Product Ownership Research Articles

Improving bioinformatics software quality through teamwork.

Since high-throughput techniques became a staple in biological science laboratories, computational algorithms, and scientific software have boomed. However, the development of bioinformatics software usually lacks software development quality standards. The resulting software code is hard to test, reuse, and maintain. We believe that the root of inefficiency in implementing the best software development practices in academic settings is the individualistic approach, which has traditionally been the norm for recognizing scientific achievements and, by extension, for developing specialized software. Software development is a collective effort in most software-heavy endeavors. Indeed, the literature suggests teamwork directly impacts code quality through knowledge sharing, collective software development, and established coding standards. In our computational biology research groups, we sustainably involve all group members in learning, sharing, and discussing software development while maintaining the personal ownership of research projects and related software products. We found that group members involved in this endeavor improved their coding skills, became more efficient bioinformaticians, and obtained detailed knowledge about their peers' work, triggering new collaborative projects. We strongly advocate for improving software development culture within bioinformatics through collective effort in computational biology groups or institutes with three or more bioinformaticians.

From Critical Raw Materials to Circular Raw Materials.

This perspective addresses the key challenge of advancing the use of Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) and proposes a transition towards circular raw material management. In the context of our current economy, the unsustainable consumption, environmental degradation, geopolitical risks, and economic vulnerabilities associated with CRMs highlight the limitations in ensuring long-term CRM availability, emphasizing the environmental, social, and economic implications. In response, this perspective underlines a multifaceted technological approach to mitigate CRM criticality, focusing on reducing CRM use, substituting CRMs with less critical materials, and enhancing recovery and recycling processes, with Design for Circularity as the most impactful solution. The latter advocates for a paradigm shift in product design and material utilization, emphasizing principles like modular design, product life extension, and the transition from product ownership to service models. Such a holistic approach is not only crucial for sustainable CRM management, but is also key to fostering a resilient and low-carbon economy.

The bright and dark sides of servitization under extended producer responsibility

Servitization has gained popularity with its concept of selling the functionality or use of a product rather than the product itself. However, the implications of EPR under servitization scenarios are not straightforward. On the one hand, servitization allows the manufacturer to retain ownership of the product, which mitigates the need for costly buyback procedures when the manufacturer is required to repurchase the end-of-use product under EPR. On the other hand, servitization expands the demand of consumers by allowing those who cannot afford the product to still use it by paying per use, thereby increasing the costs for manufacturers when it comes to recycling the product. To investigate the impact of EPR on servitization, we incorporate three distinct characteristics into the model: (i) pay-per-use pricing, (ii) the retention of product ownership, and (iii) repurchasing the end product due to EPR. The manufacturer strategically chooses among the pure sales model, servitization model, or a hybrid model that includes both options. Our findings indicate that without EPR, the manufacturer consistently prefers a hybrid model, as it provides better segmentation of different consumers. However, with EPR, the manufacturer will choose the pure sales model when the recycling rate is sufficiently high. Moreover, we find stringent EPR regulations with higher recycling rate may have negative environmental consequences. Based on these results, we emphasize the need for policymakers to carefully consider and set recycling rate.

How perceived value of augmented reality shopping drives psychological ownership

PurposeThis study proposes a framework that demonstrates how the perceived value of augmented reality (AR) shopping influences the formation of psychological ownership of product and technology. The mediating role of flow experience and the moderating role of perceived control are identified.Design/methodology/approachAn online survey study recruiting 480 participants who experienced AR shopping was conducted to test the hypotheses.FindingsFunctional value is negatively related to psychological ownership of product and technology whereas emotional value shows opposite effects. Flow experience mediates the relationships between functional/emotional value and psychological ownership of product and technology. Perceived control moderates the relationship between emotional value and flow experience, as well as the relationship between functional/emotional value and psychological ownership of product and technology.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest the importance of AR’s functional and emotional values in developing psychological ownership of product and technology. To mitigate the negative effect of functional value, AR designers should focus on creating emotionally engaging apps that induce a flow experience, thereby enhancing psychological ownership. Furthermore, AR apps should be designed to empower users with a sense of control in the AR experience.Originality/valueThis research contributes to the AR and psychological ownership literature. It introduces a model that can explain both the formation of psychological ownership of product and psychological ownership of technology, thereby expanding the current understanding. By adding perceived values as antecedents of psychological ownership, it enriches the psychological ownership literature. Moreover, it enhances the flow experience literature by demonstrating the role of flow experience in the formation of psychological ownership of product and technology.

