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Using Innovation Hubs as Global Educational Collaboration Centers: Changing the International Education Model

This paper adapts existing international educational models to address collaborative education using innovation hubs as the coordinating mechanism. Our goal is to improve global engagement and mobility of students during their educational path. In this paper, we address challenges in international education through an approach based on collaboration among universities with innovation hubs. We base our discussion on theories of organizational change and knowledge management. Qualitative data collected from three partner universities, two in Germany and one in the United States, are presented. Each had specific innovation hubs but none used these resources in a structured international context. We explore ways in which an innovation hub developed and operated by multiple international education partners might be an appropriate platform for new ways of collaboration. An innovation hub might provide a mechanism by which global partners learn in rich ways across diverse platforms, norms, and motivations. Theory grounded in organizational adaptation, open innovation and global education suggests that integrating an innovation hub with international education programs may yield effective results at the individual (students, staff, faculty) and the organizational (intellectual property, reputation, etc.) levels. Desired outcomes include creating mutual benefits through collective knowledge generation and implementation of new ideas. We conclude that implementation of this model would involve a change process, thus specific characteristics and indications for change management should be applied. We offer recommendations for implementing this model and discuss implementation options and the involvement of global partner faculty, students, and staff.

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Stationary Waves with Prescribed $L^2$-Norm for the Planar Schrödinger--Poisson System

The paper deals with the existence of standing wave solutions for the Schr\"odinger-Poisson system with prescribed mass in dimension $N=2$. This leads to investigate the existence of normalized solutions for an integro-differential equation involving a logarithmic convolution potential, namely $$ \left \{ \begin{aligned} - \Delta u & + \lambda u + \gamma \Bigl(\log {| \cdot |} * |u|^2 \Bigr) u =a |u|^{p-2} u \qquad \text{in $\mathbb R^2$,} \\ &\int_{\mathbb R^2} |u|^2 dx = c \end{aligned} \right. $$ where $c>0$ is a given real number. Under different assumptions on $\gamma \in \mathbb R$, $a \in \mathbb R$, $p>2$, we prove several existence and multiplicity results. Here $\lambda \in \mathbb R $ appears as a Lagrange parameter and is part of the unknowns. With respect to the related higher dimensional cases, the presence of the logarithmic kernel, which is unbounded from above and below, makes the structure of the solution set much richer and it forces the implementation of new ideas to catch the normalized solutions.

FORMATION OF A NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM IS A STRATEGIC PRIORITY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINIAN SOCIETY

The article analyzes the essence of an innovative society and the conditions for its formation. Varieties of innovative systems that exist at the macro, meso, micro, and local levels are considered. The content of the main theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding the essence of the national innovation system is discussed. The peculiarities of the national innovation system are analyzed. Consider the conditions of its origin and development. The role of the state in its formation is analyzed.Problem setting. One of the global characteristics of our time is the approval of innovative development as the dominant mode of social renewal, the formation of an innovative society that is not just open to innovation. It constantly generates innovations of various types and levels. Its functioning depends entirely on the speed of the introduction of new knowledge into all spheres of public life. Such a society is characterized by the growing dynamics of complex social transformations due to the intensity of development and widespread social progress. It deals with the continuous practical implementation of new ideas, inventions in the form of innovative products of labor or technologies for their creation, methods of organization and management of production to improve all qualitative and quantitative economic and other social indicators at both micro and macro levels. Recent research and publications analysis. In the scientific literature, the problems of the formation of the national innovation system are widely discussed. They are at the center of attention of well-known scholars (S. Glazyev, E. Bistritsky, I. Koval, S. Krylov, M. Mikhalchenko, L. Musina, A. Popovich, S. Prolyev, M. Rogoz, O. Starovoit, and others.).Paper objective - to provide theoretical and methodological analysis of the essence of the national innovation system, to consider the conditions of its origin and development, to analyze the role of the state in its formation.Paper main body. The formation of an innovative society is a long and complicated process, supported by the following factors: 1. consistent and long-term innovation policy of the state, with well-defined goals and objectives;2. rational use of existing innovative potential as a foundation for implementing innovation policy and the formation of an innovative society;3. strengthening cooperation between research, education and production sectors;4. targeted support of the most important areas of research and development;5. commercialization of innovations;6. attraction of foreign investments of transnational corporations;7. continuous study and implementation of best international experience in the innovative development of the economy of society as a wholeAs the experience of industrialized countries shows, the formation of an innovative society starts with the formation of a national innovation system geared towards obtaining and using new scientific knowledge, promoting the development of advanced technologies, research and development, and improving the quality of human capital. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) defines an innovation system as a set of private and public sector institutions that individually and in collaboration provides the development and dissemination of new technologiesInnovative systems are diverse. Summarizing the points of view in the scientific literature, one should highlight the innovative systems that exist at the macro, meso, micro, and local levels. At the macro level, we are talking about the global innovation system, international and transnational systems that are its components, as well as the national innovation system (NIS). On the meso-regional highlight regional innovation systems, at the micro-level - industry (cluster) innovation systems, and at the local level - the innovation system of a particular enterprise.National innovation systems of individual countries differ significantly from one another, which is manifested in the choice of priorities and objectives of innovation development, mechanisms of interaction between the private and public sectors, the importance of large and small businesses, the ratio of fundamental and applied research and development, the dynamics of development and the sectoral structure of innovation activity. Accordingly, in the world practice, several basic models of national innovation systems are distinguished: the European-American, Japanese, South-East Asian and alternative innovation system.As the world experience shows, the main role of the state in the formation of national innovation systems is to stimulate the activity of the entrepreneurial sector in the development of innovative products and the financing of innovation activities.Conclusions of the research. The most important direction of stimulation of innovative processes abroad is to provide tax privileges to scientific organizations, as well as enterprises and investors. This allows the state to stimulate innovation activity in priority sectors, to influence not only the structure and number of scientific organizations, but also the structure of production.

