Industry Actors Research Articles

A Policy Design Framework on the Roles of S&T Universities in Innovation Ecosystems: Integrating Stakeholders’ Voices for Industry 4.0

In the digital transformation era, especially university-based innovation ecosystems (IEs) play an essential role in linking science and technology universities with industrial firms, including startups and enterprises. However, establishing a productive collaboration between these actors has many challenges. In this context, we primarily aim to explore the roles of universities as strong IE actors in Industry 4.0 technologies domain from the view of startup companies in these ecosystems. This article devises an integration matrix framework that links the I4.0 technology domains and their adoption challenges with the universities’ roles and obstacles for contributing to I4.0 adoption and digital transformation. The proposed framework considers and integrates the opinions of different stakeholder groups for prioritizing issues to select high-impact policy areas for universities. We collect data on the prioritization and links between the framed technologies, their challenges, universities’ roles, and obstacles by performing two different Delphi studies with 59 cofounders of Industry 4.0 startups and 15 experts on IEs in Turkey, as a case from developing country context. The integration matrix indicates high-impact and priority areas for policy development from a complex dataset, reflecting the voices of IE stakeholders in a structured way. The study also discusses the theoretical and managerial implications of the findings, highlighting potential research.

Культуроцентризм как фактор устойчивого развития уральских поселений в XXI веке

Introduction. The works devoted to the theme of the sustainable development of the Ural settlements show that the primary source of the culture-centrism of rural everyday practices is the forms of people's cultural activities that have historically developed in the Russian countryside. The cultural resources of the territory and the cultural activity of the population are recognized as important components of settlement systems. But they do not create a quick economic effect, so they play a secondary role. However, the development of territorial branding is an important factor in the sustainable development of rural areas. Materials and мethods. The method of content analysis was used in the work. The geography of the study was limited to the rural settlements of the Urals. Results. The applied use of original works of arts and crafts in territory branding is relevant for settlements where the results of people's cultural activities are in demand by actors in the hospitality industry. As an example, the paper cites the experience of the activities of creative groups of large villages in the Urals. An important role in the territorial branding of urban and rural settlements is played by cultural events (festivals, fairs, etc.). Vibrant cultural events are a necessary component of branding. Using ancient art is a possible way of branding. For the Ural-Siberian macro-region, these are the "Scythian-Siberian animal style" and "Permian animal style". Natural and cultural attractions are equally important means for implementing branding strategies. Discussion. When using the tools of the geocultural approach in the discussion of pilot scenarios for the development of the experience economy in rural settlements, it is necessary to be based on the semantic constructs of the concepts of "rural geoculture", "geocultural space of the village", "image of rural geoculture", "geocultural branding of the village". It seems logical to consider the geocultural branding of a rural settlement as a practice-oriented part of the geocultural strategy for the development of a rural district. Conclusion. The methodological "turn" of a number of researchers to the study of branding of cities and rural settlements through culture is due to their recognition of the culture-centricity of local communities. Currently, the cultural resources of urban and rural areas are used by stakeholders to develop the hospitality industry. Territory branding is in demand today, focusing on the promotion of urban and rural brands. Resume. It is shown that territory branding is the most important factor in the sustainable development of the Ural settlements. It has been established that it is possible to ensure the sustainable development of the potential of a rural area through the implementation of a geocultural branding strategy. The results of the research can be useful in the development of programs for the development of territories.

Information technology in supply chain management: Perspectives from key actors in the Nigerian petroleum sector

This research examines the potential impact of information technology (IT) on supply chain management (SCM) in the Nigerian petroleum industry. Specifically, the study seeks to identify the IT systems utilized by the key actors in the industry, the challenges facing SCM operations, and the potential benefits of IT for addressing these challenges. The field survey used 266 individuals, comprising regulators, production units, transporters, vendors, and customers. The study employed inferential statistics, and hypotheses were tested using the chi-square statistical test. The findings reveal that enterprise social networks, real-time track and tracking systems, warehouse management systems, and electronic invoice and fund transferring systems are the IT systems most commonly utilized by the key actors in the Nigerian petroleum industry. However, monitoring and evaluation remain the most challenging area for IT development in SCM operations. The study recommends that the government implement policies that encourage the adoption of IT in SCM operations, as well as incentives to encourage industry players to digitize data. The original contribution of this research is that it identifies the key IT systems utilized by the actors in the Nigerian petroleum industry and the challenges facing SCM operations, as well as proposing policy recommendations.

