Community Innovation Research Articles

Unlocking the Power of Digital Commons: Data Cooperatives as a Pathway for Data Sovereign, Innovative and Equitable Digital Communities

Network effects, economies of scale, and lock-in-effects increasingly lead to a concentration of digital resources and capabilities, hindering the free and equitable development of digital entrepreneurship, new skills, and jobs, especially in small communities and their small and medium-sized enterprises (“SMEs”). To ensure the affordability and accessibility of technologies, promote digital entrepreneurship and community well-being, and protect digital rights, we propose data cooperatives as a vehicle for secure, trusted, and sovereign data exchange. In post-pandemic times, community/SME-led cooperatives can play a vital role by ensuring that supply chains to support digital commons are uninterrupted, resilient, and decentralized. Digital commons and data sovereignty provide communities with affordable and easy access to information and the ability to collectively negotiate data-related decisions. Moreover, cooperative commons (a) provide access to the infrastructure that underpins the modern economy, (b) preserve property rights, and (c) ensure that privatization and monopolization do not further erode self-determination, especially in a world increasingly mediated by AI. Thus, governance plays a significant role in accelerating communities’/SMEs’ digital transformation and addressing their challenges. Cooperatives thrive on digital governance and standards such as open trusted application programming interfaces (“APIs”) that increase the efficiency, technological capabilities, and capacities of participants and, most importantly, integrate, enable, and accelerate the digital transformation of SMEs in the overall process. This review article analyses an array of transformative use cases that underline the potential of cooperative data governance. These case studies exemplify how data and platform cooperatives, through their innovative value creation mechanisms, can elevate digital commons and value chains to a new dimension of collaboration, thereby addressing pressing societal issues. Guided by our research aim, we propose a policy framework that supports the practical implementation of digital federation platforms and data cooperatives. This policy blueprint intends to facilitate sustainable development in both the Global South and North, fostering equitable and inclusive data governance strategies.

Use of Marketing Communication Tools in Tourism in Accommodation Facilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The spread of the infectious disease COVID-19 throughout the world in 2020 caused a global pandemic, which, with subsequent measures, seriously affected the global tourism industry. The main purpose of the research study was to identify and analyse the use of marketing communication tools in tourism in accommodation facilities in the Czech Republic during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper adds to the existing literature by offering a better understanding of the link between the effectiveness of marketing communication tools within the marketing strategy and the financial losses of the hotel sector. As part of the research, a total of 140 controlled, structured interviews were conducted with managers of selected accommodation facilities, in which the scope and primary forms of use of marketing communication tools during the COVID-19 pandemic were investigated. Research objectives were verified through research questions and hypotheses. The main findings of the research revealed that more than half of the monitored accommodation establishments in the Czech Republic did not change their promotion strategy during the pandemic. In contrast, almost 13% of the accommodation establishments surveyed did not use any tools to communicate with the customer. The research also showed that marketing communication of accommodation facilities takes place mainly in the form of websites and social media, while the most effective communication is via social networks. Therefore, the authors recommend professional associations operating in tourism and hospitality focus their educational activities on the possibilities of using innovative marketing communication tools to communicate with customers. The research was carried out for the requirements and needs of society and practice in connection with the effects of the pandemic crisis so that it was possible to communicate more effectively with the customer segment in the tourism sector.

Соціально-психологічні причини деструктивних аспектів розвитку інноваційних спільнот на локальному рівні

