Creative Investment Research Articles

가족통제와 혁신투자와의 관계에 대한 연구: 창업가문의 조절효과

In this paper, we attempted to validate the impact of family businesses, a distinct corporate structure, on innovative behavior. The role of family control, which is unique to family businesses, received special attention. In this study, we used agent theory and social-emotional wealth theory to test the effect of family control on creative investment. Furthermore, we attempted to confirm the moderating effect of the negative (-) of political connection, as well as the moderating effect of the definition of entrepreneurship as moderating variables that influence the effect of family control on innovative behavior. To that goal, the research hypotheses were validated using 5,120 samples of 1,024 family businesses listed from 2015 to 2019. According to the study's findings, the family control ratio and innovative behavior have a negative (-) link, and family control in publicly listed family enterprises that have started their own ventures can reduce the negative impact on corporate innovation investment. But, the political connection has been rejected. According to this study, the more the family composition control, the lower the corporate innovation investment; so, if family businesses want to grow, they should encourage innovative behavior and increase their interest in innovation support policies. Furthermore, it should be recognized that family control of self-starting family businesses can minimize negative effects on corporate innovation investment and increase availability.

The Beneficial Role of Silicon Valley's Technological Innovations and Venture Capital in Strengthening Global Financial Markets

This research explores the substantial influence of Silicon Valley's technology environment on worldwide financial markets. It looks at how Silicon Valley's technology developments and venture capital improve market efficiency, boost economic growth, and help to stabilize world financial institutions. The results highlight the importance of Silicon Valley's venture capital firms in not just providing vital financing but also in strategically selecting and growing entrepreneurs to include into a larger economic network. The increase in productivity in different industries is thanks to the groundbreaking advancements in artificial intelligence and microprocessor technology in Silicon Valley. These progressions have not just improved operational effectiveness greatly but also encouraged the emergence of fresh markets. Indoor air quality challenges emphasize the need for innovation in building design. (Ashayeri, M., Piri, S., & Abbasabadi, N, 2024). Dimensionality reduction in multimodal deep learning enhances accuracy and reduces computational costs, critical for efficient AI applications. (M Bodaghi, M Hosseini, R Gottumukkala, 2024) Silicon Valley, a prime example of innovation, still showcases its significant impact on shaping present financial environments as it continues to prosper. Despite the fact that the total quantity of money invested in various countries throughout the globe is always growing, this is the case. The accomplishments of this area may serve as a model for other regions that are interested in promoting economic growth via the deployment of cutting-edge technology and creative investment methods. These places can learn from this region's successes.

When Zen Becomes Philosophy: The Case of Dōgen’s Uji

Abstract Dōgen is among the few authors from historic Japan who have received substantial attention in modern philosophical discourse. His thought on time figures prominently in this regard. Association between Uji 有時, the title of his short instruction on the subject, and Heidegger’s Being and Time has facilitated this integration into modern philosophical discourse. It is customary in this discourse to treat Dōgen’s writings as philosophical texts. Against this tendency, I apply the concept of ‘frames of equivalence’ from translation studies and demonstrate how the philosophical mode of reading leads to substantial shifts in all three dimensions of the semiotic process. In the pragmatic dimension, the religious impetus of Dōgen’s texts is toned down to an appeal in favor of certain epistemological and ontological commitments. In the syntactic dimension, the formal organization of his texts is ignored, obfuscating the overall structure and intent of his argument. Given the context-dependency of meaning, this leads to significant shifts in the semantic dimension as well. I argue that paying attention to frames of equivalence in reading Dōgen serves to identify creative investments and inadvertent projections. This prepares the ground for historically more accurate interpretations and prevents the misappropriation of ‘enlightened’ authority for philosophical hypothesizing.

Resilience of Sukuk Innovation Through Cash Waqf Linked Sukuk as an Instrument for Indonesia's Economic Recovery

Post-pandemic, the impact of the weakening global economy as well as in Indonesia, was felt by the public, plus the threat of an economic recession. The government is required to make a funding adjustment policy. One of the funding adjustment policies is changing the APBN allocation used to deal with post-pandemic socio-economic problems. The government has launched a new creative investment innovation that utilizes movable waqf as its object into state sukuk. Based on these problems, the research aims to offer a solution that is Cash Waqf Linked Sukuk in assisting government funding for Indonesia's economic recovery. The research method used is a qualitative research type of literature study with a descriptive approach as an analytical tool. The research data comes from secondary data in the form of Waqf Law, DSN-MUI Fatwa, government regulations regarding economic improvement plans and productive waqf books as well as previous research from scientific articles/journals. The results show that Cash Waqf Linked Sukuk can contribute to economic recovery through 2 sure channels; 1) Cash Waqf Linked Sukuk can assist government funding in supporting APBN funds through the development of educational facilities, health facilities, and public infrastructure. Second, Cash Waqf Linked Sukuk can at the same time provide support for economic equality in order to overcome socio-economic inequality through community empowerment from yield funds provided by the government.