Surviving During the Pandemic: Lessons Learned from Bandung Indie Music Scene in the Covid-19 Pandemic

This research intends to study how creative industry players, especially the independent music industry in Bandung responded to the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The creative industry’s business pattern, which relies a lot on various face-to-face events, was forced to stop as a result of many restrictions on mobility to suppress the spread of Covid-19. By implementing a qualitative approach, this study conducted in-depth interviews with 8 experienced actors in the music industry in Bandung. This study found that (1) music industry players were hit hard at the beginning of the pandemic; (2) music industry players have many abilities that are very useful in difficult times such as pandemic times; and (3) music industry players initiated other creative businesses. This study also concludes that music industry players were classified as a vulnerable group during the pandemic. However, by capitalizing on the network within their communities, they were able to produce breakthroughs to survive and continue their activities in the creative industry.
 Keywords: creative industries, music, Covid-19, policy

Beyond sustainable consumption practices: Linking organic food consumption to hedonic and eudaimonic well-being

The organic food industry has significantly gained currency due to consumers being increasingly health conscious. However, more insight is needed to decipher the impact of organic food consumption on consumer well-being. Quantitative methods using a cross-sectional design were applied to collect data from 578 organic food consumers residing in South Africa. The results revealed that organic food consumption plays a central role in providing pleasure, positive emotions, a sense of accomplishment and personal growth to consumers. Moreover, the findings indicate that consumers' health consciousness significantly influences the interplay between dimensions of well-being. These findings shed important light on the scholarly debate around the influence of sustainable consumption on well-being. The study also provides crucial insights into new strategies that actors in the organic food industry as well as policymakers will use to effectively promote sustainable consumption and a healthy lifestyle.

Digital industrial platform development: A peripheral actor's perspective

Breakthrough technologies enabled digital industrial platform ecosystems are shaping the future industries. This study examines the development process of digital industrial platforms led by peripheral industrial actors through the lens of digital business model innovation. Utilizing an exploratory case study of HXB in the chemical fabric industry, we identify three digital business model innovations that contribute to successful digital industrial platform development: industrial transaction platformization, industrial factory digitalization, and digital platform enablement. We develop a framework to elucidate how these innovations facilitate digital industrial platform development and discuss how peripheral actors can overcome legitimacy limitations to deploy these innovations.

Overall Aircraft Design: From the open-source FAST-OAD to its training branch

Reducing the environmental footprint of commercial aviation to a manageable level, is a formidable challenge for the whole aeronautical community. In particular, new aircraft configurations could drastically reduce the environmental footprint. Training of engineers in Overall Aircraft Design (OAD) is, therefore, an essential step to be considered in order to take environmental issues into account from the preliminary design phase. ONERA and ISAE-SUPAERO have developed FAST-OAD (Future Aircraft Sizing Tool – Overall Aircraft Design), an open source platform for the analysis, sizing and optimization of aircraft, emphasizing on user-friendliness and modularity. The open source version provides a flexible and practical framework that allows researchers and industrial actors all around the world, to extend the entire aircraft design process to new challenging aircraft configurations, in-house models and higher fidelity approaches. In this contribution, the authors introduce, with a qualitative perspective, a training branch of FAST-OAD, to help trainers to build classes and tutorials.

The problem with net zero building policy: reflecting on the making, and future, of a global discourse

The Paris Agreement made net zero emissions a global target. In response, net zero carbon building standards have proliferated, making net zero a popular target for buildings. But to meaningfully contribute to global decarbonization efforts, net zero standards and the organizations who promote them, must be deemed legitimate. Given the building industry’s reputation for being highly fragmented and slow to change, how has this legitimacy been constructed? What are the implications of this legitimation process? This article seeks to answer these questions by exploring the narratives used by the World Green Building Council (WGBC) to legitimate Net Zero Carbon Buildings (NZCB) from 2015 to 2021. Our analysis is based on over 100 documents produced by the WGBC and 22 interviews with WGBC and Green Building Council representatives, policymakers, and industry actors. Results reveal six main storylines adopted by the WGBC to extend the legitimacy of sustainable green building movement actors to the new net zero governance space. This legitimation process allows the WGBC to develop and implement net zero standards quickly, but also creates tensions between efficiency and procedural integrity, potential and proven results, corporate and collective value. While NZCB are here to stay, these tensions highlight barriers to their wide-scale adoption and question their ability to deliver an economically viable, socially just, environmental, net zero transition.