In the conditions of decentralization and changes in the social paradigm, creating unique breakthrough ideas regarding transforming the region into an innovative territory is of particular importance. Innovative communities have a unique potential in these conditions – a new type of relationship between the government, business, and civil society. However, in transformational and crisis societies, the creation and development of innovative communities are associated with a significant range of problems that need to be solved. A significant part of these problems has socio-psychological reasons, which often lead to destructive actions, significantly reducing the potential of innovative communities. The study aims to determine the socio-psychological reasons for the destructive aspects of the development of innovative communities at the local level and to develop proposals for increasing the effectiveness of the innovative communities’ development at the local level, considering the potential of using the archetypal methodology. The research goals are also to determine the factors of implementing innovation models in communities and to focus on overcoming problematic aspects in this field. Modern approaches to the definition of innovations were considered to determine the features of the development of innovative communities. It has been determined that innovation is a social process; therefore, the most crucial thing for innovation is to create an appropriate innovation climate based on safety and trust, in which people feel involved and are not afraid to express new ideas. This is especially important since innovations, especially the most radical and systemic, relate to the need to go against orthodox opinions to offer other forms of work and cooperation. Therefore, when managing innovative processes, it is necessary to consider the factor of human behaviour and understand how to encourage people to show initiative, put forward new ideas, and motivate and encourage their implementation. It is substantiated that it is vital for the public administration field that innovation’s success depends not only on the manager’s role in the process but primarily on the performers and participants (human resources). In this regard, the innovative community as a new form of organizational development is one of the most positive in innovation. It was determined that innovative communities could unite a wide range of stakeholders and be divided according to geographical or thematic principles. Community members freely share knowledge, resulting in new approaches, ideas, and talent retention and development. People are kept together only by a sense of involvement in collective experience and knowledge, a sincere desire to maintain relationships, and mutual obligations remain. Innovative communities, when they unite individuals and entire teams, can implement large-scale innovative projects. It is shown that any innovative community is formed on a specific basis. It is based on individual or collective creativity, ambition, spirit, and intellectual history of the place (heredity, archetypes). Ambition, spirit, and intelligence presuppose risk-taking ability and a track record in management. Only after the emergence of this combination of economic, resource and management factors, such as business incubation, project financing, creation of intensive horizontal connections between all participants, infrastructure, etc., are involved. From the point of view of destructive behaviour, the peculiarities of the innovation process are considered. It is also shown that innovation is a positive process according to the generally accepted position. Still, it is necessary to remember the other side, that innovation is a forced measure necessary to maintain or respond to changes. It is substantiated that it is necessary to agree on the scope of application and the duration of their existence to eliminate the factors of destructive behaviour when creating innovative communities. It has been determined that one of the leading causes of destructive actions within innovative communities is excessively rigid expectations, an excessive degree of subjective certainty that exceeds objective predictability.

Review and Comparative Characteristics of Services that Contribute to Information Provision of Innovative Activity