Ambivalence, Creative Investment, Publishing and Development

The role of an academic editor and publisher is not simple. It is even less so when providing guidance and support for authors from the countries of the majority world becomes a habitual condition of this activity. Editorial commitment in this context becomes ambivalent, as it has to be oriented towards meeting two distinct objectives: ensuring academic quality and providing support to authors. To meet this challenge the publisher hopes to make the most of online tools and networks. If some scholarly work fails to be published, it raises the question whether authors would benefit from mentorship to improve their texts and thereby meet with international academic standards. The publisher cannot entirely compensate for the weakness of the research work, but should seek to mitigate it.

Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy

Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy

Book Review

Book Review

EvALLution: making basic evolution concepts accessible to people with visual impairment through a multisensory tree of life

BackgroundPeople with visual impairment have benefitted from recent developments of assistive technology that aim to decrease socio-economic inequality. However, access to post-secondary education is still extremelly challenging, especially for scientific areas. The under representation of people with visual impairment in the evolution research community is connected with the vision-based communication of evolutionary biology knowledge and the accompanying lack of multisensory alternatives for learning.ResultsHere, we describe the development of an inclusive outreach activity based on a multisensory phylogeny representing 20 taxonomic groups. We provide a tool kit of materials and ideas that allow both the replication of this activity and the adaptation of others, to include people with visual impairment. Furthermore, we provide activity evaluation data, a discussion of the lessons learned and an inclusive description of all figures and visual data presented.The presented baseline data show that people with visual impairment indeed have lack of access to education but are interested in and apt to understand evolutionary biology concepts and predict evolutionary change when education is inclusive.ConclusionsWe show that, with creative investment, basic evolutionary knowledge is perfectly possible to be transmitted through multisensory activities, which everyone can benefit from. Ultimately, we hope this case study will provide a baseline for future initiatives and a more inclusive outreach community.

Picturebook Format

The purpose of this paper is to present picturebooks as a special format instead of a literary genre, due to the growing relevance of book design and peritextual elements in defining the characteristics of this art form. The creative investment in the peritexts has implications in the construction of the message and in the reading process, creating an original artefact. The paper also describes different types of picturebooks and explores the influence of the picturebook format on other genres, underlining its importance in contemporary Portuguese publishing.

Rememorying Slavery: Intergenerational Memory and Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) and Conceição Evaristo’s Ponciá Vicêncio (2003)

AbstractThis paper looks at parallels in the articulation of memory and trauma between Toni Morrison’s Beloved and the more recent publication Ponciá Vicêncio, written in 2003 by the Afro-Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo. It examines the novels’ illustration of slavery trauma and the creative investment of descendants of slaves in re-presenting traumatic family history. With this concern, it proposes a comparative reading of Beloved and Ponciá Vicêncio, focusing, first, on their representations of the embodiment of trauma; second, on their respective concepts of rememory and memory-thoughts – or pensamentos-lembranças; and third, on the descendants’ engagement with the revision of narratives of family past, through the characters Denver and Ponciá.

Breaking upwards: the creative uncoupling of Desiree Akhavan and Ingrid Jungermann

ABSTRACTDesiree Akhavan and Ingrid Jungermann’s partnership engendered their pioneering web series 'The Slope' and launched their careers. As its second season fictionally chronicled, the couple’s breakout project coincided with their breakup—a subject each explored in her subsequent first feature: Akhavan’s 'Appropriate Behavior', about a recently uncoupled bisexual, and Jungermann’s 'Women Who Kill', about a commitment-phobic lesbian torn between her bisexual ex and a new love interest. The two continued to revisit their relationship’s afterlife with their solo forays into TV: Jungermann’s (stalled) adaptation for Showtime of her web series 'F to 7th', featuring a “homoneurotic” lesbian adrift in queerer-than-thou Brooklyn, and the now-U.K. based Akhavan’s Channel 4/Hulu co-production 'The Bisexual', about an American in London who, after ending a long relationship with her girlfriend/business partner, starts dating men. The reparative processes of relationship-mourning and self-examination portrayed in Akhavan and Jungermann’s work model a queer-feminist praxis that converts loss into cultural creation and critique. In continuing to serve as the structuring absence in each other’s fictional worlds, the ex-couple transforms their former romantic-erotic attachments into creative investments that defy masculinist and monogamist models of individualist authorship and proprietary coupling.

