Innovative Search Research Articles

ЦЕНА КРОВИ КАЗАКОВ: В ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВЕ ЮФУ В РОСТОВЕ-НА-ДОНУ А.Ю. ПЕРЕТЯТЬКО ОПУБЛИКОВАЛ ОРИГИНАЛЬНЫЙ СБОРНИК ДОКУМЕНТОВ ПО ИСТОРИИ ДОНСКОГО КАЗАЧЕСТВА

The article is devoted to the latest original documentary research of the historian Artyom Yuryevich Peretyatko, presented in a large three-volume edition at the Southern Federal University in Rostov-on-Don. The publication of new archival documents on the history of the Don Cossacks is of great interest to specialists - historians of the Cossacks. The newly discovered sources introduced into the scientific circulation make it possible to re-evaluate the history of the Cossacks in the period of the "Great Reforms" of Alexander II and "Counter-Reforms" of Alexander III. Previously, this period in the history of the Cossacks was not given sufficient attention. Three-volume A.Yu. Peretyatko filled the existing gap in the published sources on the history of the Cossacks in the second half of the 19th century. The innovative format of the publication of sources integrated with the lengthy reasoning of the author of the publication, both of a historical and source study nature, is of undoubted historiographical and bibliographic interest. However, such an original approach of the author to the academic publication of documents can cause justified criticism, both by conservative historians and source researchers and historiographers. But, despite the potential criticism of specialists, one cannot but welcome the innovative search of A.Yu. Peretyatko. It is a topical form of presenting such conservative academic work as the publication of a commented collection of archival documents. In the article, the author included a detailed own historiographic review and a short bibliography of publications on the research topic by Peretyatko.

From the Italian Mare Nostrum Operation to the Frontex Triton Operation ( November 2014-February 2018). Italy and Search and Rescue Operations. (SAR operations)

In October 2013, the Italian Coast Guard began an innovative Search and Rescue mission, known as the Mare Nostrum operation, intending to rescue migrants in distress at sea and bring to justice human traffickers and migrant smugglers. In November 2014, after only a year of activity in which all the costs were financed by Italy, Mare Nostrum was officially ended and replaced by the Frontex-led Operation Triton. This paper examines the EU’s decision to implement the European Triton operation, the main objectives of this new European mission, and for a better understanding, points out the differences between these two naval operations led by Italy in the Mediterranean Sea. Launched in the Central Mediterranean, the main focus of the Triton operation was the border management control and to a lesser extent the humanitarian scope. Being a response to continuous Italy’s calls for aid and the expanded Mediterranean migration crisis, Triton functioned in the same line as two other similar European operations: in Spain, the Hera operation, or in Greece, the Poseidon operation (since 2006). Each operation had a member state, as the sole host state which commanded the entire operation. In February 2018, the Warsaw-based Frontex launched a new operation in the Central Mediterranean, the Themis Operation, to assist Italy in the Schengen border control activity, replacing the Triton operation and removing the much-criticized obligation to bring rescued migrants only to Italy.

Алгоритм взаимодействия уполномоченных органов Республики Казахстан рк по обеспечению пограничной безопасности

This article discusses the problems of interaction between the authorized bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan to ensure border security. The characteristic features of the national level of interaction of the Border Guard Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan with authorized bodies in the context of their competence, identified in the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan On the State Border of the Republic of Kazakhstan, are analyzed. The need for the joint use of modern innovative search tools in the process of borderline design of a theoretical model, as a set of goals and objectives of ensuring border security and its forecast, has been identified and justified. Based on the study, the author proposes to create a coordination council at the Border Commission of representatives of authorized bodies and scientists from their industry, who would study the problems and based on them would prepare draft targeted programs and plans, models aimed at improving the protection and arrangement of our borders of the country, as well as on their initiative, the development of draft regulatory legal acts governing the interaction of authorized bodies for border security would be carried out.