Problem setting. The concept of post -industrial society implies that the economy of modern states should prevail in the innovation sector with high -yielding industry, knowledge industry and high proportion in GDP of high -tech and innovative services. In this approach, information is considered by a separate full -fledged resource, which not only does not infer the traditional material resources, but may also be more important. The development of the economy in the realities of post -industrial society requires the creation of favorable conditions for the activity of competitive innovative enterprises, many of which begin as startups and SMEs. At the same time, such enterprises require significant individual information support and support. In order to understand what support can be calculated by representatives of the domestic innovation sphere, it is advisable to inspect and compare the services that contribute to their information support. One of the varieties of such services is information and communication platforms. Analysis of resent researches and publications. The roles of startups, SMEs and innovative infrastructure in modern society are devoted to many works of employees of the Research Institute of Providing Legal Framework for the Innovative Development, in S. V. Hlibko, D. S. Korytin, I. V. Podrez-Riapolova, M. H. Khaustova et al. Among the domestic scientists involved in the issues of information and communication technologies and systems, it is possible to distinguish K. O. Bezuhla, P. M. Lissov, P. P. Maslianko. Purpose of the research is to carry out inspection and comparison of services that contribute to information support (with emphasis A of information and communication platforms), in order to cover the support of startups, SMEs and other persons who directly and indirectly contribute to the development of the domestic competitive economy. Article’s main body. Scientific work examines and compare services that contribute to information provision of innovation (business activity of innovative subjects). Special emphasis is placed on information and communication platforms, in particular on the development of the Scientific and Research Institute of Providing Legal Framework for the Innovative Development – Smart Law Innovation platform (SLI). The definition and classification of infocommunication systems, which allows you to outline the essence of Smart Law Innovation, is given. The article pays attention to the importance of information for building a modern competitive economy in the postindustrial world. While innovative activity is a prerequisite for the described development, information support is an important condition for the activity of innovative entities. The article emphasizes the importance of information support (information and counseling) of startups and SMEs, which bring a significant share to the innovative development of successful countries, but require special support for launching, developing and avoiding risk. Enterprise Europe Network and its regional centers (on the example of the Polish Center Podlaska Fundacja Rozwoju Regionalnego) are explored to analyze the EU’s positive experience in the field of business. Services provided by the domestic network of business support centers, formed for the financing of the European Union under the EU4Business initiative during 2016-2020, are paying attention to a positive trend to the formation of online online communities providing online services. Services offered by platforms are performed. Attention is paid to powerful positive experiences and powerful sides that can offer outlined services. The final part of the article is devoted to the inspection of the information and communication platform of the Smart Law Innovation and its comparison with the existing concrete proposals outlined above. Conclusions and prospects for the development. The development of innovative enterprises is a prerequisite for building a competitive economy in the post-industrial world. At the same time, information support is an important condition for launching, developing and avoiding risks. The importance of timely information and counseling is especially noticeable for startups and SMEs, which bring a significant share in the innovative development of successful countries. Proper use of electronic technologies and the development of infrastructure capable of assisting innovative entities can significantly contribute to Ukraine’s economic reconstruction. Further analysis of the EU’s positive experience, including Enterprise Europe Network, can be used to increase favorable business conditions in Ukraine. In addition to state support, the article draws attention to private projects that provide information support and counseling, including online services, formed by lawyers and individual consulting projects. One of the projects that provides information support for innovative subjects, researchers and ordinary citizens is the Smart Law Innovation Information and Communication Platform, developed by the Research Institute of Legal Support of Innovative Development of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Although the platform is still under development, the analysis of competitive proposals allows you to see a number of advantages over this development.

A Novel Authentication and Communication Protocol for Urban Traffic Monitoring in VANETs Based on Cluster Management

City zones have become increasingly overcrowded due to the extensive population widening ratio and the swift relocation of people from villages. The traffic monitoring process is a significant issue in these areas due to the massive traffic flow on the roads. This research proposed a cluster-based improved authentication and communication protocol for an Intelligent Transportation System in Vehicular AdHoc Networks (VANETs). Our primary objective is to optimize resource sharing in vehicular communication. We enhanced the reliability, scalability, and stability of fast-moving VANETs by introducing cluster-based routing protocols for Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications. We used a third-party certification authority for vehicle authentication to address security and privacy concerns. Our proposed protocol support minimizes the end-to-end (E2E) delay and route request and reduces link failure. Our protocol’s leading yield includes throughput enhancement, TCP Socket Initialization time minimization, TCP handshake response speedup, and DNS lookup improvement. The protocols are centered on short-range peer-to-peer (P2P) wireless communication in a 400 m radius cluster. They include innovative P2P wireless communications on VANET using minimized resources. The proposed protocols deliver a secure authentication mechanism with a securely generated vehicle authentication key provided by a certification authority. Furthermore, we have developed RESTful APIs in vehicular communication for implementation purposes and also offered and implemented algorithms for resource sharing regarding V2V and V2I communication. Ultimately, we evaluated the performance of our experiments.