Research On Copyright Ownership of Products Using Artificial Intelligence

Research On Copyright Ownership of Products Using Artificial Intelligence

Особенности налогообложения интернет-торговли

The article discusses new forms of platform interaction: online store and marketplace. To these concepts are given the definitions/ Was identified fundamental distinctive feature such as the transfer of the product ownership. An analysis of trading enterprises was carried out and those types of enterprises that implement distance trading were identified. Important attention in the article is paid to the issue of income generation as the object of tax and accounting. An example of the formation of income in the book of accounting of income and expenses (KUDiR) is given. In conclusion, the main threats to the taxpayer are presented in view of the specific application of accounting provisions.

When electric vehicles bump into sharing economy: Consumer's variety seeking in the sustainable transportation

The development of electric vehicles incurs the consumer's variety seeking in the sharing economy. In addition to being passengers on the sharing platform, customers can rent electric vehicles from the rental company as ride-hailing drivers, rather than purchasing from the manufacturing firm. In this article, we set up a game-theoretic model to study the customer's variety-seeking behavior in the new frenemy partnership and solve the equilibrium pricing strategy and quality decision for the rental company and the sharing platform. The numerical experiments show that the rental company's price is less influenced by the valuation heterogeneity, but the sharing platform's price is the opposite. Given some real-world examples of product ownership and product usage in sustainable transportation, we discuss the consumer's variety seeking and the company/platform's pricing strategy from both the passenger and driver sides.

Sustainable finance literacy and the determinants of sustainable investing

In this paper, we survey a large sample of Swiss households to measure sustainable finance literacy, which we define as the knowledge and skill of identifying and assessing financial products according to their reported sustainability-related characteristics. To this end, we use multiple-choice questions. Furthermore, we measure Swiss private investors' level of awareness about sustainable financial products using open-ended questions. We find that Swiss households, which are generally highly financially literate by international standards, exhibit low levels of sustainable financial literacy compared to the current working definitions of sustainable finance. Moreover, despite its low level, knowledge about sustainable finance is a significant factor in the reported ownership of sustainable products. The empirical results also show a relatively low level of awareness. Generally, these empirical findings suggest a need to create transparent regulatory standards and strengthen information campaigns about sustainable financial products.

A systematic conceptual review of financial access

AbstractFinancial access is used in practice and research as an important concept relevant to financial capability and financial well‐being. This study examines the literature on individual financial access and develops a conceptualization, definition, domains, and proposed items. Following a systematic conceptual review method, the review is based on 171 articles published during January 2012–August 2022 retrieved from Scopus and Dissertation and Thesis Global. Using grounded theory, data were coded related to financial access definition, concepts, measurement, and associated content. The domains identified were Mainstream Financial Products and Services, Institutional Practices of Available Mainstream Financial Service Providers, Individual Resources and Intrinsic Qualities and Abilities, and Individual Financial Action and Perceptions. Financial Products or Services Utilized by Social Programs to Provide Benefits was added. Study implications include the need to broaden the focus of policies and practices beyond ownership of financial products and services. Directions for future research are discussed.

Formation of an organizational and economic mechanism for increasing the economic stability of an enterprise in the management of intellectual property objects

The purpose of the study is to analyze the impact of macro- and microeconomic factors on the formation of the management system of intellectual property objects as a structural element of the organizational and economic mechanism of increasing the economic sustainability of the enterprise. The right of ownership of intellectual products is considered an institutional prerequisite for increasing the enterprise's sustainability on an innovative basis, and objects of intellectual property are determined as a critical factor of social production. In enterprise management's organizational and economic mechanism, attention is focused on goals and incentives. It is proposed to consider increasing the economic stability of the enterprise as a complex goal of management, the reengineering of which is initiated by disturbances of various etymologies with the dominant influence of external factors. As an adaptive tool for transforming the organizational and economic mechanism of enterprise management into an open system, the creation of conditions for the effective implementation of the formation, use, and distribution of intellectual property objects is proposed. The system's components of increasing the enterprise's innovative potential are highlighted, including strategic management of intellectual property, protection of intellectual property rights, management of the intellectual property portfolio, internal knowledge management, creation of an innovative culture, and optimization of financial management of intellectual assets. A comprehensive understanding of the prerequisites for protecting intellectual property rights in the context of the institutional system functioning at the national level is presented. It has been proven that the ability to transform intellectual property objects into an influential factor in acquiring sustainability by business entities depends on the quality of public-private partnerships in terms of relations between the government, businesses, and universities. Keywords: organizational and economic mechanism, economic stability, enterprise, intellectual property management, intellectual property objects, intellectual capital, national innovation system.