Prospective studies and design management: search for innovation guided by meaning

This paper presents an exploratory and descriptive study on the use of the prospective research applied to the design management to generate innovation guided by the meaning. Innovation has been used as a key strategy for growth and maintenance of companies in the competitive market. However, in most cases, the development of innovation is either usually based on technological change, or on traditional market research. The first needs strong investment and time and the second relies only on the needs articulated by today's consumers, what limits the innovative results. In this context, as alternative approach, prospective research is considered a strong strategy, as it anticipates future consumer’s needs. Nevertheless, aiming at the designer’s work, there is a lack of information on how to manage it to foster meaning innovation by searching emerging opportunities using prospecting surveys. Therefore, this work aimed at the proposal of requirements to improve management of design in companies, by the use of prospective research to foster innovation guided by meaning. First, the research was conduct by a bibliographical review, with systematic and unsystematic phases followed by their interpretation and analysis that resulted in a preset of guidelines. From them, a Delphi method was conducted with manager’s and designers’ experts, to reinforce our review them. Confronting the previous results, the work proposes a list of requirements for the strategic, tactic and operational levels of design management. They intend to improve the use of prospective research within design management to generate innovation guided by meaning.

ФУНКЦІЇ ВЧИТЕЛЯ НА ОСНОВНИХ ЕТАПАХ ІННОВАЦІЙНОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ УЧНІВ З ФІЗИКИ

The article deals with the problem of preparing a future physics teacher to organize innovative search for students in the process of teaching them as an important component of teacher's pedagogical activity. The authors have developed a technology for organizing quasi-professional activity of future teachers of physics, which can be implemented in the process of professional training of teachers in higher education institutions. The quasi-professional activity of future physics teachers is considered to be a type of their educational activity, has educational (is part of the professional training of the student) and professional (occurs in conditions close to real professional activities) aspects and allows for the implementation of pedagogical interaction “teacher ↔ student”, “student ↔ student”, “student ↔ pupil” (by possible participation of representatives of enterprises and scientific institutions, teachers), during which they can manifest themselves as organizers of innovative activity of students. In the article, the authors highlighted the characteristic stages of the innovative activity of students and found out the main functions of the teacher, which are subordinate to educational goals and depend on the content of a particular stage of student innovation. The main functions of the teacher are: motivational and organizational – in the stages of: choosing a topical topic for future development; formulation of the technical task; organizational, cognitive, research – in the stages of: finding an idea to solve a problem; developing the design of the device (method) that is the solution to the task; theoretical study of the proposed technical solution; development and production of the current model; experimental study of the current model; studying the patentability of developing and obtaining security documents (in particular, utility model patent or invention); motivational, organizational, communication – at the stages: approbation of the experimental sample in real conditions and implementation of the developed technical solution in a certain field; writing of scientific work on the results of the conducted researches; expert evaluation of development; publication of results. Key words: future physics teacher, students’ innovative activity, technique of organizing quasi-professional activity of future physics teachers, stages of innovative activity, functions of a teacher.

Design Process

Design é um processo criativo e inovador que recorre ao conhecimento técnico da engenharia para obter o suporte necessário para o desenvolvimento de um universo de produtos, serviços e benefícios voltados à sociedade caracterizada pelo consumo. Como forma de potencializar a inovação uma maior aproximação entre o Design e a engenharia demonstra ser uma das possíveis estratégias adequadas. Na busca pela otimização do processo e do produto, inovação, benchmarking e melhores resultados para os usuários e suas necessidades deve-se recorrer a uma metodologia de projeto. Este tipo de metodologia é denominado “Design Process”. O processo do projeto técnico e criativo possui raízes oriundas da engenharia e inerentes ao Design. Consiste em adaptar métodos de concepção e desenvolvimento usuais para ambas as áreas, onde igualmente se trabalha o projeto em etapas, envolvendo o conceito de ergonomia organizacional, da fase de criação até o produto final. Este artigo propõe uma breve análise sobre as metodologias do “Design Process”, buscando elucidar os pontos tangentes nos processos do Design e da Engenharia, demonstrando que a aproximação entre estas áreas pode melhorar o desempenho do projeto de produtos e serviços. Ao identificar esta orientação comum, o estudo demostrou que a parceria otimiza resultados, com potencial para a melhoria na geração da inovação.