Digital interprofessional communication with families in a cardiac surgery unit: insights from the pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic entailed cutting off the usual access to hospitals, denying patients daily visits from their relatives and friends. The standard communication between medical staff and relatives also suffered, with a perceived negative impact on overall care. We developed an electronic communication solution to re-establish a proactive daily communication with patients' families. The communication software allowed families to receive daily interprofessional (medical, nursing, and physiotherapy) updates by text message, on patients' postoperative clinical state. Appreciation and performance of this communication was evaluated through a prospective randomised study. Two groups were compared (group D, 32 patients "Digital" receiving daily SMS, and group S, 16 patients "Standard" without SMS), assessing satisfaction through dedicated surveys under COVID-19 restrictions. Moreover, private outgoing vs. incoming communication flow between patients and their relatives (phone calls and text messages, for both groups) were analysed at different timeframes of the postoperative hospital stay. Mean age of the population was 66 ± 7 years for both groups. The digital communication service was successfully adopted in group D in all cases, sending overall 155 communications (4.84 per patient). Calls received from relatives were 13 in group D vs. 22 in group S (0.4 vs. 1.4 calls per patient, p = 0.002). Patients' outgoing vs. incoming traffic flow was equal in the two groups for every timeframe (first two postoperative days vs. the rest), independently from digital communication. Comparing satisfaction of communication (from 1 to 7), level of information and understandability resulted in 6.7 in group D vs. 5.6 in group S (p = 0.004). Appreciation of digital communication was highest during the first three postoperative days. The restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic generated simple and effective ideas on digital solutions for interprofessional communication. Offering this digital service, which complements rather than replace the classic communication, eased the need of the families to be informed and significantly enhanced the overall satisfaction regarding the healthcare service. The COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted access to hospital patients and cut off physical contact, denying patients, their families, and medical staff the necessary constant communication about the progress of their stay. It has become necessary, therefore, to compensate for the lack of "physical" face-to-face interaction by introducing innovative digital communication solutions. Our interprofessional project aims to assess the overall satisfaction and acceptance of digital communication service between the hospital and the families, updating on postoperative clinical condition of patients. Specifically, the introduction of a digital communication module attached to the electronic patient record allows relatives to be informed on a daily basis. The development of this module/software enabled families to receive daily, interprofessional and proactive digital updates, on their relative ones' postoperative stay.

Idea crowdsourcing platforms for new product development: A study of idea quality and the number of submitted ideas

Organizational innovation communities for new product development (NPD) have become an integral part of organizations' strategy to find innovative ideas for new products with the help of their consumers. The success of these communities largely depends on users' idea submission and idea quality. While more ideas will increase the chance of finding novel ideas, more low-quality ideas will increase the costs of finding novel ideas. Although the idea crowdsourcing literature has grown significantly, it is relatively new and focused on idea crowdsourcing platforms for product improvement ideas where individuals submit ideas to fix software bugs or to request new features. By examining idea quality (measured by vote) and idea submission in idea crowdsourcing platforms for NPD, we aim to enrich our understanding of these contexts. Furthermore, we review the literature from two perspectives: individuals' own experiences (past performance) and the experiences of others (interaction with peers' ideas) and identify several key gaps in the literature. Using data from a pioneer innovation community for NPD, we find an inverted U-shape association between users' past performance (in terms of average quality of past ideas) and idea quality and idea submission. Additionally, interaction with peers' ideas (in terms of quantity and intensity) positively influences idea submission but does not impact idea quality. A complementary relationship between own experience and others' experiences was also not found. The findings provide new insights into idea crowdsourcing platforms for NPD and the determinants of individuals' idea submission behavior and idea quality on these platforms which have several implications for practice.

Facilitating Innovation for Complex Societal Challenges: Creating Communities and Innovation Ecosystems for SDG Goal of Forming Partnerships

This study applies a social transformation perspective and aims to provide a conceptual framework for different innovation-driven communities and platforms designed to answer complex problems. Based on the SDG goal # 17 (The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals) on the importance of creating partnership, we examine the structures, strategies, and processes designed by the Israel Innovation Institute (III) in the creation of communities and innovation ecosystems. Our research questions are what are the processes and strategies applied to create an ecosystem for an innovation community and to advance partnerships, and how do they evolve and develop. Based on data from interviews, participant observations, and document analysis, we analyzed the pre-conditions for establishing these communities and innovation ecosystems, the community managers’ main strategies, and the processes in which these ecosystems evolve and develop. We find that the III creates a bottom-up process based on three inter-related functions: the creating encounters or partnerships within the community, leading to a second level of collaboration based on bringing various actors, knowledge, and resources from institutions or large organizations outside the original community. These functions lead to further reconfiguring the system higher-order change by setting additional encounters with multinational actors, state actors, and more. This study has significant policy implications for facilitating innovation for complex societal challenges.

