Innovation Competition Research Articles

Grasp the nettle or retreat: Dynamic effects decomposition of carbon trading policies from a spatial perspective

Under the emission reduction pressure of carbon trading policies (CTP), green innovation (GI) and pollution transfer (PT) are both viable options for meeting emission reduction targets. However, the current research has not systematically considered whether GI and PT coexist or whether there are differences in long-term and short-term dynamic decision making. It is crucial to investigate the dynamic effect of CTP on GI and PT. Taking China's CTP as the quasi-natural experiment, and based on Chinese provincial panel data from 2006 to 2019, this study evaluated decomposed the dynamic effects of CTP on GI and PT using a dynamic spatial difference-in-differences (DSDID) model. The results indicate that, (1) after the CTP promulgation, regional GI increased significantly, accompanied by a more obvious improvement in GI level in pilot areas than in non-pilot areas. The PT in the adjacent areas grew faster than PT in the pilot areas. (2) The CTP had significant long-term direct incentive and spatial spillover effects on GI, but also led to a short-term PT under the “pollution haven effect”. After a series of robustness tests, the dynamic effects were still significant. (3) The “competition for innovation (IC)” significantly enhanced the CTP incentive effect on GI under a siphoning effect, and the “competition for economic (EC)” intensified the PT effect caused by CTP because of collective irrational behavior. (4) In the strong GI capacity areas, the incentive effect of CTP on GI was higher than that in weak GI capacity areas, and the effect on PT was more significant. The mixed quota form driving effect on GI was greater than the free quota form, the free quota form had no significant PT effect on neighboring areas, while the mixed quota form led to a greater PT effect. Based on these findings, further put forward to improve the national carbon trading mechanism and market standards; construct a long-term GI incentive mechanism; account for the differences in local policies and regional joint actions on emissions reductions; construct a local government assessment and supervision mechanisms, which provides policy basis for promoting the “dual carbon” goal.

Can the Term Structure of Credit Promote the Green Innovation in China?

The term structure of credit is significant to the cultivation of green innovation ability and high-quality economic development in each province. Using panel data for thirty Chinese provinces from 2005 to 2019, this paper analyzes how the extending term structure of credit impacts the development of green innovation in each province and its internal mechanism. The results are as follows. Firstly, the extending term structure of credit has promoted green innovation, which is more remarkable in innovative provinces. Secondly, the mechanism analysis shows that the extending term structure of credit improves green innovation activities in provinces to a certain extent, thus reducing environmental pollution by mitigating emissions of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide. According to regulating effect analysis, the provincial competition for scientific and technological innovation and environmental protection helps to boost the positive effect of the extending term structure of credit on the development of green innovation. The conclusion of this study provides empirical evidence and policy suggestions for advancing the transmission mechanism of the term structure of credit, which optimizes the relevant governmental policies about green innovation promotion to further develop green innovation in various provinces.

Moderating Globalization: Is There a Role for Antitrust Law? A Comparison of the Relevance of Entry, Expansion and Imports in US and EU Merger Proceedings

This paper attempts to locate the issue of innovation and foreign entry, in particular new entrants from China, in recent US and EU merger decisions. In the first part, the paper examines to what extend US and EU authorities considered foreign entry in recent major merger decisions such as Bayer/Monsanto, Dow/DuPont and ChemChina/Syngenta. The outcome of this short analysis shows that the EU Commission has in recent years begun to accept the argument of foreign entry, in particular from China, as long as the market shares of the merging parties are not too high. The US has not explicitly discussed the question of foreign entry in the above-named decisions. However, in the case Whirlpool/Maytag the US authorities accepted, despite high market shares of the parties, the argument of foreign entry and approved the merger. With regards to innovation, entry into future product markets is not considered favourable to the merging parties by the EU Commission. ‘Innovation competition’ or early ‘pipeline products’ is rather used as an argument to demonstrate that the merging parties hold market power in product markets in the future. Based on the selected case law, the US authorities, by contrast, did recognize entry into future product markets as an argument in favour of the merging parties. In its second part, the paper looks at the pros and cons of forming ‘national champions’ and discusses competition law enforcement in light of the numerous and politically powerful Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Global competition/antitrust law and policy, foreign entry in merger decisions and China, innovation competition, entry criteria in US/EU mergers, climate change

