Innovation-related Factors Research Articles

Acceptance of Digital Health Care Technology and the Role of Nursing Education.

As digital health care technology develops, the use of technology in the nursing field has become an essential part of nursing education. However, few studies have linked nurses' awareness of digital health care with nursing education. This study examines the direct effects and mediating effects of factors in technology acceptance on nurses' intention to accept digital health care technology. To empirically investigate these relationships, a survey was conducted among nurses in South Korea. This study emphasizes the importance of a multifaceted approach that considers personal, organizational, and innovation-related factors in understanding nurses' intentions toward acceptance of digital health care technologies. The findings confirm that performance expectancy and facilitating conditions play crucial roles in nurses' acceptance of digital health care technologies. The mediating effects of performance expectancy and facilitating conditions on intentions to accept technologies suggest that these factors can also play vital indirect roles. [J Contin Educ Nurs. 202x;5x(x):xx-xx.].

Инновации как фактор экономического роста: регрессионный анализ мировых экономик / Innovation as a Factor of Economic Growth: Regression Analysis of World Economies

This paper investigates the relationship between innovative development and macroeconomic indicator of GDP per capita in different countries. Using a robust regression model, we analyze how investment in innovation, research and development (R&D) expenditures, and other innovation-related factors contribute to economic growth. Our results show a significant positive correlation between the innovation index and GDP per capita, suggesting that countries that prioritize innovation tend to achieve better economic performance. These findings emphasize the importance of fostering innovation to enhance economic prosperity and provide a roadmap for sustainable growth.

The Contribution of Innovations to the Growth and Competitiveness of South African Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) are crucial for the growth of economies and the creation of jobs in most emerging nations. This study’s goal is to investigate and evaluate how innovations affect the development and competitiveness of SMEs in South Africa. Purposive sampling was used to identify the study participants. The study uses a quantitative research approach that enables the collection and analysis of numerical data from a sample size of 400 SME owners and managers. According to the study’s findings, SMEs that are innovative in their operations have a higher chance of surviving, expanding, and remaining competitive in the market than those that are not. It has been found that a variety of innovation-related factors, such as product innovation, process innovation, marketing innovation, and organisational innovation, have a considerable positive impact on the development and competitiveness of SMEs. The study suggests that governments, trade groups, and business support organisations should play a significant part in fostering an atmosphere that encourages innovation among SMEs.

Finance-induced Innovation: A New Mechanism Explaining Finance-Inequality Relationship


 
 
 This paper uncovers a new mechanism through which financial development affects in- come inequality. We first revisit the effect of financial development on inequality using a panel of 94 countries from 1980 to 2017. The results show that both credit and equity markets development are positively related to different measurements of inequality, and the results are robust to endogeneity tests and other specifications. We then show empirically that this positive finance-inequality relationship can be explained by finance-induced innova- tion, especially by the finance-induced high-technology innovation. We further find that this mechanism seems to be more important than other innovation-related factors in explaining the finance-inequality relationship in low- and middle-income countries.
 
 

The influence of the technological regime on the performance of Italian innovative start-ups

ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship scholars interested in the performance of innovative start-ups mainly focus on the internal factors related to innovation processes. In the present paper, the research perspective used to study the performance of innovative start-ups is broadened by also considering the influence of the context – more specifically, the technological regime, defined as the state of the art of the technological environment resulting from technological changes/upgrades. Thus, the objective of this study is to investigate if and to what extent the technological regime can affect the performance of innovative start-ups. Statistical elaborations for about 11,760 Italian innovative start-ups (data are retrieved from the Italian Ministry of Economic Development website and are current up to January 2021) are carried out through the estimation of a stochastic frontier analysis: a parametric model. This methodology identifies the causes of inefficiency and disentangles random from technical inefficiency of the model. The results reveal that the technological regime affects performance but, unexpectedly, does not boost the impact of internal factors (related to innovation processes) on performance. The main conclusion is that internal innovation-related factors and the technological regime do not benefit each other when innovation processes are managed in innovative start-ups.

Are quality improvement plans perceived to improve the quality of primary care in Ontario? Qualitative study.