The One Health Approach to Addressing Zoonotic Malaria in Rural Northern Borneo: Challenges and Solutions

Abstract Plasmodium knowlesi malaria is a vector-borne disease transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito. The incidence of this zoonotic malaria in South-east Asian rural communities continues to increase annually, despite efforts and guidelines for malaria control. To address this gap, a One Health project, supported by various stakeholders, was conducted from January to August 2022 to integrate community perspectives and address challenges to malaria prevention. The project implemented a photovoice initiative in collaboration with Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, international malaria experts, the Sabah State Health Department, and primary healthcare workers in four rural villages in Sabah, Malaysia. The study recruited 26 adult participants of both genders to explore their perceptions of malaria, prevention challenges, and the significance of innovative community engagement methods. Cultural and social norms, environmental factors, social disparity, and socio-economic status influenced the identified challenges. The project findings were shared with stakeholders and policy makers through photo exhibitions, newspaper articles, academic manuscripts, reports, and conferences and helped initiate further dialogues with policy makers and stakeholders. The transdisciplinary photovoice approach showcased the impact of collaborative efforts with rural communities in shedding light on critical issues related to malaria prevention. Future recommendations propose co-designing interventions for the target population and bridging the gap through a One Health initiative that integrates community perspectives and is supported by multiple stakeholders in addressing the challenges of malaria prevention. Information © The Authors 2023

On the Mechanism of Customer's Participation in Innovation in Virtual Community

With the development of digitalization and Internet technology, virtual community, as a new social form, emerges constantly. In the virtual community, people can interact, communicate, share and cooperate with other users through the network platform, thus forming a community with common interests or goals. With the popularization and deepening of virtual community, more and more enterprises begin to pay attention to and use virtual community as a channel for marketing and product innovation. This paper introduces the concept and characteristics of virtual community, analyzes the significance of customers' participation in innovation and the motives of different customers' participation, and discusses the strategies for establishing the innovation mechanism of customers' participation in virtual community.

Innovation Pattern Heterogeneity and Crisis Resilience

We use the new taxonomy for innovative firms developed based on microlevel data from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS2018) on a sample of 6360 Norwegian firms, and information on users of COVID-19-related compensation schemes for firms with significant loss of turnover and furloughed employees to analyse how resilient different innovative firms have been to the crisis (in both the short and the long run). By using different probabilistic regression models, we study the probability of firms being affected negatively during the pandemic period between March 2020 and February 2022 covering three waves of societal restrictions in Norway. Our main assumption is that all firms were hit by a shock at an early stage due to a complete lockdown in March 2020, but that firms were more resilient if they either did not use the compensation schemes or used them for a briefer period than the less resilient firms. We find “active R&D doers” to be most resilient, while “strategic adapters” (firms with a main strategy of producing high-quality products for a specific group of customers) are found to be least resilient. These results imply that pre-existing innovation capabilities are important for meeting the crisis.

Communication and Perception of Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation in Nigeria: Implications for Development

There is a paucity of empirical research on emerging Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) communication in Nigeria, and the impact on national development. This study sought answers to: what are the perceptions of emerging STI among Nigerian citizens and academics, and to what extent do emerging STIs contribute to national development? Based on the science-technology-society theory, the study conducted a survey of 2400 Nigerians in 12 states and an interview of select STI experts in 12 Nigerian universities. The study focused on synthetic biology, nanoscience and technology, robotics and artificial intelligence, drones, etc. The findings showed that a greater majority of the respondents perceived agricultural drones as the most necessary emerging STI in Nigeria while neuroparasitology was seen as the least necessary to the country’s development. Respondents also agreed that emerging STI had the more impact on ICTs and the least on security, economy and the environment. Also, large segment of respondents perceived that the new/ mass media were the predominant sources of emerging STI information. Also, STI experts perceived emerging STIs to be in their infancy in Nigeria, communication of STIs was concentrated within the scientific community, and collaboration was lacking between the STI community and other stakeholders.