A study of cognitive computing in nanosatellite constellations for synergic autonomy in CisLunar space

The small satellites have been changing the paradigm of space technology and implementation techniques ever since the NewSpace era has begun a stiff competition and dynamic atmosphere for innovation and recreation. Nanosatellites (ranging from 1 to 10 Kg) have been of significant importance since they have been launched and experimented in the past few decades. The constellations of these satellites will be a test of technology and management in due course of time. The complexity of operations and skilled functioning of the satellites in LEO and beyond is becoming crucial for the space industry and scientific communities. This paper will demonstrate the challenges, applications, and strategies to implement Artificial Intelligence (AI) optimally to make these constellations efficient and productive under the given scenarios and constraints. A thorough investigation through literature study has been initially done to observe and monitor the recent developments and envision the futuristic implementation of cognitive computing in CisLunar space. Hence, a detailed description of strategizing this artificial intelligence implementation in three classified regions as Low Earth Orbits (LEO), Transfer Region (TR), and Lunar Orbits (LO) to emphasize their crucial role in operating nanosatellites is significantly presented.

Formal Modeling of Innovative Competition in a Production System — an Evolutionary Approach

AbstractRelationships between innovations and competition are the main bases of an evolutionary approach to economic development. Innovation is recognized as a major force to achieve success in an intensively competitive environment, and competition is an essential element of the coordination mechanism required for economic changes to be successfully brought about. One of the first who well explore these relationships was Schumpeter. The idea that innovative competition may improve the positions of some groups of economic agents involved in the evolutionary processes is rooted within the neo-Schumpeterian research program. It suggests that the price mechanism typical for the routine behavior of agents should be replaced by a qualitative one to take into account the structural changes of an economy based on innovative and competitive processes as drivers of economic evolution. In this context, the main aim of this paper is to give a new setting of the phenomenon of innovative competition. This problem relates to the classification of different kinds of innovations and diversification among innovators. Moreover, two major concepts of competition are studied: the classical concept in which competition is viewed as a dynamic process and the neoclassical one in which competition is an end state of the evolutionary processes.

Multidisciplinary Integration in Undergraduate Environmental Protection Design Innovation

This paper examines the necessity and implementation of multidisciplinary integration in undergraduate environmental protection design innovation, using the 4th Urban Water Environment and Water Ecology Creative Competition as a case study. Firstly, it explores the significance of the innovation competition itself as a foundation for analyzing the impact of multidisciplinary integration on the development of participating students, faculty teams, and the advancement of disciplines. Secondly, it provides a detailed discussion on the outstanding achievements attained through the integration of three disciplines, namely environmental engineering, computer science, and art and design, within the context of the Water Environment and Water Ecology Creative Competition. Lastly, the paper concludes by summarizing the importance and value of multidisciplinary integration in undergraduate environmental protection design innovation. By presenting the insights and analysis outlined in this paper, readers can gain a comprehensive understanding of the role played by multidisciplinary integration in environmental protection design innovation, thereby offering valuable ideas and perspectives for teaching and research in related fields.