Capturing Social Innovations in Agricultural Transformation from the Field: Outcomes of a Write-Shop

The aim of this project was to explore the theme of social innovation for nutrition-sensitive and sustainable agriculture, resulting in examples of improved production and consumption of nutritious food. Social innovation refers to the generation and implementation of new ideas about how people organize interpersonal activities, or social interactions, to meet one or more common goals and in the process change basic routines, resources, and decision-making processes. In the country context of Myanmar, this research aimed to capture a variety of social innovation cases related to processes of agricultural transformation. Through the method of a collaborative case study write-shop, Myanmar-specific social innovations were identified, illustrating various forms of social innovation across the cases with citizen engagement processes. The write-shop method, in combination with the embedded expertise of development practitioners, proved to be a promising approach to identify niche innovations, distil insights, reframe actions, and promote critical thinking among different actors.

Large Scale 3D Airborne Electromagnetic Inversion - Recent Technical Improvements

3D airborne electromagnetic (AEM) inversion has routinely been applied to frequency and time-domain problems over the past few years, however this research field continues to undergo rapid improvements with the implementation of new ideas and faster computational resources. To keep pace with these developments, we have rewritten our 3D AEM inversion software suite to leverage the rapid growth in parallel processing, and to create a flexible inversion framework capable of standard inversion plus many additional types: joint, cooperative or parametric, all on semi-structured octree meshes. Our resulting framework further improves recent key ideas such as the decoupling of forward meshes from the inverse mesh, to allow the forward problem to be easily distributed on separate nodes of a cluster for fast and efficient modelling of the fields.We present two large-scale field examples, one in the frequency domain and one in the time domain. The frequency domain survey demonstrates our ability to recover thin conductors, in this case representing orogenic gold targets, across a large region (40km x 35km). The time domain example focuses on a smaller area within a larger survey area where mapping groundwater resources is the primary goal. Here the fine-scale results are compared to a 1D inversion, and we see a good correlation between the 3D and 1D results due to an approximately 1D layered-earth environment. However we see a removal of 1D artifacts in the neighbourhood of vertical conductors and topographic changes in the 3D result with the added bonus of information between lines in which decisions regarding groundwater management can be made.

The temporal pattern of creativity and implementation in teams

Two broad sets of activities underlie team innovation: the creation and the implementation of new ideas. Despite the prevalence of this distinction, the temporal dynamics of creativity and implementation in teams and their relation to successful team innovation are not well understood. Building on and integrating linear phase models and complexity perspectives on the innovation process, we propose a temporal pattern of creativity and implementation that is linked to team innovation. We examine this temporal pattern in a longitudinal study of 76 project teams. Results show that teams engage in creativity throughout the entire life cycle of team projects; however, innovative teams refrain from focusing on implementation in early time frames and increase their focus on implementation over the course of the project. Episodes of unconstrained creativity in early time frames of a project appear to be a critical factor for team innovation. Our research provides a foundation for future research on team innovation that explicitly considers the temporal interplay of creativity and implementation.Practitioner points Creativity is a critical factor for team innovation that is relevant not only in the beginning of a team project but throughout its entire life cycle. Teams achieve innovative outcomes if they refrain from focusing on implementation early on and instead allow for prolonged episodes of unconstrained creativity. Innovative teams pay attention to the timing of implementation activities and increase their focus on implementation around the mid‐point of a project.