The Image Narrative and Innovative Communication of Hero of the Times

Mainstream media are paying more and more attention to the importance of image journalism in their innovative news reporting. This paper analyses the mainstream media's pictorial narrative of the heroes of the times and their image construction strategies through the pictorial coverage of the heroes of the times on the WeChat public website of the People's Daily. The main focus is on the photographic composition, image colour and rhetoric of the heroes of the times, analyzing the innovations in contemporary heroic image narratives and their implications for Internet communication.

Managing Industrial Innovation Communications on Social Media Platforms for Effective User Engagement

Managing Industrial Innovation Communications on Social Media Platforms for Effective User Engagement

Grand challenges and platform ecosystems: Scaling solutions for wicked ecological and societal problems

AbstractThe persistence of grand societal and environmental challenges demands attention from innovation management scholars and practitioners to find effective resolutions. Grand challenges are complex, uncertain, and evaluative and cannot be resolved by individual actors or organizations. Therefore, conventional forms of organizing do not suffice in the face of wicked problems like climate change or global inequality, which require continuous and varied attention and inputs. In this catalyst article, I argue that platform ecosystems—communities and groups of actors in different markets orchestrated through a digital platform and driven by combinations of economic and prosocial incentives—are an organizing form that can help effectively scale solutions for grand societal and environmental problems. This potential is based on three organizational elements of platform ecosystems: (1) coordination structures for orchestrating complementary inputs, (2) instigation and maintenance of collective action, and (3) generativity potential. I illustrate these arguments with practical examples of two platforms with the potential to resolve specific grand challenges: Patient Innovation, which orchestrates a community of innovators seeking to help treatment of chronic and rare diseases, and Excess Materials Exchange, which provides matching solutions to address the challenges associated with industrial material waste. The article concludes with an agenda for future research and practice on platform ecosystems and grand challenges.

Innovative primary care lead community palpitation management and investigation pathway

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background Palpitations are a common reason for General Practitioner (GP) appointment in primary care and a frequent reason for cardiology referral. In the region where this project was performed, this translated to approximately 24,000 primary care and out of hours consultations in 2021 alone. Purpose The purpose of this pilot was to evaluate a pathway for palpitations diagnosis and management in primary care. The proposed pathway was designed to avoid unnecessary referrals to secondary care, to shorten the waiting time to diagnosis for patients and to cut down visits to A&E and out of hours service in primary care. Method The pathway, which was piloted at a federation for 30,000 patients, was based on a community cardiology approach, where a GP with Special interest in cardiology could offer the service for the wider community. The pathway began with an initial clinical evaluation comprising medical history, physical examination, and a standard 12-lead ECG. After ruling out of any red flags and otherwise deemed appropriate to continue to be assessed with the proposed diagnostic method, the patients were provided with a handheld ECG device for intermittent 30 seconds ECG registration at home. During a four-week investigation period the patients would record their ECG when experiencing symptoms. The primary care team remotely monitored the traces which were received on a cloud-based system with AI capabilities, and if pathology was recorded, patient was contacted and informed of management plan. If after four weeks no pathology was found, patients received a discharge consultation for reassurance and final report was generated. Results During the 24-month pilot we screened the total of 191 patients. Out of the patients screened 24 (13%) were diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, 92 (48%) were diagnosed with benign ectopics as the cause of their palpitations. Two rare occurrences of a life threatening broad complex tachycardias were also detected, both of which ended up needing defib implantation. Table 1. further presents the results by diagnosis for rest of the patients. Conclusions The results from the pilot indicated a reduction in GP / out of hours consultations by 50% and over 90% reduction in referral to secondary care for Holter monitoring by implementing an easy-to-use handheld ECG as part of the community led palpitation pathway. The results further implied that a district-wide implementation could lead to at least 120 new AF diagnosis in our project district per year, having a knock-on benefit of stroke reduction and cost economic impact in the society by reducing anxiety, lost employment hours and increasing productivity. Another key outcome seen is the reassurance value of conducting symptomatic palpitation monitoring to reassure patients, majority of whom had either normal sinus rhythm or benign ventricular ectopics and had failed to be satisfied with conventional Holter monitoring in the past.

