and the Moderating Role of Team Innovation Efficacy

Based on the theory of social cognition, this paper discusses the cognitive characteristics of an innovation team, the influence mechanism of cooperative behavior on collaborative innovation performance, and the moderating effect of team innovation efficacy in an enterprise collaborative innovation network. The hypothesis has been verified on the basis of 288 valid questionnaires. The results show the following: in the process of collaborative innovation, different dimensions of innovation team cognitive characteristics, namely collaborative innovation experience, the internal innovation environment of the enterprise, and emotional experience, have a significant positive impact on the collaborative innovation performance; and cooperative behavior plays a partial mediating role in the cognitive characteristics of the innovation team and collaborative innovation performance. In addition, the team’s innovation efficacy positively moderates the relationship between cooperative behavior and collaborative innovation performance. The results of this study not only expand the application of the social cognitive theory to the scope of collaborative innovation activities, but also have a certain reference significance to effectively mobilize the innovation initiative of the enterprise innovation team and improve the performance of collaborative innovation.

Catching Colds with Canguilhem: Culturing Relations with Common Cold Viruses

This paper draws on the thought of the historian of science, Georges Canguilhem, to explore how the practice of making medical knowledge brings into question accepted understandings of (ill)health and contagious disease. Drawing out how the lively materialities of both humans and viruses shape human experience of viral infection, the analysis focuses on written and oral histories of the UK’s Common Cold research Unit (CCU), associated scientific papers and correspondence between 1961 and 1965, and press cuttings and visitors’ books from the CCU archives, in order to offer multiple readings of the relationship between humans and cold viruses at this site. These alternative post-natural histories challenge our preconceptions about the costs and benefits of living-with-viruses and the role of infection and associated symptoms in drawing lines between the normal and the pathological. The archives of the CCU offer new ways of encountering viruses and their histories, and evidence that that infection can be, as Canguilhem suggests, a “positive, innovative experience,” while at the same time questioning the novelty of recent posthumanist accounts of human-virus relations.

Employer-university cooperation: 1C interfaculty laboratory of I. N. Ulyanov Chuvash State University

The modernization of the national education creates a clear need for revision of the existing educational trajectories and close interaction between the employer and the educational institution in order to train highly qualified specialists. With all the variety of specialties and educational institutions in Russia, there is a shortage of professional staff. This trend is also typical for the IT sphere. Therefore, educational institutions need to cooperate not only with state institutions, but also with employers. The triple alliance “student — university — employer” is a stable platform for the development of young professionals. Basic departments and laboratories are created on the basis of higher education institutions through cooperation with potential employers.On March 17, 2022, there was a Strategic Partnership Agreement signed between I. N. Ulyanov Chuvash State University (ChuvSU), 1C Company and LLC “Leader Soft — Implementation Center”. The subject of this agreement was cooperation with the purpose of special training of the university students in the field of development, implementation and operation of software on the platform “1C:Enterprise” and “1C” products. Within the framework of the agreement 1C interfaculty core laboratory was created.This article explores the activities of 1C interfaculty core laboratory at ChuvSU for the year 2022. The innovative experience of partnership between the employing company and the educational institution, which will be in demand in other regions of the country, is presented on the example of creating a basic laboratory in the Chuvash university.

Managing patient loyalty through digital patient experience

This study aims at providing an understanding of the relationship between the digital experience of patients, innovation, and service quality to enhance patient loyalty to healthcare facilities in Indonesia. The data were then analyzed using the structural equation model. This study involved 214 patients at healthcare facilities in Indonesia, filling out questionnaires through an online survey. The data were analyzed using a structural equation model with Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) for the measurement model analysis. The results indicated that patient loyalty could be influenced by healthcare facilities that simultaneously implemented innovation, patient digital experience, and service quality. The novelty of this study was obtained by testing and analyzing patient digital relationships, innovation, service quality, and patient loyalty in a model, and using healthcare facilities in Indonesia as a research analysis unit. Moreover, it was compared with the health and non-health industries in other countries.