Conceptual Approach to Forming the Basic Code of Neo-Industrial Development of a Region

In the article, the authors propose the conceptual fundamentals of the “code approach†to the regional neo-industrial development. The purpose of the research is to reveal the essence of the transition to a new type of industrial and economic relations through a prism of “genetic codes†of the region. We consider these codes as a system of the “racial memory†of a territory, which determines the specificity and features of neo-industrialization realization. We substantiated the hypothesis about the influence of the “genetic codes†of the region on the effectiveness of the neo-industrialization. We have defined the participants, or else the carriers of the codes in the transformation of regional inheritance for the stimulation of the neoindustrial development of region’s economy. The subject matter of the research is the distinctive features of the functioning of the determinative region’s codes. Their content determines the socio-economic specificity of the region and the features of innovative, informational, value-based and competence-based development of the territory. The determinative codes generate the dynamic codes of the region, which are understood as their derivatives. They have a high probability of occurrence, higher speed of development and distribution, internal forces that make possible the self-development of the region. The scientific contribution is the substantiation of the basic code of the regional neo-industrial development. It represents the evolutionary accumulation of the rapid changes of its innovative, informational, value-based and competence-based codes stimulating the generation and implementation of new ideas regarding to economic entities adapted to the historical and cultural conditions. The article presents the code model of neo-industrial development of the region described by formulas. We applied the system analysis methods, historical and civilization approaches, evolutionary and institutional theory, economic and mathematical methods. Moreover, in the article, the authors presented the findings for the period 2011–2016 reflecting the empirical estimation of the importance of informational, institutional, innovative, value-based and competence-based codes. We made this estimation through the survey of population, representatives of business and authorities, students, as well as the professors of the leading universities of the Ural Federal District. The focus of the recommendations for the region is the acceleration of the transition to the new type of industrial development. The research results can be used when developing the programmes and projects of neo- and reindustrialization at both federal and regional levels.

‘The costumes don’t do it for me’: Obstacles to the translation of ‘new’ management ideas

It has been argued that management support is important to successfully translate new management ideas into practice. Through focusing on the obstacles to the translation of a management guru text in a manufacturing organisation, we point towards a far more uncertain situation. First, we explore the paradoxical situation of engaged managers undermining the implementation of new ideas. Second, we consider how attempts to use humour to aid translation may generate a variety of unintended employee translations. Third, we examine how the objects that management enlist to support translation can thwart change. It has been argued that ‘technological’ and ‘textual’ objects exercise agency through making humans act in intended ways. Into this mix, we add ‘cultural’ objects (in our case costumes) and argue that while they exercise agency, the outcomes they produce may hinder managerial designs.

Разработка стратегий социально-экономического развития: наука vs идеология

Strategies for socio-economic development in catching-up countries are designed on the basis of ideologies dominated in the society and, as a rule, fail. Until recently, economic science could not offer an alternative basis for designing strategies, but over the past twenty years the situation has changed. Nevertheless, scientific results are still weakly demanded by society. In this paper, the conflict between economics and dominant ideology is explored. On the one hand, ideology restrains the development of scientific research, and on the other hand it is changing under its influence. However, these changes are very slow for a number of reasons, analyzed in the paper. Ideology is inevitably connected with the interests of economic agents. The old elite prevents the emergence of a new ideology, since new concepts reveal the mistakes of past projects. In addition, the implementation of new ideas may require institutional changes that weaken the power of existing high-ranking officials. Meanwhile, in modern societies there are no regular mechanisms providing such transformations, and the probability of rational volitional decisions, which confront the dominant ideology, is small.

Social innovation and Smart Specialisation: Challenges and Opportunities for Atlantic Regions

Social innovation is a concept that has been widely used, both in academic and political discourse, and implies the development and implementation of new ideas to meet explicit or latent social needs using shared and co-produced knowledge. It is a phenomenon whose analysis has increased considerably in the last decade but, nevertheless, some conceptual overlaps and fragmentations still persist. This is a cross-cutting trend in innovation studies. This highlight the need to develop a more multilevel approach to innovation. Smart specialisation strategies are an example of this type of multilevel approach and require the identification of strategic domains that anchor the economic and social development of the regions. This development must also meet the specific needs of each territory. This article starts from the analysis of five Atlantic regions to understand how the social innovation dimension is present in the strategies of smart specialization. The results suggest that while there is an effort to integrate social innovation as a strategic priority, innovation trends are still largely based on the development of high technology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31637/epsir.17-2.4

