Industry Alliance Research Articles

Notes on a brilliant failure

The article “Ernest Lawrence’s brilliant failure” by Joshua Roebke (Physics Today, March 2019, page 32) gives a historical account of early work by the Nobel recipient and his associates at the University of California, Berkeley, to invent color TV. An alumnus of both Berkeley and the TV industry (1964–2006), I was surprised and pleased to learn of that work. I had not realized that Sony’s Trinitron technology traces its origin back to Berkeley and Lawrence.However, I was shocked by several inaccuracies. The article is misleading regarding the basic principles of the color CRT (cathode-ray tube), and it does not present an accurate account of the pre-flat-panel display industry.The article claims that Sony’s Trinitron CRT was the best-selling television in the world and was the color TV most Americans grew up with. That is incorrect. From the beginning of color broadcasting in 1954 to the mid 2000s, RCA’s color CRT was the dominant one.Sony’s Trinitron was commercially introduced in 1968, 14 years after the start of the color TV industry. Virtually no other company manufactured color TVs with Trinitron displays. During the pre-flat-panel color TV era, Sony sold fewer than 300 million color TVs with Trinitrons; the rest of the industry globally sold well over 10 times as many sets with the RCA color CRT. Although RCA only manufactured in the US, it licensed its technology abroad; in several cases RCA provided direct engineering support for licensees’ manufacturing plants. All color TV manufacturers worldwide, including Sony, were RCA licensees.11. J. A. Castellano, SID Symp. Dig. Tech. Pap. 30, 356 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1889/1.1834031A. Monchamp et al., Cathode Ray Tube Manufacturing and Recycling: Analysis of Industry Survey, Electronic Industries Alliance (2001).The fundamental physical principles of the Sony and RCA color CRTs were identical. Both used three intensity-modulated electron guns to carry the three-color image information. Contrary to the article, the Trinitron did not use a single source for the three beams.The beams were scanned by a common magnetic deflection system. In both the Sony and the RCA devices, a metal mask with small openings was placed at a precise distance between the screen and the electron guns. The beams emerged from each opening at slightly different angles and landed on the screen at three slightly displaced, nonoverlapping locations, where a trio of red, green, and blue light-emitting phosphor elements were positioned. To prevent the excitation of adjacent phosphor elements, the mask transmission is necessarily restricted to less than ⅓.The Sony and RCA approaches used differently shaped masks. Sony’s was made of tensioned metal strips forming a vertical standing cylinder. RCA’s mask was best described as spherical. Thus the Sony guns were arranged horizontally, whereas the RCA ones had a triangle configuration. Both systems worked well. The price of color TVs was determined by the cost of the CRTs, which was mainly driven by the cost of their glass bulbs. Because the RCA approach was somewhat less expensive, it dominated the consumer market.ReferenceSection:ChooseTop of pageReference <<CITING ARTICLES1. J. A. Castellano, SID Symp. Dig. Tech. Pap. 30, 356 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1889/1.1834031, Google ScholarCrossrefA. Monchamp et al., Cathode Ray Tube Manufacturing and Recycling: Analysis of Industry Survey, Electronic Industries Alliance (2001). , Google Scholar© 2019 American Institute of Physics.

ONE SEA – ON THE ROAD TOWARDS AN AUTONOMOUS MARITIME TRANSPORT SYSTEM

Increased automation in the form of remote-controlled and partially autonomous operations are being tested around the world. This development is expected to create safer, more efficient, sustainable, and reliable maritime logistics chains that will enable more efficient ways of transport globally. Much of the digital transformation is happening in ecosystems. The maritime transformation and development are also collaborative efforts, as no single entity can make the transformation by themselves. One Sea is the leading industrial alliance in maritime autonomy that seeks to enable an autonomous maritime ecosystem by 2025. The alliance, founded in 2016, gathers together globally leading maritime actors, from equipment manufactures to ship owners and ICT companies. The paper introduces One Sea and its activities and the steps towards safe autonomous and remote-controlled maritime operations. It also addresses the recent achievements and practical examples of what One Sea partner companies have done in maritime autonomy.