Emerging sociotechnical imaginaries – How the smart home is legitimized in visions from industry, users in homes and policymakers in Germany

Debates about the digitally enhanced and “smart” home include different visions associated with implementing digital technologies in private homes. This paper analyzes the “visions” put forward in Germany from smart home industry actors, users in smart homes and policymakers and the processes through which legitimacy for the smart home is created. When it comes to digital energy futures, the multiple ways in which visions legitimize the uptake of emerging technologies belong to the driving forces in institutionally stabilizing sociotechnical imaginaries. We identify legitimation strategies that can be found within those visions. Our analyzes are empirically based on a qualitative content analysis of smart home marketing websites from the ten most common smart home providers in Germany and on policy documents from German ministries, as well as on qualitative interviews with German smart home users. We discovered four different legitimation strategies that contribute to institutionally stabilizing emerging German smart home imaginaries: cognitive/emotional alignment, solutionism, coupling with normative goals and expert/scientific legitimation. Our findings reveal how visions that, in their formation phase, are shared only between small actor collectives gain traction through several legitimation strategies.

Facilitation and Mediation Methods for Solving Capital Constraints of Milkfish Processing Industry In Tambaksumur Village, Tirtajaya Subdistrict, Karawang Regency

Karawang Regency is one of the West Java Province areas with excellent potential in aquaculture fishery production, particularly milkfish production. However, the local community needs to optimize the fishery product by increasing added value. The identification results showed that the milkfish processing industry is still underdeveloped, especially after the economic downturn due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the main problem faced by business actors in the milkfish processing industry is the problem of capital. For this reason, the community service activity focuses on efforts to solve capital problems for industrial business actors through facilitation and mediation activities with financial institutions. The community service team suggested the need for regular coaching activities, more intense and consistent solving of capital problems, and proactive efforts to implement financial inclusion policies

Testing the reliability of adaptive capacity as a proxy for adaptive and transformative responses to climate change

The concept of adaptive capacity is increasingly being applied to understand and predict people’s ability to adapt to the emerging impacts of climate change. Despite its potential utility, the degree to which adaptive capacity is a reliable predictor of adaptation remains unclear; evidence for a causal relationship is insufficient and conflicting. To address this gap, we surveyed 231 reef tourism companies across eight countries in the Asia-Pacific that have been affected by severe climate disturbances between 2014 and 2019. We used a combination of descriptive and multivariate statistical approaches to explore the relationships between adaptive capacity, adaptive responses, and contextual conditions. Our findings indicate that a comprehensive operationalization of actor-specific adaptive capacity is not necessarily a reliable proxy for measuring potential adaptation to future climate change. The severity of impacts on individual operators was the major determinant of adaptive action. Adaptive action might therefore be adopted autonomously by the majority of microeconomic actors (when they are severely affected), irrespective of their a priori adaptive capacity. Adaptive capacity was, however, a reliable proxy for the likelihood that an operator would take transformative action as their primary response to a climate disturbance; several of our indicators of adaptive capacity had a meaningful effect size, in particular those within the adaptive capacity domain of social organization. Policies focused on improving coordination and collaboration between industry, research, and government actors might therefore be more effective than alternatives in promoting long-term transformation of social-ecological systems. Adaptation confidence and government effectiveness were barriers to transformative action, and we provide some potential explanations. Further empirical research is needed to evaluate the generality of our findings in different contexts over space and time.

The Role Of Market Performance Studies With A Strategic Orientation

In Southeast Sulawesi, during the Corona Virus Disease Pandemic, this study sought to examine the impact of the strategic orientation dimension on the market performance of the culinary industry. The descriptive and quantitative methods used non-probability sampling and a purposive sample technique. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the population was made up of actors in the food industry who had managed to survive and run their companies for more than two years. Only 38 people responded to the survey's sample, which was small. This study used Smart-PLS 3.0's route analysis for data analysis. To help culinary business actors perform better in the market during the COVID-19 pandemic, the analysis of the strategic aspects that have an aggressive attitude and significantly affect market performance were presented.