Creating the Current and Riding the Wave: Persistence and Change in Community-Engaged Health Sciences Research

Recent decades have seen considerable increases in funding and support for community-engaged research (CER) in the health sciences, including the introduction of community engagement requirements into federally funded research infrastructure programs. This paper asks why, despite these supports and incentives, even the best-intentioned researchers and research organizations may struggle to design, implement, and sustain successful community engagement strategies. This question is examined using an exploratory case study of an environmental health sciences research center whose strategies were influenced in part by a requirement by the funder to incorporate community engagement into its research activities. This study utilizes multiple sources of qualitative data collected between the research center’s second and fifth years of operation, including participant observation, interviews, and focus groups. The analysis employs an organizational perspective, yielding insights into the factors hindering and facilitating the development of practices that integrate community perspectives and control into academic structures. The findings point to an ongoing dialectic between support for innovative community engagement practices and persistence of conventional academic structures. We highlight the interconnected effects of environmental influences, organizational structures, and individual agency on the development of innovative community engagement practices. The implications for future research and practice are discussed.

Universities, imperialism and the collective work ahead.

Universities, imperialism and the collective work ahead.

R&D of an Innovative OFDM Communication Payload for Small-Size AUV

With its superiorities of low cost, high flexibility and deployment convenience, small-size autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have been extensively applied to perform a variety of undersea missions. While underwater acoustic (UWA) communication provides a practical way to establish a wireless link, it still poses a significant challenge due to the strict limitations of a small-size AUV platform in terms of load capacity, energy supply and cost. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has drawn extensive attention due to its high data rate capability and relative robustness to multipath, the performance of which is unfortunately sensitive to the widespread Doppler effect. While efficient Doppler compensation is significantly crucial for UWA OFDM mobile communication, most of the conventional approaches are conducted using software resampling, thus rendering a huge burden on memory and calculation capability as well as a considerable processing delay. In this paper, from the perspective of hardware completion an UWA OFDM communication payload based on STM32F407 processor is designed and implemented to facilitate agile Doppler compensation with low computational overhead. In particular, after estimating Doppler by calculating the time compression or extension of the preamble signal, Doppler compensation is performed by directly adjusting the direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDS)-driven sampling rate of the analog-to-digital converter (ADC). As the Doppler is compensated parallel to the ADC acquisition, processing delay and memory requirement can be avoided. Finally, hardware-in-loop (HIP) simulation is performed to demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed system. The results show that the designed system has the potential to achieve an effective communication rate of 3.19 kbps with the admissible implementation overhead. Future work will entail the integration and performance evaluation of the proposed UWA OFDM communication payload on a practical small-size AUV platform.

How peer feedback affects knowledge contribution in online innovation communities: a social identity perspective

PurposeThe research aims to explore the influence mechanism of peer feedback and users' knowledge contribution behavior. This study draws on the social identity theory and considers social identity as a mediating factor into the research framework.Design/methodology/approachThis paper collected users' activity data of 142,191 ideas submitted by 76,647 users from the MIUI community between October 2010 and May 2018 via Python software, and data were processed using Stata 16.0.FindingsThe results indicate that knowledge feedback and social feedback positively influence users' knowledge contribution (quantity and quality), respectively. User's cognitive identity positively mediates the relationship between peer feedback and knowledge contribution behavior, affective identity positively mediates the relationship between peer feedback and knowledge contribution behavior, while evaluative identity positively mediates the relationship between peer feedback and knowledge contribution quality, but there is no mediating effect between peer feedback and knowledge contribution quantity.Originality/valueThis study advances knowledge management by highlighting peer feedback on online innovation communities. By demonstrating the significant mediating effect of social identity, this study empirically clarifies the relationships of peer feedback (knowledge feedback and social feedback) to specific dimensions of knowledge contribution, thereby providing managerial guidance to the online innovation community on incentivizing and managing user interaction to foster the innovation development of firms.