To explore primary care administrators' perceptions of provincially mandated quality improvement plans, and barriers to and facilitators of using quality improvement plans as tools for improving the quality of primary care. Qualitative descriptive study using semistructured interviews. Ontario. Eleven primary care administrators (ie, executive directors, director of clinical services, office administrators) at 7 family health teams and 4 community health centres. All interviews were audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. Data were analyzed deductively to generate a framework based on a conceptual model of structural, organizational, individual, and innovation-related factors that influence the success of improvement initiatives and, inductively, to generate additional themes. Provincially mandated quality improvement plans seem to have raised awareness of and provided an overall focus on quality improvement, and have contributed to primary care organizations implementing initiatives to address quality gaps. Four factors that have contributed to the success of quality improvement plans relate to attributes of the quality improvement plans (adaptability and compatibility) and contextual factors (leadership and organizational culture). However, participants expressed that the use of quality improvement plans have not yet led to substantial improvements in the quality of primary care in Ontario, which may be owing to several challenges: poor data quality, lack of staff and physician engagement and buy-in, and lack of resources to support measurement and quality improvement. Awareness of and focused attention on the need for high-quality patient care may have increased, but participants expressed that substantial improvements in quality care have yet to be achieved in Ontario. The lack of perceived improvements is likely the result of multifaceted and complex challenges primary care organizations face when trying to improve patient care. To effect positive change, organization- and health system-level efforts are needed to improve measurement capabilities, improve staff and physician engagement, and increase capacity for quality improvement among organizations.

Start-ups' innovation processes and performance in the food industry: a stochastic frontier analysis

PurposeThe food industry has always been supplier dominated, characterised by low research intensity, product line extensions and me-too products. However, recent changes have led new firms operating in the food industry to invest in research and development (R&D) activities in order to introduce innovations into the market and achieve superior performance. This paper aims to verify whether these changes are noteworthy by investigating whether and which innovation-related factors (investments in R&D activities, qualified scientists/engineers and holding a patent) can affect the performance of food start-ups.Design/methodology/approachA sample of 108 innovative start-ups operating in the food industry in Italy was selected, and a stochastic frontier analysis was carried out. This methodology was chosen because of the factorisation of the error term, which is divided into a unilateral component (revealing the inefficiency of the statistical model) and a symmetric component (revealing random gaps).FindingsStatistical elaborations provide two interesting results. One concerns the error term (only random inefficiency affects results) and the other relates to innovation-related factors. Only investments in R&D activities positively affect the performance of innovative start-ups in the Italian food industry.Originality/valueResults confirm the relevance of investments in R&D activities for Italian start-ups aiming to achieve superior performance in the food industry. These results confirm relevant changes are occurring in what was a supplier-dominated industry and disclose how start-ups should master the dynamics of innovation and allow for speculation on future industry trends.

Factors for and against resistance to smart services: role of consumer lifestyle and ecosystem related variables

PurposeConsumers are increasingly connected to, and make use of, a multitude of technologies in their daily lives. The exponential growth in the use of Internet of Things (IoT)-based services is ushering in a new era of e-services, in which the service experience is becoming autonomous (intelligence), devices are intercommunicating (connectivity) and consumers can access the service anytime, anywhere and using any device (ubiquity). However, a number of challenges have arisen. The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors that reduce consumer resistance to smart services (factors against resistance) and factors that promote this resistance (factors for resistance), by means of a dual-factor approach.Design/methodology/approachTo test this theoretical model, the authors developed a Web-based survey and used structural equation modeling.FindingsResults show that consumer-lifestyle factors (individual “mobiquity” and self-image congruence) reduce consumer resistance to smart services (factors against resistance). Conversely, innovation-related factors (perceived security, perceived complexity) and ecosystem-related factors (perceived government surveillance and general skepticism toward IoT) promote consumer resistance to smart services (factors for resistance). In addition, general skepticism toward IoT has a significant positive effect on perceived complexity, perceived security risk and perceived government surveillance.Originality/valueThis research investigates consumer resistance to smart services using a dual-factor perspective (Cenfetelli, 2004; Claudy et al., 2015): factors reducing resistance versus factors promoting resistance. This paper provides evidence for the importance of consumer lifestyle-related factors, innovation-related factors and ecosystem-related factors in explaining consumer resistance to smart services. This work enriches previous studies of consumer resistance to innovation (Ram and Sheth, 1989; Ram, 1987) by studying original variables (individual mobiquity, technological innovativeness, government surveillance).