DETERMINANT EFFICIENCY OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN EMERGING MARKET

The aim of this research is to analyze the determinants of non-bank financial institution efficiency. The non-bank financial industry is one of the main contributors to Indonesia economic growth during the last 15 years. The non-bank financial industry will the consumer finance company industry. The panel data used in this research is from 2001-2016.The non-bank financial industry is also measured as one the fastest raising industries in the last 16 years. Thesixmain financial ratios and related industry alliance impact the determinants of finance companies’ efficiency. The financial ratios are firm size, capital structure, equity, asset ratio, income to total assets and cost to total assets. The empirical results show that the determinants of non-bank financial institution are income to total assets and cost to total assets.

P4764Relationship of the duration of pulmonary vein isolation-refractory non-paroxysmal atrial fibrillation to the middle- to long-term outcome of the ExTRa Mapping-guided ablation

Abstract Introduction It is reported that for patients with non-paroxysmal (persistent or long-standing persistent) atrial fibrillation (Non-PAF), extended ablation to atrial walls in addition to pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) did not improve the long-term outcome. On the other hand, modulation of Non-PAF drivers (or perpetuators) has been proposed as one of the alternative effective ablation strategies for Non-PAF. Purpose To clarify whether the rotor ablation under online real-time high-density phase mapping system is effective for PVI-refractory Non-PAF ablation. Methods Under such circumstances, our academic group had recently developed the online real-time high-density phase mapping system (ExTRa Mapping™) by industrial alliance. The phase map moving images were based on 41 intra-atrial bipolar signals recorded by a 20-pole spiral-shaped catheter (2.5 cm in diameter) and on in silicorapid prediction of spatio-temporal atrial excitations (artificial intelligence system). Then we applied the ExTRa Mapping to clinical practice in order to directly visualize rotors in patients with Non-PAF, and investigated the middle- to long-term outcome of the ExTRa Mapping-guided rotor ablation (ExTRa-ABL). Results Thirty-eight patients (63±8 y/o, 30 males) with Non-PAF demonstrating refractoriness to PVI were enrolled in this study. Ablation for cavo-tricuspid isthmus and/or superior vena cava isolation was additionally performed at physicians' discretion. After these procedures, the ExTRa-ABL was performed in order to modify Non-PAF substrates, causing rotor control. The modification of the rotors was evaluated by re-mapping with the use of the ExTRa Mapping at the end of each ablation session. Patients were followed at 1, 3, 6 months and every year after the procedure. All of them were followed for 21±8 months. During the follow-up period, Non-PAF was recurred in only 8 of 38 (21%). Furthermore, we found if PVI-refractory Non-PAF duration was shorter than 6 years, the non-recurrence rate remained ≥80% (see Figure), which was markedly better outcome comparing with previous reports with regard to Non-PAF ablation. Figure 1 Conclusion Comparing with conventional Non-PAF ablation strategies, our novel approach with the use of the online real-time high-density phase mapping system might improve medium- to long-term outcome of PVI-refractory Non-PAF treatment.

Personnel training for the developing nuclear power industry

The article briefly describes the history of training personnel for the nuclear industry and sets tasks for its improvement and development to ensure the future growth of this industry. Within the framework of the emerging digital economy, such a phenomenon as digital platforms erases the boundaries between industries, forming new unexpected industrial alliances, even new industries. Innovative activities in the power industry, including nuclear power, should provide the possibility of forming digital economic platforms in various energy segments as well as training personnel in using this new toolkit. Today, the Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation is developing more than 30 projects of new nuclear power plants (NPP) in Russia and 12 other countries. This requires educational support, and for this purpose a Consortium of supporting universities of the Rosatom State Corporation was established, which includes 18 specialized higher educational institutions. More than half of them train personnel directly for designing, constructing and operating NPPs. The scale of the necessary personnel training in the near future indicates that we need a new “educational paradigm”, which can be described as “front-line education”, i.e., training personnel for developing digital economy technologies simultaneously along the entire “front”. This “front” stretches from schoolchildren preparing to enter universities to production personnel whose professional development should be carried out taking into account the specifics of the digital transformation of production. Partnership is one of the leading values of the modern young generation. To withstand high competition for the best personnel, organizations must not only be saturated with the culture of partnership from the inside but also act as reliable partners for one another in involving and training young employees.