Marketing strategy and competitiveness: Evidence from Colombian SMEs

This study evaluates how three distinct marketing strategies (i.e., marketing communication, marketing innovation, and marketing uniqueness) impact the competitiveness level of Colombian SMEs. We use a unique primary dataset drawn from the Global Competitiveness Project that includes information for 176 Colombian SMEs during 2019. We employ a regression model to test the proposed hypotheses highlighting the relevance of marketing innovation, uniqueness, and communication for SMEs' competitiveness. The findings reveal that Colombian SMEs are frequent users of marketing strategies. Results show that larger SMEs that use marketing strategies are more competitive than smaller ones. It was also found that strategic emphasis, which implies that SMEs work with one of the evaluated strategies, contributes to competitiveness. However, managers should consider the synergistic effects of using more than one strategy. The relevance of this study is to present a model that shows how larger SMEs can capitalize on different marketing strategies to consolidate their competitiveness level in the Colombian context.

Exploring Novel Innovation Strategies to Close a Technology Gap in Neurosurgery: HORAO Crowdsourcing Campaign

Scientific research is typically performed by expert individuals or groups who investigate potential solutions in a sequential manner. Given the current worldwide exponential increase in technical innovations, potential solutions for any new problem might already exist, even though they were developed to solve a different problem. Therefore, in crowdsourcing ideation, a research question is explained to a much larger group of individuals beyond the specialist community to obtain a multitude of diverse, outside-the-box solutions. These are then assessed in parallel by a group of experts for their capacity to solve the new problem. The 2 key problems in brain tumor surgery are the difficulty of discerning the exact border between a tumor and the surrounding brain, and the difficulty of identifying the function of a specific area of the brain. Both problems could be solved by a method that visualizes the highly organized fiber tracts within the brain; the absence of fibers would reveal the tumor, whereas the spatial orientation of the tracts would reveal the area's function. To raise awareness about our challenge of developing a means of intraoperative, real-time, noninvasive identification of fiber tracts and tumor borders to improve neurosurgical oncology, we turned to the crowd with a crowdsourcing ideation challenge. Our objective was to evaluate the feasibility of a crowdsourcing ideation campaign for finding novel solutions to challenges in neuroscience. The purpose of this paper is to introduce our chosen crowdsourcing method and discuss it in the context of the current literature. We ran a prize-based crowdsourcing ideation competition called HORAO on the commercial platform HeroX. Prize money previously collected through a crowdfunding campaign was offered as an incentive. Using a multistage approach, an expert jury first selected promising technical solutions based on broad, predefined criteria, coached the respective solvers in the second stage, and finally selected the winners in a conference setting. We performed a postchallenge web-based survey among the solvers crowd to find out about their backgrounds and demographics. Our web-based campaign reached more than 20,000 people (views). We received 45 proposals from 32 individuals and 7 teams, working in 26 countries on 4 continents. The postchallenge survey revealed that most of the submissions came from single solvers or teams working in engineering or the natural sciences, with additional submissions from other nonmedical fields. We engaged in further exchanges with 3 out of the 5 finalists and finally initiated a successful scientific collaboration with the winner of the challenge. This open innovation competition is the first of its kind in medical technology research. A prize-based crowdsourcing ideation campaign is a promising strategy for raising awareness about a specific problem, finding innovative solutions, and establishing new scientific collaborations beyond strictly disciplinary domains.

Reflections on the Current Situation and Breakthrough Path of Red Rural Tourism under the Strategy of Rural Revitalization

The development of red rural tourism is of great practical significance in the overall promotion strategy of rural revitalization, and it is an important means for rural residents to get rid of poverty and become rich and to promote overall revitalization. This paper sorts out the current situation of red rural tourism, puts forward the problems at the present stage, and thinks about its breakthrough path. In the new era, the red rural tourism should improve the mechanism, strengthen the standardized management, take into account the ecological civilization and innovation competition, and play the role of the government. We will further boost the vitality of red rural tourism and encourage the construction of new models.

Substitutability in R&D and Open Innovation: Why Competing Firms Face a Paradox of Openness?