Evaluasi Keberlanjutan Usahatani Sayuran Dalam Sistem Agroforestry Di Daerah Aliran Sungai (DAS) Brantas Hulu, Jawa Timur, Indonesia Dengan Metode Multi Dimensional Scaling (MDS)

<p>Sustainable agricultural system is an agricultural system that is ecologically viable (environmentally friendly), economically viable and socially acceptable and does not conflict with the culture of the local community. The Upper Brantas River Basin (DAS) is one of the most strategic areas in East Java Province, Indoensia, because of its function as an area for providing raw water and producing environmental services. However, as time goes by, population growth in the area continues to increase, this can causing high pressure on land use for settlements, increasingly intensive agriculture, even on land with a slope of more than 30 degrees. One way to overcome this problem is by implementing agroforestry. The aim of this research is to evaluate the sustainability of vegetable farming using an agroforestry system from ecological, economic and socio-cultural dimensions in the Upper Brantas Watershed Area, as well as analyzing sensitive attributes that influence sustainability status. The number of respondents in this research is 60 which consist of farmers who have selected randomly, key informan and stakeholders. The data analysis method used is Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) through the Rap-farm coordination technique. The results of the research show that vegetable farming in the Upper Brantas watershed in the agroforestry system has a sustainability status that is in the 'moderately sustainable' category with an index score in the ecological dimensions of 76.30 (very sustainable), economic of 54.83 (quite sustainable) and social culture of 63.06 (quite sustainable). Sensitive attributes in the ecological dimension are waste recycling and livestock ownership, the economic dimension is land ownership and marketing of agricultural products, and the socio-cultural dimension is the health level of farming households.</p>

The Rise of Invisible Economy and its Philosophical Reflection

Since the new century, the progress of science and technology and the rational transformation of its achievements have brought about the rapid rise of intangible economy. The knowledge-based, image-based, programmatic, and branded nature of capital, as well as the spillover, sharing, and unstable ownership of products, are its prominent features. The rise of intangible economy has overturned the traditional economic operation mode in various fields such as economic structure, industrial pattern, organizational mode, and labor form, and has also triggered philosophical thinking about this new economic paradigm: data elements have become the first production factor with ontological significance, and the elasticity of labor mode has brought about the spiritual illusion of free and autonomous labor, and social polarization is rapidly intensifying.

Analysis of Multimedia Touch Screen Visual Needs of Pre-School Children in the Digital Era

In the advent of the intelligent digital era, numerous industrial products' operations and functionalities have been replaced by digital multimedia touch screens. This shift signifies the gradual integration of digital intelligence visualization into people's lives, work, and learning. Intelligent touch screen devices have replaced mechanically complex office, learning, and entertainment equipment, entering people's lives. This study initially collected relevant domestic and international equipment and research situations, finding that China holds the highest proportion in this category of products and research direction, with considerable accumulated experience. Considering this phenomenon and existing related research, this study focused on pre-school children as the research subjects, investigating the tactile visual and reminder aspects of children's digitized multimedia intelligent touch screen devices. The study revealed that the ownership and usage of such products are significantly influenced by the children's age and their family-related circumstances. Although the elements during usage show minimal differences, combining relevant data highlights pre-school children's visual and interactive requirements during usage. This research conducted surveys and analysis on 102 pre-school children's parents in relatively developed and open areas in China, regarding pre-school children's multimedia touch screen needs and usage, analyzing and discussing related factors, relationships, and patterns of these needs. It has collected and organized preliminary data accurately and in-depth, laying a solid foundation for subsequent related research.

How psychological ownership over nutritional products affects purchase intentions of high-pressure working groups.

This study aims to investigate the influence of psychological ownership of nutritional products on the purchase intention of high-pressure working groups, as well as the underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions of this influence. This study aims to investigate the impact of psychological ownership of nutritional products on the purchase intention of high-pressure working groups, as well as the underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions of this influence. The research contributes through the use of variance analysis, mediation models, and moderation models on data from adult participants over the age of 18, across three experiments. Experiment 1, conducted on the Credamo platform, randomly recruited 285 participants, with 148 males (51.9%) and 137 females (48.1%), and the results indicated a direct impact of psychological ownership on purchase intention. Building upon this, Experiment 2, which also utilized the Credamo platform and recruited 280 participants consisting of 136 males (48.6%) and 144 females (51.4%), further revealed the mediating role of perceived value. Experiment 3, with 265 participants randomly recruited on the Credamo platform, including 131 males (49.4%) and 134 females (50.6%), identified the moderating effect of nutritional awareness. The theoretical contribution of this study lies primarily in its in-depth exploration of the impact of psychological ownership of nutritional products. By integrating the factors of perceived value and nutritional awareness, it provides a systematic explanation for better understanding the purchase intentions of high-pressure working groups. Additionally, this study offers valuable strategies for merchants to enhance the purchase intentions of high-pressure living groups.