Роль инноваций в стратегическом развитии российских промышленных корпораций

In modern conditions, the strategic development of Russian industrial corporations is unthinkable without their innovative activities that require an integrated approach to implementing all types of innovations. Successful innovations provide businesses with a significant advantage over the competitors by increasing the loyalty of consumers, business partners and investors, strengthening leadership in the industry, expanding market share and developing new markets, improving corporate image and financial performance. Among the problems in the innovation activities of the Russian companies there is mentioned the slow build-up of the resource base for innovation; growth of innovation activity below normal; noticeable lagging behind European countries in terms of the specific weight of domestic innovative products; low speed of innovative developments with a steady disregard for collaboration with external partners and the purchase of ready-made new technological solutions from third party companies. It has been found that the high cost of innovations and the lack of companies' own funds for their implementation have a restraining effect on the innovation activity. Analysis of the best innovative experience of companies allowed to identify the key success factors of innovation activities that should be taken into account in solving these problems. In the list of such factors are the development of its own innovative strategy with an ambitious goal setting; an integrated approach to the implementation of innovations and the maximum use by companies of their capabilities - from generating ideas to conducting systematic work with external business partners; providing innovation with the necessary resources and creating an organizational structure that ensures a more efficient organization of the innovation process; organizing an effective innovation management system in order to rationalize it; introducing a strong corporate culture and motivation system.

Inventor CEO and technology M&A

This study examines the effect of inventor CEO on firm's technology acquisition and finds robust evidence that CEOs with hands-on innovation experience are associated with more technology acquisition. We utilize plausibly exogenous CEO turnovers to address the causal effects of inventor CEOs on corporate financial strategy such as acquisition. The effect is more pronounced in firms which CEOs have stronger power or previous acquisition experience, firms with high ownership concentration or non-state-owned firms, firms in high-tech industry or with high product market competition. Our study further shows that inventor CEOs prefer cash payment in technology acquisition and achieve higher premiums. The acquirer's future innovation output has been significantly improved after acquisition. Overall, this study contributes to the emerging literature on executives's personal unique characteristics on corporate mergers and acquisitions.

Innovation in entrepreneurship during the time of COVID-19: a scoping review of the scientific evidence from Peru

Background: Entrepreneurship involves the actions of designing, launching and managing a business that initially starts small and grows along with the human structure that integrates it. The health crisis caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) had negative effects on health, but also on business; many ventures had to innovate in order to survive in this uncertain environment. Peru is a country located in Latin America, recognized for its high levels of entrepreneurial self-efficacy, so this scooping review sought to identify the experiences of innovation in entrepreneurship in times of COVID-19 in that country. Methods: We explored the Scopus and Scielo databases for records detailing innovation in entrepreneurship in both English and Spanish. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were: published between March 11, 2020, to May 5, 2023; English, Spanish, and Portuguese language; original articles that present both quantitative and qualitative results; within Peru; articles with an assigned issue and volume number. The search results identified 5 Peruvian experiences that met the research objectives. Results: The records identified deal with innovations in social entrepreneurship, women's entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship in the educational sector, and new business tools applied during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sources where these records were disclosed were South American journals (3 cases) and conference proceedings (2 cases). The language of the articles was recorded, identifying that most of them are written in Spanish (official language of Peru). Conclusions: We recommend the regional scientific community to disseminate the results of their research in scientific journals indexed in high-level databases in order to have greater visibility.

A rocky road but worth the drive: A longitudinal qualitative study of patient innovators and researchers cocreating research.

Partnership research practices involving various stakeholder groups are gaining ground. Yet, the research community is still exploring how to effectively coproduce research together. This study describes (a) key programme developments in the creation of a 6-year partnership research programme in Sweden, and (b) explores the hopes, expectations, and experiences of patient innovators (i.e., individuals with lived experience as patients or caregivers who drive health innovations) and researchers involved in the programme during the first years. We conducted a prospective longitudinal qualitative study spanning the first 2 years of the programme. Data consisted of meeting protocols and interviews with 14 researchers and 6 patient innovators; 39 interviews were carried out in three evenly-spaced rounds. We identified significant events and discussion themes in the meeting protocols and analyzed the interviews using thematic analysis, applying a cross-sectional recurrent approach to track changes over time. Meeting protocols revealed how several partnership practices (e.g., programme management team, task forces, role description document) were cocreated, supporting the sharing of power and responsibilities among programme members. Based on the analysis of interviews, we created three themes: (1) paving the path to a better tomorrow, reflecting programme members' high expectations; (2) going on a road trip together, reflecting experiences of finding new roles and learning how to cocreate; (3) finding the tempo: from talking to doing, reflecting experiences of managing challenges and becoming productive as a team. Our findings suggest that sharing, respecting, and acknowledging each other's experiences and concerns helps build mutual trust and shape partnership practices. High expectations beyond research productivity suggest that we need to consider outcomes at different levels, from the individual to society, when evaluating the impact of partnership research. The research team included members with formal experiences as researchers and members with lived experiences of being a patient or informal caregiver. One patient innovator coauthored this paper and contributed to all aspects of the research, including the design of the study; production of data (as interviewee); interpretation of findings; and drafting the manuscript.