AbstractWe explore how substitutability between internal and external R&D influences business conduct with regard to R&D approaches and their implementation with the support of managerial resources in a competitive innovation game. We develop a duopoly model which incorporates the assumption of substitutability due to managerial diseconomies of scope in firms using different innovation mechanisms to access technology. We establish that firms substitute internal sources of innovation for external sources as exogenous spillovers increase to manage the diseconomies of scope. We find a tension between the knowledge disclosures and the protections of innovation returns that arises as a paradox for firms. The finding of a positive association between the choice of a firm to be connected with the R&D environment and the appropriability of its innovation returns is understood to be consistent with empirical results of a paradox of openness that firms open to external sources of innovation face.

Preface

International Conference on Recent Advances in Wireless Communications & Emerging Technologies RAWCET-2022 This International Conference RAWCET 2022 is organized by Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Educational Foundation, India in association with IETE, IEEE communication, MTT student chapter and communication System Research Group (CSRG). The Conference aims to provide a platform to learn and share knowledge on Advanced Wireless Communication, RF and Modern antenna applications. It provides a forum for exchange of ideas and authoritative views by Research Community from Industry& Academia from National and International fraternity. Outstanding keynote speakers and well-known leading scientists and experts drawn across the globe shared their knowledge. We endeavour to bring individuals from various fields, and to make a setting in which they can collaborate synergistically, and ideally make new logical outcomes.The conference leads to the conclusions that 21st century communications throw light on the challenges to system designers, manufacturers and researches in their field related to ingenious Wireless Communication, Space Technologies, Data Communication, RF, Antennas, Signal Processing and Robotic Communication. The Wireless meeting offers key insights into cutting-edge applications from global experts, start-ups, and the winners of World’s major innovation competitions for space applications. Over and above all, this conference opened new avenues and paved the pathways for the future generations by introducing innovative techniques and paradigms to face the challenges and transform into ‘opportunistic communications.We are sure that this conference will definitely trigger lively discussions and present researchers to new developments. Finally, we appreciated the experienced expertise and young researchers for bringing innovative ideas to our conference.List of Organizing Committee Members are available in this pdf.

Practice and thinking of scientific data standard in China

Scientific data standards and specifications are crucial to promote the sharing of data resources. Research on their changes and development is of great significance to give full play to the value of data and enhance the competitiveness of national scientific and technological innovation. In this paper, we surveyed the current situation of scientific data standards and specifications in China and sorted out the new characteristics of standards and specifications at present. We further put forward some thoughts about and suggestions on the construction of scientific data standards and specifications in China, including giving full play to the technical support of data standards and specifications, strengthening the research and development of international standards and association standards, and continuously tracking and evaluating the effect of standard application.

Green Innovation for Competitiveness: Impact on GDP Growth in the European Union

Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, the global climate has changed dramatically. Concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere have increased sharply, followed by an increase in global average temperatures. However, business activities related to environmental protection are mostly focused on the implementation of legal rules instead of voluntary initiatives such as green innovation due to doubts about costs and profit. The goal of this research is to identify the impact of green innovation on economic growth in an innovative environment and digitalization conditions by using sophisticated indexes and regression analysis. The results show that green innovations have a positive impact on economic growth in the European Union (EU). However, the impact of digitalization on economic growth is still under discussion and depends on qualitative aspects of coverage and how they are reflected in digitalization indicators. It is important to emphasize that the data of this empirical study only cover EU countries that are subject to EU regulation and have similar trends in the development and diffusion of green innovations. Non-EU countries may have different approaches and policies influencing the maturity and diffusion of green innovations. The results of this research provide a scientific basis for strategic planning at the national and business levels, encouraging a focus on the development of green innovation not only as a means of reducing the impact of climate change but also as a strategic direction for increasing competitiveness and economic growth.