Circularity information platform for the built environment

To accelerate Circular Economy (CE) implementation in the built environment, integrated information systems that are capable to identify, coordinate, and evaluate CE collaborations across heterogeneous projects are in demand. A digital collaborative hub, Circularity Information Platform (CIP), is a promising solution to streamline complex information exchanges and foster symbiotic material interactions in broader circular ecosystems. However, there is a lack of comprehensive design blueprints of CIP supported by empirical development evidence. We aim to design, prototype, demonstrate, and evaluate a Reference Architecture (RA) of CIP using a design science research methodology. The proposed RA is used to instantiate a web-based artifact of CIP for a concrete supply chain in The Netherlands. The artifact is evaluated by industrial and governmental actors through workshops. The evaluation results confirm that (1) the proposed RA models contribute to effective CIP development, and (2) the identified functionalities of CIP are beneficial to CE implementation.

Unpacking assertions made by the alcohol industry and how they make them: An analysis of submissions into Australia's National Alcohol Strategy.

Alcohol is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally. One significant barrier to the implementation of evidence-based alcohol policy is alcohol industry opposition. Making submissions to national policy processes is one way in which the industry exert influence. The aim of this study was to analyse alcohol industry submissions into Australia's National Alcohol Strategy to determine key assertions made by the alcohol industry and the ways in which they use evidence and refute the effectiveness of public health policies to make their claims. Submissions made by alcohol industry actors (n = 12) were analysed using content analysis to determine key industry assertions. A pre-existing framework on alcohol industry use of evidence was then applied to analyse the evidentiary practices used to make these assertions. Five common industry assertions were identified: 'Drinking alcohol in moderation has health benefits'; 'Alcohol isn't the cause of violence'; 'Targeted initiatives, not population level alcohol policies, are needed'; 'Strong alcohol advertising regulations are not necessary'; and 'Minimum unit price and pricing and taxation policies more broadly are not needed'. The industry systematically manipulated, misused and ignored evidence throughout their submissions. The alcohol industry is misusing evidence in their submissions to government consultations to make their assertions about alcohol policy. It is therefore essential that industry submissions are scrutinised and not accepted on face value. Additionally, it is suggested that the alcohol industry requires a distinct model of governance similarly to that which regulates the tobacco industry to prevent their attempts to undermine evidence-based public health policy.

Improvement of satellite-derived surface solar irradiance estimations using spatio-temporal extrapolation with statistical learning

Estimations of solar surface irradiance (SSI) derived from meteorological satellites are widely used by various actors in the solar industry. However, even state-of-the-art empirical and physical SSI retrieval models exhibit significant errors; the estimations provided by these models are thus traditionally corrected using ground-based measurements of SSI as references. The literature is rich with such correction methods, often called adaptation techniques. Most of the proposed models, however, are local or site-specific, i.e., they do not extrapolate the correction in space and are only applicable to the location of the ground-based measurements.In this work, we propose a novel global adaptation technique, that can extrapolate the correction in both space and time. To that end, we leverage (1) a dense network of measurement stations across France, (2) a relatively large number of predictors, and (3) a non-linear, sophisticated regression algorithm, the Extreme Gradient Boosting. The model is applied to the HelioClim3 database; its performance is benchmarked against raw HelioClim3 estimations, and alternative, simpler adaptation techniques.Our analysis shows that this global model significantly improves satellite-derived SSI estimations from the HelioClim3 database, even when the evaluation is carried out on measurement stations that were not part of the training set of the algorithm. Our proposed model also outperforms all tested alternative global adaptation techniques.These results suggest that global adaptation techniques leveraging advanced machine learning and high dimensionality have the potential to significantly improve satellite-derived SSI estimations, notably more than traditional adaptation approaches. There is certainly room for improvement, but the development of such techniques is a promising research topic.