Study on the Strategic Innovation and Industrial Development Effect of Marine Industry

Yang, L., and Hou, G.-S., 2019. Study on the Strategic Innovation and Industrial Development Effect of Marine Industry. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R(eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 581–584. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.The marine breeding and healthy aquaculture industry in Shandong Peninsula should seek breakthroughs in three aspects: the transformation of production mode, the combination of production, education and research technological innovation. The marine high-end equipment manufacturing industry should focus on the industrial chain restructuring and industrial clusters. With the innovation of industrial organization mode as the main body, we seek to improve the ability of independent innovation through various forms of technological innovation activities.The development of the marine bio-pharmaceutical industry should do a good job in integrating and upgrading the biotechnology industrial park and creating an industrial technology innovation alliance.

Federated Tensor Mining for Secure Industrial Internet of Things

In a vertical industry alliance, Internet of Things (IoT) deployed in different smart factories are similar. For example, most automobile manufacturers have the similar assembly lines and IoT surveillance systems. It is common to observe the industrial knowledge using deep learning and data mining methods based on the IoT data. However, some knowledge is not easy to be mined from only one factory's data because the samples are still few. If multiple factories within an alliance can gather their data together, more knowledge could be mined. However, the key concern of these factories is the data security. Existing matrix-based methods can guarantee the data security inside a factory but do not allow the data sharing among factories, and thus their mining performance is poor due to lack of correlation. To address this concern, in this article we propose the novel federated tensor mining (FTM) framework to federate multisource data together for tensor-based mining while guaranteeing the security. The key contribution of FTM is that every factory only needs to share its ciphertext data for security issue, and these ciphertexts are adequate for tensor-based knowledge mining due to its homomorphic attribution. Real-data-driven simulations demonstrate that FTM not only mines the same knowledge compared with the plaintext mining, but also is enabled to defend the attacks from distributed eavesdroppers and centralized hackers. In our typical experiment, compared with the matrix-based privacy-preserving compressive sensing (PPCS), FTM increases up to 24% on mining accuracy.

The Spatial Pattern of Ski Areas and Its Driving Factors in China: A Strategy for Healthy Development of the Ski Industry

The development of ski areas would bring socio-economic benefits to mountain regions. At present, the ski industry in China is developing rapidly, and the number of ski areas is increasing dramatically. However, the understanding of the spatial pattern and driving factors for these ski areas is limited. This study collected detailed data about ski areas and their surrounding natural and economic factors in China. Criteria for classification of ski areas were proposed, and a total of 589 alpine ski areas in China were classified into three types: ski resorts for vacationing (va-ski resorts), ski areas for learning (le-ski areas) and ski parks to experience skiing (ex-ski parks), with proportions of 2.1%, 15.4% and 82.5%, respectively, which indicated that the Chinese ski industry was still dominated by small-sized ski areas. The overall spatial patterns of ski areas were clustered with a nearest neighbor indicator (NNI) of 0.424, in which ex-ski parks and le-ski areas exhibited clustered distributions with NNIs of 0.44 and 0.51, respectively, and va-ski resorts were randomly distributed with an NNI of 1.04. The theory and method of spatial autocorrelation were first used to analyze the spatial pattern and driving factors of ski areas. The results showed that ski areas in cities had a positive spatial autocorrelation with a Moran’s index value of 0.25. The results of Local Indications of Spatial Association (LISA) showed that ski areas were mainly concentrated in 3 regions: the Beijing-centered Yanshan-Taihang Mountains and Shandong Hill areas, the Harbin-centered Changbai Mountain areas and the Urumqi-centered Tianshan-Altay Mountain areas. The first location was mainly driven by socio-economic factors, and the latter two locations were mainly driven by natural factors. Ski tourism in China still faces many challenges. The government sector should strengthen supervision, develop a ski industry alliance, and promote the healthy and sustainable development of the ski industry in the future.