Attitudes Toward Surgical Innovation Research in the Pediatric Surgery Fellowship Match

IntroductionPediatric surgery applicants are increasingly pursuing research in non-traditional fields including surgical innovation. This study aims to evaluate the relative value that pediatric surgeons involved in fellow selection place on innovation experience compared to traditional research. MethodsA cross-sectional web-based survey of American Pediatric Surgical Association members involved in the selection of pediatric surgical fellows was conducted. Respondents reported their own innovation experience and were asked to identify valuable traits of applicants who completed an innovation fellowship. They rated the value of traditional research metrics including publications, presentations, and advanced degrees compared to patents and other innovation-related metrics. Comparisons were made between those with and without innovation experience with respect to gender, years in practice, and institutional role. ResultsOne hundred thirty respondents were involved in pediatric surgery fellow selection. Innovation work was felt to be equal to or more valuable than basic science by 75% of respondents (84% vs. clinical/outcomes, 93% vs. other non-traditional, 72% vs. other clinical fellowships). Commonly cited concerns included “fewer publications” (21%) and “preoccupation with financial reward” (19%). The most valuable innovation-related metrics were “developing a novel surgical procedure” (67%) and “developing a novel device” (58%). When asked if the respondent would advise a junior resident to pursue an innovation fellowship, 49% would, 9% would not, and 43% were unsure. Seventeen percent expressed concern for match success. ConclusionInnovation experience is generally viewed positively by pediatric surgeons involved in fellow selection. However, applicants and mentors would benefit from focusing on traditional academic outputs to ensure competitiveness. Type of StudyCross-sectional observational study. Level of EvidenceIII.

The dream scaffold

This article explores the concept of dreams as an imaginative scaffold in installation art and sculpture, focusing on my artistic practice. The exploration emphasizes the potential for immersive experiences that engage multiple senses, utilizing dream maps and drawing to organize and comprehend the dream world. Rooted in my current drawing and sculptural methodology, this article delves into potential connections between dreams, real places, architecture and immersive digital technologies, such as virtual reality (VR), acknowledging their remarkable capacity to enrich sculptural expression. This dynamic interplay paves the way for innovative experiences that seamlessly integrate contemporary sculpture with cutting-edge technologies, where dreams act as both raw material and structural metaphors. The resulting typologies and architectural designs, a result of the process of ‘dream hunting’, serve as the cornerstone of a burgeoning sculptural methodology, wherein architecture, landscape and topography assume vital roles, making space for the concept of the total installation to arise. Introducing the ‘dream city’ as a conclusive case study and a meta scaffolding, I propose the physical reconstruction of dreams through VR and photogrammetry, delineating their unique conceptual and ontological attributes. This ongoing project suggests that by bringing together all the aforementioned elements, an embodiment of hidden desires and profound meaning within its intricate structures comes to the surface through the dream’s perseverance in intermediated forms (drawing, sculptural objects), where identity, memory and historicity create connections to real locations and experiences. Lastly, this article serves as a reflection of an ongoing and evolving artistic practice, where I explore and develop the concept of the dream city. It serves as documentation of my progress, capturing the process of filling in the parts and uncovering the missing segments of this artistic realm.

Research on Cultural Space Reengineering in the Consolidation Process of Poverty Alleviation Achievements in Western China

The reconstruction of cultural space emphasizes the integration of cultural heritage projects from a spatial perspective, which can become a long-term mechanism to help ethnic minority areas achieve precise poverty alleviation. The achievements of poverty alleviation have proven that the good construction of government administrative mechanisms can provide political and social security for the integration of cultural heritage and industrial transformation. In the new era, in order to help the rural revitalization and development, this paper hopes to carry out the research on the necessity, feasibility and specific operation methods of cultural ecology space reconstruction integrating the government administrative mechanism based on the social and cultural functions of implicit ideological and political education to provide innovative experience summary, academic achievements and practical suggestions for poverty alleviation in the west.