Natural textile fibers in contemporary Brazilian jewelry

The present study discusses the use of textiles in the contemporary production of jewelry in Brazil, highlighting the application of natural fibers. Manual weaving of natural fibers is closely linked to traditional handicraft just as metallic interlacing is used in jewelry production since antiquity. Bibliographical and scientific literature review were carried out as well as consulting collections of Brazilian creators, artists and designers, currently working with jewelry and employing natural fibers. Reflecting on the use of natural fibers in the Brazilian contemporary jewelry, this study has as its reference, in order to make a broad discussion, the work of artists and designers from different regions of the country, whose expression is different regarding natural material available and applied on the works and the productive techniques originated in regional traditions. Considering the search for innovation in the use of materials, it can be observed an intense renewal in Brazilian jewelry, which is impregnated by both unusual natural elements and traditional values of the culture of the country.

Development of Contemporary Russian Theater’s Communication Policy under New Institutional Conditions

Goal: Developing a model of contemporary theater’s communication policy through identification of its capabilities and application polyphony under conditions of institutional changes for successful positioning in the competitive market of culture and arts. Research problem: New institutional conditions demand that theatrical organizations promote their projects more efficiently, yet the applied communication tools prevent theaters from implementing their management tasks in full. Research relevance. The management activity of social and cultural organizations is currently transforming into entrepreneurial activity, which requires organizations to use innovative management and search for new, unconventional managerial approaches to their communications with the external environment. Markets of cultural services are becoming business markets to an ever greater degree as organizations are turning into business entities; so developing a model of theatrical organization’s communication policy under market conditions makes it possible to improve its attractiveness, reputation and attendance. Research method. To solve the set task, authors proposed applying a comprehensive approach that includes traditional and special research methods. We classify the following as traditional methods: systemic, comparative and logical analysis; written and verbal surveys of theatrical patrons and partners to identify the most efficient communications. Special methods include application of content analysis of online media, theaters’ websites and social media accounts, SWOT analysis to identify patrons’ preferences, and modeling. Research result is going to be the implementation of a comprehensive communication system in theater management, improving social, marketing and economic efficiency of theaters’ activity.

Diseño de puentes: el enfoque español por Javier Manterola y su similitud en Alemania

Para Javier Manterola la ingeniería es racionalidad y emoción, función y forma, ciencia y arte. Sus puentes combinan las virtudes clásicas de eficiencia y verdad estructural, en una búsqueda permanente de la innovación y el progreso. Su trabajo sigue una tradición, que antes de él fue definida por la obra ahora clásica de Carlos Fernández Casado y Eduardo Torroja. Él ha forjado y desarrollado esta tradición española durante décadas y que ha sido ahora asumida por la próxima generación. Del mismo modo, en Alemania, el clásico Fritz Leonhardt fue seguido por Jörg Schlaich, que tiene la misma edad que Javier Manterola, y que es ahora seguido por la generación actual de ingenieros. Los dos ingenieros se conocen y respetan entre sí y también existe una similitud en su enfoque del diseño de los puentes. Para ilustrar esto y rendir homenaje a Manterola, algunos proyectos o de schlaich bergermann und partners se presentan aquí.

Anatoliy Vasylyovych Kalabukhin: the phenomenon of a creative personality

Anatoliy Vasylyovych Kalabukhin: the phenomenon of a creative personality

Innovation types and the search for new ideas at the fuzzy front end: Where to look and how often?

This study investigates the search for new ideas at the front end of innovation (FEI), exploring how idea search strategies directed beyond and within firm boundaries relate to organizational, managerial, process and marketing innovations (which are overlooked in the product-focused FEI literature), and to innovation performance. Drawing on a cross-industry Australian survey, the study investigates two strategies that direct firms’ external idea search: an industry value-chain strategy and a knowledge-economy strategy. Results show that the intensity of idea search strategy across industry value-chains has an effect on the frequency of product and marketing innovations, while the intensity of knowledge-economy idea search strategy has an effect on innovation performance. An interaction effect is observed between external idea search strategies and innovation performance, and internal idea search strategy intensity shows a performance effect. The research importantly extends the analysis of FEI and innovation search to include organizational, managerial, process and marketing innovations.

