Perception Of External Environment Research Articles

The Emergence of Innovative Entrepreneurship: Beyond the Intention — Investigating the Participants in an Academic SUC

To stem the increasing competitiveness of many newcomer countries, managerial and business literature underlines the necessity to favor entrepreneurship in high tech and innovative sectors. From this perspective, an increasingly important role in the generation of innovative entrepreneurship is carried out by the universities, which are natural incubators of borderline and cutting-edge technologies. With this in mind, the present study explores the entrepreneurial intention among a population of academics participating at a start-up competition (SUC) that view entrepreneurship as an opportunity-driven choice to give value to their researches. Two variables affecting the entrepreneurial intention among these participants are specifically examined: the perception of external environment and the perception of subjective competencies. To test the intention, the paper refers to the widespread Theory of Planned Behaviour, currently recognised as one of the most influential theoretical model. The results of the present research show that the considered variables have a strong effect on intent through entrepreneurial attitudes and personal behaviour control. Consistently with other leading articles, the findings confirm the importance of the external environment and knowledge in favouring or discouraging the entrepreneurial choice even among academics participating at the SUC.

CONGENITAL BLIND AND SIGHTED

Background: Visual impaired people have difficulty perceiving the nonverbalcues and human conversation. While understanding of a conversation greatly relies and dependon nonverbal cues .this deficiency generate many problems. It affect on their perception ofexternal environment thinking and on their interpersonal skill. Objective: of the present studyis to investigate the effects of congenital blind on interpersonal intelligence and adoptability.Research Design: The research design for the present research was Independent Subjectdesign, Sample and Method: The samples consist of 60 schools going adolescent that is 30students from special education institute (visual impaired) and 30 students from main streamranging from age 11-18 year with the middle socioeconomic class. Period: November 2013 tojune2014. Data source setting different schools of Karachi city. It is hypothesized that there isa significance difference in interpersonal intelligence and adoptability between visual impairedand sighted adolescents. Bar-on emotional quotient inventory youth version (EQ: Yv.200) wasused to assess emotional intelligence and for statistical interpretation of data t-test was used.Conclusion: The finding of the research indicates that there is no significance difference ininterpersonal intelligence as well as in adoptability.

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Background: Visual impaired people have difficulty perceiving the nonverbalcues and human conversation. While understanding of a conversation greatly relies and dependon nonverbal cues .this deficiency generate many problems. It affect on their perception ofexternal environment thinking and on their interpersonal skill. Objective: of the present studyis to investigate the effects of congenital blind on interpersonal intelligence and adoptability.Research Design: The research design for the present research was Independent Subjectdesign, Sample and Method: The samples consist of 60 schools going adolescent that is 30students from special education institute (visual impaired) and 30 students from main streamranging from age 11-18 year with the middle socioeconomic class. Period: November 2013 tojune2014. Data source setting different schools of Karachi city. It is hypothesized that there isa significance difference in interpersonal intelligence and adoptability between visual impairedand sighted adolescents. Bar-on emotional quotient inventory youth version (EQ: Yv.200) wasused to assess emotional intelligence and for statistical interpretation of data t-test was used.Conclusion: The finding of the research indicates that there is no significance difference ininterpersonal intelligence as well as in adoptability.

Development of a bionic hexapod robot for walking on unstructured terrain

AbstractThis paper reports the design methodology and control strategy in the development of a novel hexapod robot HITCR-II that is suitable for walking on unstructured terrain. First, the entire sensor system is designed to equip the robot with the perception of external environment and its internal states. The structure parameters are optimized for improving the dexterity of the robot. Second, a foot-force distribution model and a compensation model are built to achieve posture control. The two models are capable of effectively improving the stability of hexapod walking on unstructured terrain. Finally, the Posture Control strategy based on Force Distribution and Compensation (PCFDC) is applied to the HITCR-II hexapod robot. The experimental results show that the robot can effectively restrain the vibration of trunk and keep stable while walking and crossing over the unstructured terrains.

The Influence Prism in SMEs: The Power of CEOs' Perceptions on Technology Policy and Its Organizational Impacts

The research proposes a model, which relates the following variables: (a) the CEO's perceptions of the environment, (b) the strategic business orientation, scanning, and structural characteristics, (c) technology policy, (d) realized innovative efforts of the firm, and (e) measures of firm performance. The empirical data from small manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) that share a common economic and industrial environment show that CEOs' perceptions of external environment—and not objective measures—are key significant issues with respect to technology policy formulation and enactment in SMEs and its subsequent organizational impacts. In particular, perceived environmental hostility and dynamism are shown to have specific and differing moderating roles on the form and strength of the relationships between technology policy and its determinants and between technology policy and realized innovative efforts. Furthermore, a more aggressive technology policy leads to greater realized innovative efforts, which in turn are positively related to export performance and, to a lesser extent, to financial performance.