PNS133 POLICIES TO IMPROVE AMR PRACTICES: AN INDUSTRY AND HCP PERSPECTIVE

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to global public health. In the last five years, governments across the world have been developing initiatives alongside the pharmaceutical industry to tackle AMR through ‘responsible use’ policy interventions. We reviewed the current initiatives targeted towards the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare professionals (HCPs) to evaluate the impact they have had in tackling AMR. A structured literature search of online sources was conducted to find publications relating to educational campaigns implemented by governments and industry to tackle AMR. Searches were limited from 2013–present. Several HCP-targeted initiatives have been introduced by government bodies in recent years, including the ‘Antibiotic Guardian’ behavioural change campaign. The campaign was launched in 2014 and aims to increase commitment from HCPs and the public to reduce AMR through online pledges. After initial success in the UK, the programme has been expanded across many other European countries. The campaign has been qualitatively evaluated in several studies and found to be effective in increasing commitment of HCPs and the public to reduce AMR. The pharmaceutical industry is also developing initiatives and investing in reducing AMR on a larger scale. The AMR Industry Alliance comprises of over 100 life sciences companies, across 20 countries worldwide. These companies have partnered to reduce the development of AMR, invest in R&D to meet global public health needs and improve access to high-quality antibiotics. In the last five years, governments, industry and HCPs have operated at different levels of the healthcare system to develop education programmes like ‘Antibiotic Guardians’ to have a positive impact on reducing AMR. Although the long-term impacts of these educational campaigns have yet to be evaluated, short term outcomes demonstrate that campaign engagement results in positive behavioural changes towards antibiotic use.

Стратегические альянсы: возможности для инноваций и эффекты для конкуренции

The study is dedicated to answering the question of what effects, related to which factors, should be taken into account when evaluating the integral effect of a strategic alliance in a knowledge-intensive industry for competition. Features of R &amp; D can significantly affect the public reaction to the desire of companies to cooperate - even if the intended merger will lead to monopolization of the market. Although the problem of the influence of alliances on competition is widely covered, there are quite a few works exploring the impact of cooperation between companies in the field of research and development on social welfare in general. An original model was proposed, based both on the standard prerequisites for such work and on the prerequisites that were rarely included in the models devoted to strategic alliances: the conclusion of a contract for the development of a specific project and the launch of a new product on the market, the asymmetry of investment processes in companies, the possibility of reaching the market at once two solutions.Using my model, I found out that there are hypothetically such circumstances in which a strategic alliance, even if it leads to collusion, can increase social welfare and be desirable for society.

The structure and proximity mechanism of formal innovation networks: Evidence from Shanghai high‐tech ITISAs

AbstractThe discussion on innovation networks of patents or papers has attracted many economic geographers; however, the Industrial Technology Innovation Strategy Alliance (ITISA) has been ignored, although it is also an important innovation form of firms, and the formation mechanism of alliance innovation networks is unclear. This study is based on the data of Shanghai high‐tech ITISAs between 2010 and 2015, and employs the methods of social networks and negative binomial regression to analyse the actor structure, spatial structure, and proximity mechanism of innovation networks of Shanghai high‐tech ITISAs. Results highlight the following: (a) Firms comprise the largest number of actors in alliance innovation networks, and universities, research institutions, and industry associations also play some roles. (b) The local and rooted characteristics of the innovation networks of ITISAs are obvious. The spatial distribution of innovation partners is mainly in Shanghai, and a few innovation actors are located in neighbouring cities, such as Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Ningbo in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration. (c) Proximity significantly promotes the formation of innovation networks in an ITISA and contributes to the improvement of innovation ability, and organizational proximity plays a greater role than geographical proximity or cognitive proximity.