SOCIAL COMPONENT IN THE MODERN NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM

With the intensification of globalization processes and the high level of competition in international, regional and national markets, innovation has acquired the status of a major advantage for any country and has become the basis for ensuring its sustainable economic development. The use of new knowledge and technologies provides an opportunity to implement and intensify innovation and, as a result, to build an efficient and competitive innovation economy. Based on the above, the question arises of building a fundamentally new national innovation system, adapted to the socio-technological challenges, which should determine the competitive position of the national economy in the global arena. In this context, social capital, as a factor of readiness for technological transformations of the state and strengthening of competitive positions in the international markets, forms the basis for the expansion of research and transformation of the NIS. The purpose of the article is a theoretical substantiation of objective processes of transformation of NIS, taking into account modern trends and identifying the role and place of the social component in it. Given the fact that scientific and technological progress is an inevitable process, the relationship between the center and the periphery of the global economic system is characterized by unequal scientific and technological exchange, in which the peripheral countries are forced to pay intellectual rents contained in imported goods and services, as well as to act as a raw material and production appendage of the developed countries. The subject of the article is the transformation processes that take place in modern innovation systems under the influence of global challenges, as well as the social component, which is undoubtedly the driving force in the modern world for the promotion of domestic innovations, the development of high-tech business, and the increase of the level of technological readiness of society. The methodological basis of the study is the historical-logical method, the system-structural analysis of economic processes and phenomena, and the methods of qualitative comparison. Results. Social capital in NIS acts as a kind of litmus test, reflecting its efficiency and competitiveness, since the functionality and social role of the innovation system is expressed in providing society with innovations, technological goods, products and services that effectively satisfy the entire spectrum of human needs.

The life and writings of Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk, being a son of a family with republican ideas, has always felt and seen his strong dependence on Western intelligence, the expression of which is also visible in his works. Thus, Orhan Pamuk is the author of 11 novels and articles-conversations, biographical and small-scale works written on various topics, which are still known to the world's reading-society. And this set of the most controversial, most read and bestselling books of modern Turkish literature has brought Orhan Pamuk the fame and wide recognition in the local and foreign literary worlds, being translated into 60 languages and distributed in approximately 11 million copies. The secret of Orhan Pamuk's worldwide success is determined especially by his dual "Cultural Politics", the plot and ideological direction of his works, which reflect the questions existing in Islamic and Christian cultures, as well as the interpenetrations of the two worlds: the West and East, the search for ways to bring each other closer together, with a competition of tradition and innovation, in which the traditions of Eastern storytelling are combined with elements of Western modernism, ultimately creating works of "exquisite beauty" in an "intellectual, witty and elegant" style. While completing our article, we should note that the biography and bibliography of Orhan Pamuk's works will be enriched with new information, because the writer lives and creates in our days, for whom writing is a way of life, a constant desire to be in other worlds, and a refuge from reality.

Comparing Best Practice Public Service Innovation in East Java: Type, Distribution, and Consequences

The Public Service Innovation Competition (KIPP) organized by the Kemenpan-RB has yielded numerous award-winning innovations since its inception in 2014. The competition attracts participation from government agencies at the national, local, and village levels. In particular, local governments in East Java have consistently produced the majority of winners in the Top 99 public service innovations category, partly due to the abundance of capable Regional Heads in the region who foster innovation. Given their superior performance, it is pertinent to assess the extent to which innovation has been adopted in East Java since 2014. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the type, distribution, and impact of public service innovation across all local governments in East Java. The researcher utilized best practices research methodology and analyzed the Kemenpan-RB's top 99 report documents on public service innovation. The findings reveal that there has been substantial progress in the development of public service innovation in East Java, with the Regency Government being the leading innovator. Moreover, innovation has been integrated into the core mission of local governments across East Java. However, there is a need for local governments at all levels to adopt digital innovation and engage in collaborative problem-solving with other institutions to meet the evolving needs of the public.