Disguised Subjectivity in Two Chinese Fictional Dream Narratives of the Qing

This article is an attempt to explore the emergence of subjectivity in two Qing classical short stories: while using classical patterns, they also reveal elements about the dreamers’ psychological states. The analysis shows that far from being clear-cut, the emergence of subjectivity was a non-linear process—a “premodern” way of writing. This disguised way of expressing subjectivity conveyed a renewed creative investment at a time when classical literature almost reached the edge of modernity.

The Shape of Desire

The Shape of Desire

More Unfair Claims About Fair Use: This Time in New Zealand

In two earlier papers I outlined how some stakeholders, large companies and private advocacy groups are currently engaged in a concerted effort to enact major copyright policy changes in Asia Pacific. (SSRN: Barker 2016 and Barker 2018). In this paper I review another new report this time written for Google in New Zealand, authored by Deloitte: Access Economics (2018) in New Zealand, entitled “Copyright in the digital age: An economic assessment of fair use in New Zealand”. This new report purports to assess the economic effect of introducing in to New Zealand law a US style statutory fair use exception to copyright found in the section 107 of the US Copyright Act of 1976 (henceforth called US Style fair use). This new Deloitte New Zealand (Deloitte NZ) report is in fact very similar to, and copies a lot of the material, from another paper in Australia written for Google in Australia, again by Deloitte: Access Economics (2018), also entitled ‘Copyright in the Digital Age’, which was the subject of one of my previous (second) review papers mentioned above Barker (2018). In this paper I review a number of errors in the Deloitte NZ report. Many of these errors replicate the Deloitte Australia Report. However there are key new elements in the Deloitte NZ report to address. The new material is in part due to differences between Australian and New Zealand law, and the fact Deloitte New Zealand replaced the anecdotal evidence in the Australian report, with anecdotal evidence from interviews in New Zealand to make its case more relevant to the local market. The Deloitte NZ report also relied heavily on a model from Scotchmer (2004) to make the case for US style fair use. This was not presented or relied on in the Australian report. I therefore provide a number of additional sections on this in my review of chapter two of the Deloitte NZ report. I also present a new critique of the Deloitte NZ economic model of the responsiveness of US style fair use in my review of chapter five of the Deloitte report, and include a new and better model that clearly contradicts Deloitte NZ's predictions. The main conclusions of my review of the Deloitte New Zealand Report however remain the same as that for the Deloitte Australia Report involving four key flawed assertions in the paper. Assertion 1: that substantial downstream value is lost as a result of current copyright law in New Zealand. The downstream uses of copyright works involved include: text and data mining, digital analytics, cloud computing, transformative, educational and informational uses involving existing copyright works. Assertion 2: that this downstream value is lost due to current copyright law in New Zealand reducing cumulative innovation, and that a US style fair use law can remedy that. Assertion 3: that creativity is booming in the digital world and that introducing a US style fair use law in New Zealand will benefit creative output. Assertion 4: that transaction costs would be lower under a US style fair use system. As we shall discuss this presents an unbalanced picture of the likely impacts of adopting a US style fair use law in New Zealand, the nature and extent of the real current market problems, the scope for market solutions to the alleged problems, the nature and role of copyright and of transaction costs. The Deloitte NZ paper is indeed based on a fundamental misinterpretation of copyright. It fails to adequately acknowledge that copyright merely requires the creator's consent, and provides the basis for a market in creative works and does not prevent use. The Deloitte NZ paper then does not adequately explain why any copyright market might be expected to fail in the manner alleged, nor why the proposed legal intervention (fair use) might be expected to improve outcomes. The Deloitte NZ paper also doesn’t present any real new evidence, particularly drawing on the so-called “big data” that must now be available on digital copyright market transactions. A more useful contribution would further have examined the practical limitations of licensing markets, and the extent to which these might be addressed by new digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence and distributed ledger technology in order to enhance creative market growth, investment and innovation.