Adaptive Autonomous Technology in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Parcel Delivery

An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (often called a Drone) is an aircraft that is not operated by a pilot on board. Drones are rapidly growing market and increasingly leverage. The Applications of these flying robots are limitless. This paper reviews and discusses about embedded vision and sensor technology which culminates in several innovative applications over drones. It introduces an industry alliance available to help product creators incorporate robust vision capabilities into their drones designs. This paper mainly deals on Autonomous Delivery of light weighted items along with the collision avoidance technology and also tracks the whereabouts of the vehicle in a cost effective approach. This can also be used for carrying out complex assignments such as rescue operations during disasters, mines surveying.

Graphene's potential in the future industrial development of China

The Chinese government attaches great importance to the development of strategic emerging industries and has introduced a number of policies and measures to promote the innovation. One nanotechnology material, known as graphene, has long been regarded as one of the most promising technologies. One purpose of stimulating the graphene industry is to promote diversification of nano carbon technology and advance the industrialization and marketization. This paper first reviews the current situation of the Chinese graphene industrial development from the aspect of resource endowment, technical condition, cost price, industrial alliance and pilot demonstration, etc. and further analyzes the policy environment with respect to the development plan and industrial regulation. Based on the current situation description, the paper then discusses the internalities (5 strengths and 5 weaknesses) and the externalities (3 opportunities and 4 threats) that have driven the graphene's potential development in China by illustrating the SWOT analysis. Through the analysis, some research conclusions and policy proposals are finally put forward to provide guiding idea for the Chinese graphene sector.

Intermodal Air-Rail Agreements: Legal Aspects and Considerations

Intermodal air-rail forms of cooperation have proliferated over the last decades as a response to the need for more efficient and strategic alliance in the transportation industry. Airlines and rail operators have indeed concluded formal agreements allowing them to synchronize services and offer an ever more seamless travel experience. While such agreements certainly generate significant benefits for both consumers and carriers, integration between airlines and rail operators may also raise serious concerns as to the applicable legal framework. In light of this, the present article will emphasize on the main legal implications of air-rail agreements. The analysis will consider three areas of interest, namely, competition law, liability and passenger protection. Whereas in terms of competition law, the same legal categories applicable to airline code-shares and alliances may be easily and conceptually borrowed, peculiar and interesting legal issues seem to arise out of the comparison of different international and European legal regimes with respect to liability and passenger protection.

Collaborations of Industry, Academia, Research and Application Improve the Healthy Development of Medical Imaging Artificial Intelligence Industry in China.

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has developed rapidly in the field of medical imaging. However, the collaborations among hospitals, research institutes and enterprises are insufficient at the present, and there are various issues in technological transformation and value landing of products in this area. To solve the core problems in the developmental path of medical imaging AI, the Chinese Innovative Alliance of Industry, Education, Research and Application of Artificial Intelligence for Medical Imaging compiled the White Paper on Medical Image AI in China. This article introduces the current status of collaboration, the clinical demands for medical imaging AI technique, and the key points in AI technology transformation: robustness, usability and security. We are facing challenges of lacking industry standards, data desensitization standard, assessment system, as well as corresponding regulations and policies to realize the application values of AI products in medical imaging. Further development of AI in medical imaging requires breakthroughs of the core algorithm, deep involvement of doctors, input from capitals, patience from societies, and most importantly, the resolutions from government for multiple difficulties in links of landing the technology.