Commonalities and Particularities of PSS Design Process and Design Thinking

Shifting from product-oriented business models to product-service systems (PSS) requires changes and implementation of new ideas related to many business dimensions, such as cultural, procedural, financial, and technological. Searching for new solutions requires creativity. Therefore, the application of a design thinking (DT) approach might help companies in finding innovative value propositions for PSS. DT has the potential to support PSS design processes, even though some practitioners may see DT as a substitute to formalized PSS design processes. In order to understand if and how DT can be used in combination with PSS design process models, this work proposes to identify what are the commonalities and particularities of them. The descriptions of DT methodologies and PSS design process models were treated as a structured content corpus, which was divided in comparable activities based on corpus linguistics and frame semantics. The main findings show that DT is effectively a support and not a replacement to the PSS design process, representing greater integration opportunities with the front-end of innovation (FEI). The detailing and implementation phases of PSS design process have no intersections with DT methodologies, even though DT can be employed whenever creativity is needed.

Emulating models of good governance: learning from the developments of the world's least corrupt countries

This article discusses three success stories of good governance, those in Finland, New Zealand and Singapore, and their ability to serve as benchmarks or models for developing countries seeking to eradicate corruption. The analysis shows that Finland and New Zealand are evolutionary cases with low-profile anti-corruption policies, whereas Singapore is a revolutionary case with an array of institutionalised anti-corruption measures providing a fast track to good governance. At first glance the latter case may appear appealing to developing countries, but in the current economic situation the case of Singapore is difficult to replicate as diminishing growth prospects undermine the viability of this option. In this sense the balance naturally leans towards the evolutionary 'social change' model, which is a cost-effective though slow path towards good governance. Whatever the preferred development path, it is vital that developing countries emulate and adapt success stories on their own terms. This ensures a sufficient degree of ownership and justification for the context-sensitive adjustment, dissemination and implementation of new ideas for controlling corruption.

Using the ‘Engagement’ Model of Problem Solving to Assist Students in Capstone Learning

The engagement model for problem solving was developed as a response to soft systems methodology being difficult to implement in certain circumstances. In the years since the original paper was published, the model has developed into an iterative problem solving approach for the assessment, creation and implementation of new ideas in difficult problem situations. This case study paper exemplifies the kind of work undertaken through the use of the model and provides a practical scenario for how one might apply it. The case study takes place in a higher education environment and relates to the development of a capstone course for management majors. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research.

Бенчмаркінг і фандрайзинг як засоби трансформації та інтенсифікації розвитку вітчизняної ветеринарної науки

The article deals with concepts such as benchmarking and fundraising, as well as the problem of financing the national veterinary science. Ukraine has a high level of intellectual capacity, but under current conditions it is not able to fully implement it, turn in the finished product and get economic benefits. Need effective management system. For decades overdue modernization of the national veterinary science requires the establishment of an effective system to develop, analyze, test and implement changes that will lead to improvement. This requires an organized and systematic approach, and time and resources. As they say - is powerless therapy required surgery! And preferably operative! One of the products of evolution of global management, benchmarking has become as one of management. Benchmarking - a systematic activity aimed at finding, analysis, evaluation and implementation of the best forms of any business. It can be regarded as one of the most important areas strategically focused market research. This alternative method of strategic planning in which tasks are determined not to have reached you, and by analyzing the performance of competitors. Striving to be the best of the best, captures the essence of benchmarking. There are many types of benchmarking, but internal benchmarking should be the starting point. Major errors in this process - not to notice the real reason why some organization works better than yours and lack of adequate preparation for such activities. The implementation of new ideas requires resources. This includes the implementation process benchmarkenhu in veterinary research units. More and more organizations in our country are trying to obtain such funds through grants. Therefore, an active fundraising activities and special person - or fundraisers Fundraising Manager. Because fundraising is largely dependent on whether the person has professional skills and she believes what is trying to convince others. Currently fundraising activities in Ukraine is in its infancy in this area, including in the field of veterinary medicine, few professionals with special training and experience of fundraising that can effectively attract resources into objects of veterinary science. And this situation should be urgently corrected. You must enter a state for each veterinary scientific institution position fundraisers - professional (scientist-manager) who, after a thorough study be supervised by national and international grants and should have adequate material and moral motivation of their activities.

Risk identification in product innovation projects: new perspectives and lessons learned

ABSTRACTThe paper addresses the improvement of innovation project (IP) risk identification by applying the RBS (Risk Breakdown Structure) method, and represents a follow-up analysis of the subject (a case of IP before and after applying the method). The activities of risk identification are an initial phase in most of risk management processes and classifications. High-level risk-taking is one of the key characteristics of IPs, due to the fact that this type of projects is related to implementation of new ideas. An example illustrates the combination of RBS/WBS for evaluating the risk concentration, called Risk Breakdown Matrix. This research has proven that implementation of the presented approach in the context of the Serbian market can improve efficiency of all phases of the project, especially those related to planning phase.