Innovation and Practice of Values Education Through Curriculum in the Course of Electromagnetic Fields and Electromagnetic Waves

Values education through curriculum is popular in current Chinese higher education and plays an important role in the training of new engineering talents. For the Electromagnetic Fields and Electromagnetic Waves course, there are problems needed to be solved, such as unclear selection mechanism of values or ideological and political elements and cases, and the gap between the fixed knowledge system of classical electromagnetism and the rapid development of telecommunication technology. In this paper, the clear construction and implementation methods of values education through curriculum in this course are proposed, and the value education elements and cases are selected according to both of the actual needs of the country and social and technological development. Through the reconstruction, expansion and modularization of course content, a blended online and offline teaching method is adopted in the class of Electromagnetic Fields and Electromagnetic Waves to achieve deep integration of theory, technology, and values education. The cultivation of students' knowledge, ability, innovation, and value are emphasized in the whole teaching and learning process. Since the implementation of the values education through curriculum, the achievement of student training goals has been significantly improved, promoting the implementation of teaching reform. The mode and experiences of innovation and practice of values education through curriculum in this course is potential to promote to relevant majors nationwide.

Innovation project as a transformation process

In order to develop the economy and achieve the goals of the strategic development of the state, more and more attention is paid to the management of innovations and projects implemented on their basis. Since 2005, the main directions of the state policy in the field of science and innovation development have been approved in Russia, and since then the concept of innovation project, which combines two terms innovation and project, has become especially significant for the development of science and the Russian economy. The article provides a brief excursion into the historical formation of the term: the thoughts of the ancient Greek philosophers who became the founders of the term Aristotle, J. Schumpeter, who invested in the term the meaning of innovation, innovation, as well as creative activity, as a result of which manufacturers create a new product or service, are considered. unknown to the population or the market, or endow already known objects with new properties. The paper determines that an innovative project is a complex process, which, in turn, can be considered from three positions: as new knowledge, from the point of view of introducing innovations into practice, and as the dissemination of innovative experience in various areas of public life. This paper presents a historical digression into the concept of an innovative project. analysis of theoretical approaches to the definition of the term innovation project: a review of the definitions given by domestic and foreign authors in their research is presented, the role of innovation in modern economics is studied. Particular attention is paid to the study of the definition, essence, criteria for innovative projects in the framework of the International Standard for Project Management ISO 21500:2012. In addition, the paper considers the stages of implementation of innovative projects at the enterprise, as well as the content, characteristics, classification and features of the implementation of innovative projects within the framework of enterprises in modern economic conditions. An overview is presented on the innovation project management model, as well as statistical indicators of the implementation of innovative projects in industries and the reasons why enterprises initiate their start.

Do Science Parks Promote Companies’ Innovative Performance? Micro Evidence from Shanghai Zhangjiang National Innovation Independent Demonstration Zone

Science parks are considered to be key drivers of innovative economic activities and are important tools for countries and regions to achieve sustainable development. However, there still exists controversy about the positive effect of the science parks on the companies’ innovative performance. In this study, we constructed six hypotheses according to previous studies and tested them in the Shanghai Zhangjiang National Innovation Independent Demonstration Zone to answer two major research questions, i.e., (1) “Do science parks promote companies’ innovative performance?” and (2) “What factors in science parks affect the likelihood and intensity of companies’ innovative performance?”. Specifically, we selected 911 companies within the park and 861 companies outside the park using the coarsened exact matching method and applied the zero-inflated negative binomial model to identify the relationship between the company’s presence within the science park and the company’s innovative performance. Then, we applied the Heckman two-step model to further explore the key impact factors affecting the intensity of the innovation activities of the companies in the park. The results confirmed our first hypothesis that science parks can promote companies’ innovative performance. Moreover, we obtained two other findings. First, if a company is located within a science park, it can greatly improve the probability of innovation of that company, but it does not have any significant impact on the intensity. In other words, science parks promote more innovation among companies lacking innovation experience than those with innovation experience. Secondly, the reason why science parks can promote innovation is the knowledge spillover of innovation supporting institutions and high-tech enterprises in the parks, which is limited to a small geographical range. Our study provided new evidence on the positive role of science parks on companies’ innovative performance and offered a valuable sample for the research of science parks in developing countries. In addition, the policy suggestions we raised have reference value for developing countries to take full advantage of science parks to achieve sustainable development of their innovative economy.