Effects of addition of Sc2O3 on microstructure and dielectric properties of BaTiO3-based X8R MLCCs

This study investigated the changes in dielectric properties of the disc capacitor and base metal electrode (BME) multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) fabricated from the host material (BaTiO3 + 1.0 mol% MgO + 0.05 mol% MnCO3 + 1.37 mol% BaSiO3) with different amounts of Sc2O3 addition. The results of transmission electron microscope (TEM) analysis verified that the addition of 0.6 mol% Sc2O3 led to the formation of a grain core–shell structure. The formation of the grain core–shell structure can improve the temperature stability of the dielectric properties. The presence of Sc2O3 can increase the room-temperature insulation resistance and reduce dielectric loss (tanδ); however, an excessive addition of Sc2O3 resulted in the decline of the insulating property of MLCCs at a high temperature. This study revealed that the temperature coefficient of the capacitance (TCC) curves can be flattened by adding 0.3–0.6 mol% Sc2O3 into the host material so that the developed BME MLCCs can comply with the requirements of the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) X8R specification. In particular, the MLCC with 0.3 mol% Sc2O3 addition had satisfactory TCC stability and insulating properties; the dielectric constant was 2084, tanδ was 1.23%, the TCC at −55 °C and 150 °C was −2.8% and −5.8%, respectively, and the insulation resistance at −55 °C and 150 °C was 3.6 × 1010 Ω and 2.6 × 107 Ω, respectively.

Strategic Alliances in Knowledge-Intensive Industries: An Integrated View

In this study, we examine strategic alliances between large pharmaceutical companies (LPCs) and new biotechnology firms (NBFs) in the knowledge-intensive biopharmaceutical industry in the light of two explanations for the motives behind R&amp;D alliances, namely, the transaction cost explanation and the learning with flexibility explanation. We develop a series of propositions based on an integrated view of the motives behind strategic alliances in knowledge-based industries.

A Marketing and Industrial Relations Alliance to Generate Positive Brand Awareness for Gen Y: The Case of the National Tertiary Education Union

A Marketing and Industrial Relations Alliance to Generate Positive Brand Awareness for Gen Y: The Case of the National Tertiary Education Union

Public attitudes towards marine aquaculture in Canada: insights from the Pacific and Atlantic coasts

With 25% of the world’s coastline, Canada is endowed with enormous potential for marine aquaculture. Its development on both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, however, has come under increasingly intense public scrutiny and generated heated debate over many issues including First Nations territorial rights, impacts on wild fisheries, and environmental impacts. Provincial governments, industry alliances, scientists and ENGOs (environmental non-governmental organizations) have become increasingly embroiled in a communication tug-of-war to win the hearts and minds of the public. To date, however, there has been very limited community-level research into the public’s awareness of aquaculture, the information sources viewed as being most credible, and the issues that resonate the most. This paper reports the results of a study undertaken in small coastal communities on Canada’s Pacific (west) and Atlantic (east) coasts that investigated awareness of aquaculture, and the issues that people associate with its development. While many studies have focused exclusively on attitudes related to either finfish or shellfish farming, this study explores community perceptions related to salmon, shellfish and seaweed farming. Significant differences exist between the Atlantic and Pacific coast respondents in terms of their familiarity with and evaluation of different farming systems, the information sources that they rely upon, and their perceptions of the reliability of different information sources.

Situational analysis of of health Industry in Jiangsu province hospital of traditional Chinese medicine

To study the development trend of tratiditional Chinese medicine (TCM) development for the health industry with the Jiangsu Hospital of TCM as an example. The SWOT analysis was used to analyze the advantages and disadvantages, opportunities and threats of TCM. It puts forward to play the advantage for the opportunity strategy and avoid the threat strategy, to overcome the disadvantage for the opportunity strategy and avoid the threat strategy. The thoughts and outlooks of the big health industry of TCM should be brought out. So this paper puts forward some development strategies, such as adjusting the product structure reasonably, highlighting the characteristics of Chinese medicine, taking the way of differentiated development, exploring the advantages of our own resources in depth, and paying attention to the technical exchanges among industries, forming a big health industry alliance of Chinese medicine, avoiding vicious and disorderly competition. Key words: Traditional Chinese medicine; Health industry; Situational analysis