Measuring urban competitiveness: ranking European large urban zones

Purpose This paper aims to identify the main dimensions that determine the ability of cities to compete as locations for business and hubs for investment which can help policymakers to manage and prioritize urban development strategies. Design/methodology/approach A composite indicator is proposed as a weighted aggregate of sub-indicators for the identified component dimensions (basic, efficiency-related and innovation-related competitiveness). The indicator is used to draw up a ranking of 159 European Large Urban Zones (LUZs) located in 26 EU countries based on 31 indicators, broken down into the three core dimensions of urban competitiveness identified. Findings The dimensions underlying urban competitiveness in relation to the location of firms and attracting investment determine the level of economic development of the LUZs. The most competitive cities in the sample have a high level of economic development, and the innovation dimension is the most significant one for the three groups of cities considered, followed by the efficiency dimension and, to a lesser extent, the basic dimension. Practical implications The findings provide guidance to policymakers on the most relevant dimensions for urban competitiveness. Originality/value This paper contributes to the literature shedding light on the complex relationships between efficiency-related and innovation-related factors with regard to urban competitiveness.

Are Litigated Patents More Valuable? The Case of Light Emitting Diodes

Recently the LED sector has been growing very rapidly, with an expanding knowledge base and an increasing array of markets in which LEDs are used. Consequently, the number of LED-related patents has increased exponentially, as well as the amount of patent litigations. One of the factors that can hamper innovation in such high growth fields is when incumbent firms use their patent pools to deter innovation by competitors, especially by smaller firms. If so, patents would undermine innovation instead of supporting it, and thus undermining the LEDs huge potential of energy savings. To shed light on the extent to which LED patents might be used to deter innovation in the sector, we examine the nature of litigated patents, compared with non-litigated patents, and explore the main drivers of patent lawsuits. The results indicate that litigated LED patents are significantly higher quality scientifically than non-litigated ones. This has two implications. First, LED incumbent firms do not seem to be using strategic manoeuvring, and that patent litigations in the LED sector are the result of innovation-related factors, rather than being guided by mere profiteering. Second, this conclusion does not imply that patent protection fosters innovation in the LED sector, because a concentration of patents in the hands of incumbent firms reduces technological variety, which mainly comes from small and innovative firms.

Factors affecting ICT adoption among rural users: A case study of ICT Center in Iran

Rural ICT centers are the initiative of the third millennium and widen the accessibility horizons of information and Communication Technology among disadvantaged groups of societies, and play a significant role in rural development processes. Adoption of new technology in rural Iran has been the main challenge and focal point of all agricultural extension activities since the modernization era of the 1950s. Consequently the rapidly growing gap between urban and rural economy has reinforced the critical role of ICT in creating an equal society. Identifying the factors which foster adoption of ICT is among the important challenges of alleviating digital divide. ICT centers attract different groups within rural communities and create a forum for unprivileged rural settlers to learn about and to use computer and internet. This paper attempts to identify the factors influencing the adoption of ICT in rural Gharn Abad's ICT center of Golestan Province. The sample included 218 individuals, who were selected by stratified random sampling method. Survey method was used, and data was analyzed by correlation as well as multiple regression techniques. Based on the results, the existence of ICT center itself, with various funding sources, reinforced the adoption regardless of the users' economic status. At the same time, the other factors such as individual, social, the households' informative & communicative, as well as the innovation related factors were found influential. This case study could be used as a sample for planning, establishing, and developing the ICT centers in the other similar situations.

Drivers and Inhibitors to XBRL adoption

The eXtensible business reporting language is an XML-based standard, which has the potential to significantly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of intra- and inter-organizational information supply chain. In this article, we present the case for using convergent interviews as an appropriate and efficient method for modelling factors impacting the adoption of emerging and under-researched innovations, such as XBRL. Using this method, we identify environmental, organizational and innovation-related factors as they apply to XBRL adoption and diffusion. Contentious factors, such as the role of government organizations, XBRL education and training, and the readiness of XBRL as an innovation and its supporting software solutions is examined in more detail. Further, practical adoptions strategies and their implications are also discussed.

Innovation modes in the Swiss service sector: a cluster analysis based on firm-level data

The aim of this paper is, firstly, to contribute to the understanding of innovation patterns in services. To this end, firms which are similar in terms of a large set of innovation indicators were grouped into clusters. For the Swiss case, it was possible to identify five clusters which exhibit clearly different configurations of a large number of innovation-related factors (appropriability, etc.) and several structural properties of firms (size, etc.). The clusters may thus be interpreted as specific “innovation modes”. Secondly, we investigated whether these modes are “economically equivalent”. In such a case, the unordered classifying of similar firms would be more appropriate than the ranking of industries according to their innovativeness. The evidence supports the classification approach quite well; however, the ranking procedure cannot be completely refuted. Finally, this paper yields some insights into the differences between the innovation patterns prevailing in services and in manufacturing.