浅析人工智能生成物的著作权归属问题

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A prospective analysis of the engineering design discipline evolution based on key influencing trends

Design and manufacturing sectors are vital agents of an economy. However, multiple challenges influence product designs such as the predicted scarcity of energy and primary materials, the ubiquitous integration of electronic components and computing science in systems’ architectures, the pervasive production of data by most systems, the emphasis given to CO2 free energy solutions, recycling, and reuse, the transformation of the consumption model from product ownership to product as a service, as well as the geopolitical conflicts. Major technological advancements leading to transformation in socio-economic practices would be required to address these challenges which can have a profound effect on design and manufacturing activities. This research aims to evaluate the potential impact and modification induced by such transformations on product design process. The research identifies that early design automation can enable coping with unmanageable cognitive load generated by cascading changes. A list of modifications to current design practices is proposed to enable the development of a new generation of design tools. The article provides an initial prospective effort to discuss the potential services and functionality that will be offered by future design tools’.

Rights based approaches to forest landscape restoration; learning from the Indian forest policy experience

Secure rights and tenure are considered essential components for socially just forest landscape restoration (FLR). Through a content analysis of India's forest policies, we identify enabling factors and challenges for rights based FLR. We discuss the practical implications of these enabling factors and barriers for FLR in India using evidence from the literature. We find that policies like the Forest Rights Act (FRA) and the Panchayat Extension of Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act support rights based FLR by providing communities with secure forest management rights and ownership of forest products. However, other policies, such as the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act, can act antagonistically and weaken community rights in FLR. From our analysis, we draw three key lessons for rights based FLR in India and globally. First, there is a need to identify and resolve conflicts among forest policies that undermine rights and affect community participation in FLR. Second, policies must go beyond providing a potential for claiming rights and make claiming rights actionable in practice. Third, there is a need for a greater focus on promoting FLR mechanisms that allow communities to participate in FLR decision-making with their full set of recognised rights, including in the design of FLR activities that align with community preferences and needs.

Recycling Versus Leasing in Closed-Loop Supply Chain: A Comparative Analysis Anchored on Consumer Ownership Perceptions

Manufacturers increasingly recycle end-of-life products to realize residual economic value and mitigate environmental impacts on the economic system. Concurrently, with the burgeoning growth of the product-service system, leasing models offer an alternative method to complete the material loop without direct collection. While prior research has delved into recycling channels, incentive mechanisms, and remanufacturing within closed-loop supply chain management, a comparative analysis between recycling and leasing strategies remains under-explored. This study seeks to bridge this gap by elucidating the manufacturer’s strategic decision-making process, factoring in consumers’ product ownership perceptions. We propose a manufacturer decision model anchored on consumer choices and segment it into three scenarios based on varying ownership perceptions. Our analysis contrasts market demand and profit outcomes across these scenarios. Notably, we discern that a hybrid strategy is optimal when ownership perception is low; however, when such perception is heightened, a dedicated recycling strategy proves more advantageous. Importantly, introducing a leasing option does not entirely overshadow the conventional sales market but is susceptible to being overshadowed itself. From a managerial standpoint, while integrating a leasing program might augment revenue streams, sole reliance on it is inadvisable. Furthermore, reshaping consumption paradigms to emphasize product functionality over ownership can pave the way for more expansive leasing strategies, optimizing revenue generation within a closed-loop framework.

ВІЗУАЛІЗАЦІЯ ПРОЦЕСІВ ОБРОБКИ ДАНИХ ДЛЯ ІНФОРМАЦІЙНОЇ СИСТЕМИ КОМЕРЦІАЛІЗАЦІЇ ОБ’ЄКТІВ ПРАВА ІНТЕЛЕКТУАЛЬНОЇ ВЛАСНОСТІ

The aim of this article is to visualize the data processing processes for the information system of intellectual property rights commercialization. The article analyses the main legislative and regulatory documents governing the process of intellectual property rights commercialization in the information products and services market in Ukraine. It is also determined that the functioning of this information system will be influenced by external market factors. In particular, the main ones include economic development of the countries where the process of intellectual property rights commercialization takes place, legislation and regulatory framework of the country, financial regulation of the process of intellectual property rights commercialization. Based on these results, the author developed the structure of the data flow diagram of the information system for drafting an intellectual property sale and purchase agreement, taking into account external factors of influence. This data flow diagram includes such processes as determining the terms of the intellectual property contract for an intellectual property object, forming the relevant contract and confirming it. The paper also contains the structure of the data flow diagram for the transfer of product ownership and the intellectual property deposit and payment agreement, taking into account external factors of influence. It includes a description of such processes as the formation of a deposit agreement, order fulfilment control, and payment for the execution of the process of buying and selling an intellectual property object. The proposed visualization of data processing processes for the information system for commercialization of intellectual property rights objects includes a database of laws and regulations of Ukraine and can be expanded for use outside Ukraine. The results of the study are applied and can be used to development an appropriate information system of intellectual property rights commercialization, taking into account the influence of external factors of the market of information products and services.

How does participatory research work: protocol for a realist synthesis

IntroductionParticipatory research science deals with partnerships underlying research, governance and ownership of research products. It is concerned with relationships behind research objectives and methods. Participatory research has gained significant traction...