More Unfair Claims About Fair Use in Australia

This paper extends an earlier review of five studies that have been used by a number of large companies and private advocacy groups to promote major copyright policy changes in Asia Pacific. The earlier paper identified how some of the key arguments used by the proponents of these changes were based on faulty or misleading interpretations of data. This paper reviews a new report that has been recently released, written for Google, and authored by Deloitte: Access Economics (2018). This review again isolates a number of false claims being made, this time about the economic effects of fair use in Australia, including four key flawed assertions in the paper. Assertion 1: that substantial downstream value is lost as a result of current copyright law in Australia. The downstream uses of copyright works involved include: text and data mining, digital analytics, cloud computing, transformative, educational and informational uses involving existing copyright works. Assertion 2: that this downstream value is lost due to current copyright law in Australia reducing cumulative innovation, and that Fair Use can remedy that. Assertion 3: that creativity is booming in the digital world and that introducing Fair Use in Australia will benefit creative output. Assertion 4: that transaction costs would be lower under a Fair Use system. As we shall discuss this presents an unbalanced picture of the likely impacts of adopting Fair Use in Australia, the nature and extent of the real current market problems, the scope for market solutions to the alleged problems, the nature and role of copyright and of transaction costs. The paper is indeed based on a fundamental misinterpretation of copyright. It fails to adequately acknowledge that copyright merely requires the creator's consent, and provides the basis for a market in creative works and does not prevent use. The paper then does not adequately explain why any copyright market might be expected to fail in the manner alleged, nor why the proposed legal intervention (fair use) might be expected to improve outcomes. The paper also doesn’t present any real new evidence, particularly drawing on the so-called “big data” that must now be available on digital copyright market transactions. A more useful contribution would further have examined the practical limitations of licensing markets, and the extent to which these might be addressed by new digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence and distributed ledger technology in order to enhance creative market growth, investment and innovation.

DEVELOPMENT OF LIEPAJA RESIDENTIAL AREA “GREEN GROVE” PLANNING AND SPATIAL STRUCTURES AFTER WORLD WAR II

In Liepaja 1960 building of residential buildings started, but in 1967 the Master Plan was confirmed: eastwards of industrial zone the residential area “Green Grove” (Latvian: Zaļā Birze) was envisaged, where architect Irēna Rubauska developed a three-stage detailed planning (1973) of five housing estates with multi-storey residential buildings. After Latvia Republic restoration a controversial period of ownership started: without analysis transformations were implemented in urban environment, promoting fragmentation of planning. Research issue – Soviet time heritage in Liepaja has not been studied sufficiently. Architectonically spatial of the residential area “Green Grove” composition has not been implemented, and housing estate’s further development is not resolved nowadays. Research novelty – urban planner Rubauska’s creative investment in urban development has been acknowledged. Research goal – the residential area “Green Grove” spatial structural analysis. Principal methods applied-planning and construction observation in nature, analysis of archive and cartographic materials, comparative method for conclusions. Summary of research outcomes: Rubauska’s intention of the residential area “Green Grove” without implementation, architectonically spatial composition is not solved any longer; nowadays topographical survey is not applied for Liepaja’s territorial zoning, watercourses are not marked, therefore schematic areas and approximate shapes of fortress canal do not provide impression of qualitative architectonically spatial formation.

Utopianism, transindividuation, and foreign language education in the Japanese university

This article examines the current state of foreign language education in Japanese universities as illustrative of the troubling conditions facing the liberal arts (i.e. the transformative arts) in a globalized neoliberal milieu. The utopian ideal in education has always insinuated, at the least, a pedagogy that inspires personal agency, creative investment, challenge to power and social change. This imagining of incalculable futures, however, has been undermined by the seemingly inevitable and confluent forces of a networked world, represented most forcefully by the socioeconomic reductionism of neoliberal globalism. In the context of contemporary Japanese higher education, these forces are joined by Japan’s uniquely ambivalent relationship with the ‘outside’ world, and manifested in the rigid conceptualizations that motivate deeply problematic government and institutional initiatives for the ‘globalization’ of higher education. Within the frame of Bernard Stiegler’s work on transindividuation (psychosocial transformation), this article critiques these influential practices as fundamentally antithetical to the challenge of engaging Japanese learners of foreign languages in sustainable ‘economies of contribution’—economies which foster critical engagement and which open paths to transindividuation. The article concludes by arguing for a radical reimagining of the landscape of foreign language pedagogy in Japan and for a repositioning of learners from ‘short-circuited’ semiotic consumers to ‘long-circuited’ semiosic participants.