Digital innovation and entrepreneurship through open data-based platforms: Critical success factors for hackathons

Despite the fact that hackathons and digital innovation contests have emerged as substantial intermediaries in open innovation and entrepreneurship, knowledge about how hackathons and digital innovation contests impact innovation in cities is restricted. There is also a scarcity of models that aid in the organization and evaluation of digital innovation contests. The purpose of this article is to examine the stages for organizing hackathons and digital innovation contests and identifies factors leading to the successful implementation of open data hackathons and digital innovation competitions. Three hackathons and innovation contests held in Thessaloniki between 2014 and 2018 were studied. The proposed framework provides practitioners with options to hold digital contests while also advancing the state of the art in the fields of open data and innovation competitions. Organizers of hackathon events may find this paper useful because they can learn about the factors that must be taken into account to ensure the success of these events.

Leveraging Organizational Conditions for Innovation: A Typology of Facility Engagement in the Veterans Health Administration Shark Tank-Style Competition.

Introduction The development and spread of innovation are known challenges in health care. The US Veterans Health Administration (VHA) created a "Shark Tank"-style competition directed at frontline employees. In this annual, systemwide competition, employees submit innovations to the competition, and winning innovations receive support for implementation in other facilities. Method A multiple case study design was used to understand facility engagement in the competition, and the relationship between engagement and organizational conditions. The authors created a typology to describe the relationship between facility engagement in the competition and organizational conditions for innovation. Results Overall, there was high participation in the VHA's competition across all 130 facilities. The authors identified 7 mutually exclusive types of facility engagement. Discussion As expected, facilities with the most established conditions for innovation were the most engaged in the competition. Additionally, other facilities had various ways to be involved. Consequently, there may be benefit to the VHA tailoring how they work with facilities, based on organizational conditions. Larger facilities with ongoing research and more resources may be more suited to develop innovations, whereas smaller facilities could benefit from a focus on adoption. Conclusion These insights are valuable to the VHA and can be used by other health care systems to tailor innovation programs and allocate resources based on diverse needs across a vast health care system.

Acquisition strategy to access innovation: the EMC experience in learning lessons

ABSTRACT Large multinational IT companies are always trying to produce competitive innovation at a faster pace. Even giant IT corporations, however, are unable to produce sustainable technological innovation alone. Literature offers many alternatives to obtain external technologies, but there are few studies about acquisition strategy to obtain technology innovation. A case study was carried out in a multinational IT company, EMC, which has applied mainly the acquisition strategy to develop innovations and increase its competitive position. The company has acquired many technology-based IT companies in the U.S. and abroad, and this strategy showed effectiveness in value creation, leading them to increase their income, value and market capitalisation during this period. An important finding here is that, by combining acquisitions with increasing investments in R&D, EMC was able to leverage innovations and strengthen its competitiveness and global market presence. The EMC experience has also allowed proposing a graphical tool, showing which are the key management processes that might be considered to get successful in using the acquisition strategy to create values for the business through innovation. Associated with this tool, this study also presents a step-by-step procedure to guide practitioners on how to manage the strategy of acquisition to access innovation.

The impact of CIE education integrated with the BIG 6 teaching strategy on students’ innovative motivation, creativity, metacognition, and self-perceived employability

Facing the issue of a lack of talents with innovative competitiveness and entrepreneurial ability, the creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial ability has been regarded as a crucial factor in enhancing national competitiveness. Through establishing Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (CIE) educational skills and activities, this study used the BIG6 information search skills as a teaching strategy to cultivate students' entrepreneurial mindset and behavior, such as skills needed to start a new business that is beyond the currently available controllable resources. This study attempted to integrate creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship education with the Big Six (BIG 6) Information Stages teaching strategy, and explore its effectiveness on students’ innovative motivation, creativity, metacognition, and self-perceived employability. The subjects were 64 junior students from the Department of Design at a university of science and technology in Taiwan. They were divided into the experimental and control group, each group with 32 students. The results indicate that the experimental group shows significant improvement in innovative motivation, creativity, and metacognition in the Special Projects courses. Based on the findings, specific suggestions are proposed for reference in education.