Adaptation of the boundary system in growing firms: an agent-based computational study on the role of complexity and search strategy

The boundary system of a firm is intended to set constraints to the behaviour of organisational participants and, by this, to affect decision-making in the direction of the firm’s overall objective. In growing firms, the boundary system is subject to a particular tension: balancing the search for new opportunities and innovation with behavioural constraints to deal with increasing size and intra-organisational complexity. Against this background, the paper studies the adaptation of the boundary system in growing firms. For this, an agent-based simulation based on the framework of NK fitness landscapes is employed which is a rather new approach in the domain of management control systems. The study controls for different levels of task complexity and for different styles in firms’ search for new opportunities in terms of exploitative, explorative or ambidextrous search strategies. The results suggest that the level of task complexity subtly interferes with the search strategy employed in respect of the emerging boundaries. In particular, results support the conjecture that growing task complexity leads to more coordination via hierarchy. However, the search strategy employed shapes the predominance of boundaries compared to less constraining modes of coordination granting higher levels of autonomy to subordinates.

Looking for a Needle in a Haystack: How to Search for Bottom‐Up Social Innovations that Solve Complex Humanitarian Problems

The worldwide increase in societal challenges is putting pressure on humanitarian organizations to develop sophisticated approaches to leverage social innovations in the humanitarian sector. Since humanitarian problems are complex problems, with the relevant knowledge being hidden, organizational search theory advocates the application of bottom‐up and theory‐guided search processes to identify the social innovations that solve these. Unfortunately, there has been no theoretical attention to understanding which approaches apply in this context. Further, established theory‐guided bottom‐up search processes, such as the lead user method, are unsuitable to the humanitarian sector, and we lack practice examples of adequate search processes. To start addressing this gap in theory and practice, procedural action research was done with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to develop a theory‐guided bottom‐up innovation search process for the real‐life humanitarian problem of recurring floods in Indonesia. It revealed that an innovation search process for this context must differ significantly concerning its objectives and the steps to be taken from the lead user method, which was used as a starting point. Further, a comparison of the technical quality and the social impacts of the identified social innovations with social innovations identified through a non‐theory‐guided bottom‐up search process (i.e., an innovation contest) suggests the superiority of this theory‐guided search process. With this conclusion and the insights derived throughout the development of the search process, this study makes important contributions to theory development in the social and open innovation literatures and delivers important recommendations for social innovation practice in the humanitarian sector.

A problem-solving process for developing capabilities: the case of an established firm

Purpose Current research has theorized that developing dynamic capability can be viewed as a problem-finding and problem-solving process in terms of a firm’s resource reconfiguration. However, there continues to be a scarcity of empirical research on how firms and managers solve innovation problems to develop capabilities. Building on the theoretical lens of problem-solving perspective (PSP) and dynamic capability literature, the purpose of this paper is to address this gap by examining how a large automobile company developed different types of capabilities (combining capability, replacing capability and evolving capability) and their underlying problem-solving processes. Design/methodology/approach An inductive multi-case design was used to investigate the problem-solving process in different types of capability development in the context of NPD. This methodology has a number of benefits, including accommodation of the rich data used to compare the inferences among cases, thus enabling researchers to extend the emergent theory. Findings The findings of a multi-case study show that managers tend to direct their attentions to searching for solutions among external resources when the problem is framed as a combination of existing capabilities. Conversely, managers direct their attention to facilitating organizational learning when the problem is framed as an extension of an existing capability. However, managers need to direct more attention to gaining legitimacy when the problem is framed as a replacement of existing capabilities. The findings thus respond to increasing calls for more investigations into the microfoundations underlying firms’ capabilities, by revealing different instances of PSP, and their connections with different actions that take to capability development. Originality/value By comparatively examining the unique problem-solving process underlying an established firm’s innovative challenges in developing capabilities, the findings identify different instances of PSP, and their connections with different actions that take to capability development. Thus, the findings respond to increasing calls for more investigation into the microfoundations of dynamic capabilities for organizational outcomes. The findings also add to the new product development literature by examining how a product innovation can be framed differently depending on the attributes of an innovation problem. As PSP is particularly useful in offering guidance to firms’ innovative search, it is important for managers to pay attention to the attribute of each product and its domain of solution in considering the effectiveness of value creation.