Preface

With the rapid development of science and technology, the development and innovation in all domains become faster and faster. The field of materials science and intelligent manufacturing have also produced more research directions and new discoveries. Focusing on the latest research results in various aspects of that and other related fields, 2023 International Conference on Materials Science and Intelligent Manufacturing (MSIM 2023) was held via virtual form in Xi’an, China from January 13th to 15th, 2023.Our aim is to establish a forum to exchange and share successful experiences of innovation in the above fields and establish an effective cooperation platform for institutions and industries. Focusing on such topics as Electronic and Magnetic Materials, Ceramic and Glass Materials, Crystal Defect Engineering, Intelligent Mechatronics, Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Integrated Manufacturing System, etc., the Conference invited scientists, engineers, educators and students from all over the world to exchange their current technical application experience and research results, so as to promote the development of related fields.The entire Conference was in an online mode. First is an about 3 hour’s keynote speech and next 2.5 hour’s oral presentation. Discussion and Question and Answer happened went through out the meeting. The professors and delegates presented papers and researches from their own research domains and experiences. We had about 50 participants in the online platform, and had continuous stable internet connection, conducting the virtual conference smoothly.In the Conference, four renowned professors acting as keynote speakers shared their researches with us. Among them, Prof. Xiaofang Yuan from Hunan University, China, whose research domains cover Intelligent Control Theory and Application, Electric Vehicle Control, Robot Drive Control, first made a speech on 3D Map-based Path Planning for Autonomous Vehicles. In the traditional vehicle area, energy-based motion control technology and battery technology are usually employed to solve the energy-saving problem for vehicles. His research proposed a new solution from the perspective of path planning. For vehicles traveling on the complex 3D terrains, the energy consumption of up-slope is far greater than that of the flat road and down-slope. To realize this, a path with a good trade-off between the energy consumption and distance would be the expected route for electric vehicle and mining transportation. A novel multi-objective path planning method was investigated to solve this problem for EV and mining truck, generating an optimal path while saving much energy.We would like to express our gratitude to all the participants for their fruitful work and excellent contribution to MSIM 2023. Especially, we appreciate the enormous work of the editorial board and reviewers in the preparation of this volume. Also, our special thanks and appreciation go to the Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Hopefully, all participants and other interested readers can benefit scientifically from the proceedings and find it rewarding in the process.The Committee of MSIM 2023List of Committee Member is available in the pdf.

Experiences of medical device innovators as they navigate the regulatory system in Uganda.

A medical device must undergo rigorous regulatory processes to verify its safety and effectiveness while in use. In low-and middle-income countries like Uganda however, medical device innovators and designers face challenges around bringing a device from ideation to being market-ready. This is mainly attributed to a lack of clear regulatory procedures among other factors. In this paper, we illustrate the current landscape of investigational medical devices regulation in Uganda. Information about the different bodies involved in regulation of medical devices in Uganda was obtained online. Nine medical device teams whose devices have gone through the Ugandan regulatory system were interviewed to gain insights into their experiences with the regulatory system. Interviews focused on the challenges they faced, how they navigated them, and factors that supported their progress towards putting their devices on the market. We identified different bodies that are part of the stepwise regulatory pathway of investigational medical devices in Uganda and roles played by each in the regulatory process. Experiences of the medical device teams collected showed that navigation through the regulatory system was different for each team and progress towards market readiness was fuelled by funding, simplicity of device, and mentorship. Medical devices regulation exists in Uganda but is characterised by a landscape that is still in development which thereby affects the progress of investigational medical devices.

Luxury yachting in the Fiji Islands: a stakeholders' perspective

PurposeThis study explored the experiences and perceptions of stakeholders concerning luxury yachting in the Fiji Islands. It also revealed the facilities provided on luxury yachts, significant challenges faced by stakeholders in the yachting business, major luxury yacht operators and the safety measures in place for the patrons/consumers of luxury yachting.Design/methodology/approachIt employed an exploratory qualitative methodology that incorporated 16 in-depth semi-structured face-to-face interviews with stakeholders in the luxury yachting businesses via contact with superyacht agents. The interview participants for this research were selected based on a non-random sampling technique in the major marinas of the Fiji Islands (i.e. Port Denarau Marina, Copra Shed Marina, Savusavu, Royal Suva Yacht club, and Vuda marina).FindingsResults revealed that the services/facilities provided on luxury yachts are state-of-the-art; however, there is a need to integrate luxury yachting with more personalized, creative, unique and innovative experiences. Findings also suggest the need for government funding for the redevelopment/renovation of some ports and provide skill-based training for yacht employees.Originality/valueThis study contributes to filling some of the gaps in the luxury yachting literature in Fiji and sheds light on stakeholders' perceptions of the amenities offered at marinas and ports, significant challenges in the yachting industry and safety measures in place for patrons.