DEVELOPMENT OF LIEPAJA RESIDENTIAL AREA “GREEN GROVE” PLANNING AND SPATIAL STRUCTURES AFTER WORLD WAR II

In Liepaja 1960 building of residential buildings started, but in 1967 the Master Plan was confirmed: eastwards of industrial zone the residential area “Green Grove” (Latvian: Zaļā Birze) was envisaged, where architect Irēna Rubauska developed a three-stage detailed planning (1973) of five housing estates with multi-storey residential buildings. After Latvia Republic restoration a controversial period of ownership started: without analysis transformations were implemented in urban environment, promoting fragmentation of planning. Research issue – Soviet time heritage in Liepaja has not been studied sufficiently. Architectonically spatial of the residential area “Green Grove” composition has not been implemented, and housing estate’s further development is not resolved nowadays. Research novelty – urban planner Rubauska’s creative investment in urban development has been acknowledged. Research goal – the residential area “Green Grove” spatial structural analysis. Principal methods applied-planning and construction observation in nature, analysis of archive and cartographic materials, comparative method for conclusions. Summary of research outcomes: Rubauska’s intention of the residential area “Green Grove” without implementation, architectonically spatial composition is not solved any longer; nowadays topographical survey is not applied for Liepaja’s territorial zoning, watercourses are not marked, therefore schematic areas and approximate shapes of fortress canal do not provide impression of qualitative architectonically spatial formation.

Potensi Pengembangan Investasi Berbasis Ekonomi Kreatif Di Kota Denpasar

This research aimed to analyze Investment Potentials and Investment Business Climate based on Creative Economies in Denpasar City. To achieve this research objective, Location Quotient (LQ), Anova, and Performance-Importance Analysis techniques were employed. This study utilized both secondary and primary data. The results showed that creative economy-based investment potentials and those which were expandable in Denpasar City including: Handicraft, Printing and Publishing, Fashion, Culinary and Music. There were differences in the impact of Number of Workforce and Investment and Economic Value per Creative Economy Sub-Sector as follows: the workforce posed significant impact on Handicraft, Printing and Culinary; while Investment and Economic Value significantly impacted Handicraft, Fashion and Culinary. Developments of creative economy-based investments which need to be prioritized, given attention to and properly handled by Denpasar City Government including: (i) Operational efficiency assistance, (ii) Product marketing assistance, (iii) Assistance in human resources quality improvement, (iv) Assistance in funding fulfillment through loans, (v) Assistance in maintenance of activity sustainability, (vi) Government assistance in product distributions.

Teacher learning communities: the landscape of subject leadership

Purpose – Teacher learning communities (TLCs) formed within subject departments are conceptualized as reform platform for facilitating school improvement and teacher development. The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which three TLCs were structured and managed for generating change capability in secondary schools in Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach – A review of the literature on the contribution of learning communities to teacher professional development, and the functions and styles of subject leadership provides the theoretical background of the study. Participant observations and semi-structured interviews were employed as the main instruments for the investigation into the potentials of TLCs for enhancing professional renewals. Narrative accounts were obtained from a total of 21 teachers (including three subject leaders) on the nature and process of their participation in the renewal projects. Findings – The findings of the interview study reveal the landscape of subject leadership orientations that shaped the collaborative practices, power relations and knowledge representations within TLCs. Variability is noted in the subject leaders’ concerns for harmonious relationship, executive control, professional growth and leadership empowerment. The spectrum of knowledge structure in these communities is marked by a hierarchical relationship on one end, and a heterarchical relationship on the other. Research limitations/implications – This paper portrays the dynamics within three TLCs, and depicts a continuum of three leadership styles. The literature on subject leadership in TLCs could be enriched with further investigations into the contextual variables and sources of influence that affect the choice of leadership orientations of subject leaders who grapple with a balance between managerial imperative for control and accountability and a learning imperative for participative explorations that satisfy teachers’ aspirations for autonomy and creative investments in their own professional enhancement. Practical implications – Subject leadership training should emcompass reflective discourse on epistemological beliefs and assumptions on teacher learning and development, and leadership orientations that shape collaborative professional renewal practices. Originality/value – While research studies conducted in the Western world show that reflective and collaborative inquiries within professional communities have helped to improve classroom practices and teacher development (e.g. Hord, 1997), yet little is known about the management practices of subject leaders that shape the internal cultural conditions, power relations and knowledge representation within their departments in the context of Hong Kong.