Map-Assisted Generation of Procedure and Intervention Encoding (Magpie): An Innovative Approach for ICD-10-PCS Coding.

ICD-10-PCS coding is challenging because of the large number of codes, non-intuitive terms and paucity of the ICD-10-PCS index. We previously repurposed the richer ICD-9-CM procedure index for ICD-10-PCS coding. We have developed the MAGPIE tool based on the repurposed ICD-9-CM index with other lexical and mapping resources. MAGPIE helps the user to identify SNOMED CT and ICD-10-PCS codes for medical procedures. MAGPIE uses three innovative search approaches: cascading search (SNOMED CT to ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-PCS), hybrid lexical and map-assisted matching, and semantic filtering of ICD-10-PCS codes. Our evaluation showed that MAGPIE found the correct SNOMED CT code and ICD-10-PCS table in 70% and 85% of cases respectively, without any user intervention. MAGPIE is available online from the NLM website: magpie.nlm.nih.gov.

Innovation Search Scope, Technological Complexity, and Environmental Turbulence: A N-K Simulation

This paper discusses the effects of different innovation search scopes on the performance of the N-K fitness landscape model with a focus on its contextual factors of technology complexity and environmental turbulence. Results show that the medium-level search scope has a significantly better outcome than the low-level search scope, especially when the technological complexity is high, while the high-level search scope would not provide a statistically significant advantage. After introducing the turbulent range and rapidity into the N-K model, we extend the model into a dynamic one to simulate better the real turbulent business world. The results of the simulation in dynamic landscapes show that the higher degree of environmental turbulence causes a higher search scope to become more valuable.

Exploring Uncharted Territory: Knowledge Search Processes in the Origination of Outlier Innovation

Most innovation builds closely on existing knowledge and technology, delivering incremental advances on existing ideas, products, and processes. Sometimes, however, inventors make discoveries that seem very distant from what is known and well understood. How do individuals and firms explore such uncharted technological terrain? This paper extends research on knowledge networks and innovation to propose three main processes of knowledge creation that are more likely to result in discoveries that are distant from existing inventions: long search paths, scientific reasoning, and distant recombination. We explore these processes with a combination of a large and unique data set on outlier patents filed at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and interviews with inventors of outlier patents. Our exploratory analysis suggests that there are significant differences in the inventor teams, assignees, and search processes that result in outlier patents. These results have important implications for managers who wish to encourage a more exploratory search for breakthrough innovation.

A study of two evolutionary/tabu search approaches for the generalized max-mean dispersion problem

Evolutionary computing is a general and powerful framework for solving difficult optimization problems, including those arising in expert and intelligent systems. In this work, we investigate for the first time two hybrid evolutionary algorithms incorporating tabu search for solving the generalized max-mean dispersion problem (GMaxMeanDP) which has a variety of practical applications such as web page ranking, community mining, and trust networks. The proposed algorithms integrate innovative search strategies that help the search to explore the search space effectively. We report extensive computational results of the proposed algorithms on six types of 160 benchmark instances, demonstrating their effectiveness and usefulness. In addition to the GMaxMeanDP, the proposed algorithms can help to better solve other problems that can be formulated as the GMaxMeanDP.

Performance Feedback and Innovative Search: An Empirical Review

Organizational performance feedback theory is a frequently used framework for understanding and explaining organizations’ innovative search behavior. The literature has proposed and found evidence ...

Exploring Uncharted Territory: Knowledge Search Processes in the Origination of Outlier Innovation

Most innovation builds closely on existing knowledge and technology, delivering incremental advances on existing ideas, products, and processes. Sometimes, however, inventors make discoveries that seem very distant from what is known and well understood. How do individuals and firms explore such uncharted technological terrain? This paper extends research on knowledge networks and innovation to propose three main processes of knowledge creation that are more likely to result in discoveries that are distant from existing inventions: long search paths, scientific reasoning, and distant recombination. We explore these processes with a combination of a large and unique dataset on outlier patents filed at the US Patent and Trademark Office and interviews with inventors of outlier patents. Our exploratory analysis suggests that there are significant differences in the inventor teams, assignees, and search processes that result in outlier patents. These results have important implications for managers that wish to encourage more exploratory search for breakthrough innovation.