Tinjauan Pemasaran Pariwisata Melalui Teknologi Informasi Sebagai Perencanaan Manajemen Industri Pariwisata : Suatu Kajian Literatur

This article aims to review and seek to inform about the concept of reviewing tourism marketing through information technology as a tourism industry management plan. The research method used is qualitative and literature studies or library research Based on the results and discussion, it can be concluded theoretically that to understand tourism marketing reviews through information technology as a management model planning in the tourism industry requires several important things including: (a) Travel consumer, (b) Trends in tourism technology, (c ) Digital Marketing (DM) and (d) Virtual Reality (VR). Technology is a central element and a foundation for actors in the tourism industry promoting media that is relevant to the development of information technology, especially in the form of social media and websites.

An exploration of stakeholder views and perceptions on taxing tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages in Ghana

BackgroundNon-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for nearly 43% of Ghana’s all-cause mortality. Unhealthy commodities (such as alcohol, sugar and tobacco) are an important factor in the growing NCD burden in the...

White-adjacent Muslim development: racializing British Muslim aid in Mali

AbstractMuslim aid organizations are relatively new actors in the Western aid industry. Based on multi-sited ethnographic research with the UK-based NGO Islamic Relief, I explore the organization’s engagement with a school in need of repair in southern rural Mali that is also the site of a sacred shrine of importance to locals. I examine the contextual global logics of racialization that undergird different interpretations and practices of what it means to ‘do good’. Situating an understanding of ‘development’ in an analysis of global racial capitalism, I argue that, as an Islamically inspired aid organization based in the UK, Islamic Relief is both subject to anti-Muslim racism and complicit in a white-adjacent racialized project of ‘development’ in Africa. I foreground the whiteness of development to show how modernist development practice makes it impossible to see other ways of conceptualizing ‘doing good’ that are also deeply grounded in Islam.

Systemic enablers and barriers to extending the productive life of dairy cows in Switzerland

Research has shown that the economic and ecological optimum productive life of dairy cows is between six and seven lactations, but the current average length in Switzerland, and many other countries, is approximately half that figure. Reasons for culling can be unplanned, such as illness, or planned, such as to achieve breeding goals, but the reasons for the sub-optimal length of productive life are not fully understood. The aim of this study is to investigate systemic barriers to, and enablers of, the extension of the length of productive life of dairy cows in Switzerland. To address this aim, we focused on the power of actor groups in the incumbent system to induce change. We analysed the content of 29 interviews with industry experts, including practising vets, agricultural advisors, breeders' organisations, farmers' organisations, dairies and retailers, government officials, and agricultural educators. The results indicate that vets, advisors, and breeders' organisations have key resources, which could potentially be mobilized to achieve an optimal length of productive life. These resources include their relationships to farmers (human resource), their knowledge, information/data, and strategy (mental resources), and the breeding value (artefactual resource). However, the incumbent system is inflexible, which hinders individual industry actors to facilitate change. Collaborative reflection at industry level, led by breeders' associations, vets, and advisors, may create the conditions to create change and enable an optimization of the productive life of dairy cows in Switzerland.

The Role of Emping Melinjo Home Industry in Increasing Family Income in Warung Gunung District, Lebak Regency

Industry home is activity the same effort bigsr culprit is girl . Home industry development specifically chips melinjo , besides supported with resource environment , is also affected by structure existing culture , hence _ activity This done generally only fill in time spare and work part time . research purposes This one of them dalah to find out the contribution of the home industry to family income. Type study This use qualitative approach with the type of field research (field research). Collected data in the form of primary data and secondary data obtained through observation , interview as well as recording and documentation. Data analysis used a qualitative descriptive technique. Objective study are as follows: (1) the characteristics of the emping melinjo home industry in Warung Gunung District ; (2) knowing the contribution of the emping melinjo home industry to family income . The results showed that the emping melinjo home industry in Warung Gunung District , Lebak Regency was average are of age Adults (36-50 years ) with level moderate education (equivalent to elementary school graduation), and length of business relatively low ie not enough from 7 years . The level of family income of home industry actors is generally in the range between Rp. 1,000,000 -Rp 1,500,000. The income contribution of emping melinjo craftsmen is in the range of Rp. 1,600,000-Rp. 2,000,000 in the high category. Height level generated income _ influenced by several factors including is business scale, capital outlay and product marketing system . Activity marketing done _ craftsman during This Still dominated by roles family, however so is the home industry empyg melinjo is very giving contribution to level income family .