A Social-Exchange Perspective on Supply Chain Innovation

Supply chain innovation has become all the more important in today's competitive world. Supply chain innovation is the development of newer technologies and procedures along with implementation of new ideas of products and services through necessary supply chain activities. As supply chains are network of inter-connected firms; hence the importance of relational and social exchange attributes like trust, commitment, reciprocity and power are paramount in developing supply chain capabilities. The current investigation adopts a social exchange perspective and investigates the importance of trust, commitment, reciprocity and power on integration of logistics capabilities and their subsequent role in developing supply chain innovation. As supply chain innovation aims to provide better performance implications for the focal firm; the impact of supply chain innovation on firm performance was also explored using a service perspective. Data collected through a web-based survey from 173 logistics and supply chain professionals largely support the proposed relationships.

Policy, entrepreneurship, creativity and sustainability: The case of ‘Principi Attivi’ (‘Active Ingredients’) in Apulia Region (southern Italy)

The present work assesses the case of ‘Principi Attivi’ (‘Active Ingredients’). This is a policy initiative of the Apulia Region in southern Italy to support new start-ups of young entrepreneurs. Since 2010, the year of green revolution 2.0, entrepreneurship remains active and competitive in the globalised world through sustainable innovation initiatives. If innovation is the successful implementation of new ideas, then creativity can be seen as the seed of innovation. Inspired by these arguments and the case of Principi Attivi (‘Active Ingredients’), the present work adds new insights to the current debate and investigates the relationships between creativity and sustainability from supply and demand side perspectives. In particular, this paper addresses the following aims: i) On the demand side, we question how creativity relates to sustainability through entrepreneurship. To reach this aim we employ a cluster analysis and a network meta-analysis (NMA) approach to determine the existence of latent relationships between creativity and sustainability within the project proposals submitted to ‘Principi Attivi’ (‘Active Ingredients’). ii) To understand, on the demand side, what are the main factors affecting the allocation of regional funding for young entrepreneurs; and iii) To determine, on the supply side, to what extent creativity and sustainability proposals influence the outcome of the selection process. To reach aims ii) and iii) we use a probabilistic model to infer data on the probability of project proposals to be admitted to regional funding. Main results suggests: (i) the existence of latent relationships between creativity and sustainability in business initiatives; (ii) the potential propensity of the decision maker to support ‘green’ entrepreneurship and larger groups of young entrepreneurs; (iii) the limited influence (almost non-existent) on the decision maker of creativity and sustainability proposals during the evaluation process. The present work point us to assert the persistence of asymmetric information between the young entrepreneur and the policy maker. Adequate initiatives are needed to close this gap to help foster creativity and sustainability-driven entrepreneurship.

Practice architectures and sustainable curriculum renewal

While there are numerous pedagogical innovations and varying forms of professional learning to support change, teachers rarely move beyond the initial implementation of new ideas and policies and few innovations reach the institutionalized stage. Building on both site ontologies and situated learning in communities of practice perspectives, this paper explores the theory of practice architectures to offer a different and legitimate perspective on sustainable curriculum renewal. Specifically, a practice architecture either enables or constrains particular practice and constitutes the construction of practice from semantic (e.g. language), social (e.g. power relations) and physical (e.g. materials) spaces. Through the juxtaposition of practice architectures with an empirical illustration of longer term pedagogical change, the paper argues that for pedagogical change to be sustained a practice architecture that relates to an innovation’s intended learning outcomes and the contexts in which an innovation can be used needs to be created. Consequently, the theory of practice architectures can guide reform programmes. Curricularists can begin programmes with a pre-planned approach to assist, (a) teachers’ understanding of how to use an innovation, and (b) the deconstruction and reconstruction of practice architectures to support an innovation’s survival.

Entrepreneurial Team Creativity: Driving Innovation from Ideation to Implementation

Innovation in entrepreneurial firms is influenced by team creative processes. This study investigates how perceptions of team creativity lead to the generation, promotion and implementation of new ideas and opportunities for the enterprise, increasing the firm’s innovation performance. The results of the study of respondents across industries disclose how teams develop ideas and solutions, and turn them into new opportunities for the organization. Creativity and innovation have been widely studied, yet few studies have focused on entrepreneurial team creative practices in pursuit of new ideas for business development. This study contributes to our understanding of the team behaviors that lead to the formation of new and useful ideas that are promoted and implemented to bring benefits to the team, organization, and marketplace.