Technology Ecosystem Research Articles

INDONESIAN FINTECH: BUSINESS ECOSYSTEM AND REGULATION

This article will examine the development of the business ecosystem and regulation of Financial Technology (Fintech) in Indonesia, especially lending through electronic transactions, or peer to peer lending (P2P Lending). Although the Financial Services Authority (OJK) has closed the company's activities, but in a short time other illegal companies have emerged, even in larger numbers. This research uses the doctrinal method with the statutory approach. Secondary data is used to explain of legal and social phenomena related to the research topic.The Fintech industry requires specific provisions governing criminal offenses related to Illegal companies.

Influence of Habits on Mobile Payment Acceptance: An Ecosystem Perspective

With the increase in the use of various mobile devices, mobile payments have become a crucial driver for commerce success. However, the percentage of consumers who use or continue using mobile payments in the US is low. This study adopts information technology (IT) ecosystem view and transfer of learning theory and explores the effects of five types of technology use habits on consumers’ intention to continue using mobile payments. Results indicate that consumers’ online shopping, mobile service use, and cell phone use habits have a positive relationship with their mobile payment use habit, positively affecting their intention to continue using mobile payments. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are presented.

Diversity and Equity in STEM: Second Part

The goal of this invited editorial is to introduce the second set of articles of the special issue on Diversity and Equity in STEM. This special issue integrates papers focused on identifying, sharing and valorizing experiences, projects and best practices focused on promoting diversity and gender equality in STEM sectors, both academic and professional. The papers were submitted and reviewed in an open format, and also, the extended versions of the papers were presented at the special track on Bridging the Diversity Gap in STEM at the Workshop of Engendering Technologies 2019 presented at the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACCION 2019), held in San Sebastian, Spain, and the Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM 2019) Conference, held in Leon, Spain.

Requirements for cybersecurity in agricultural communication networks

Agricultural cybersecurity is a rising concern because farming is becoming ever more reliant on computers and Internet access. During the last few years, the agrotechnology community, public sector, and researchers have been alerted to the problem and a significant amount of research has focused on the issue. However, the majority of the existing work focuses on external threats or specific parts of the farm technology ecosystem. This work examines the cybersecurity capabilities of individual farms and focuses on the farm local area network; the network and connected devices of six dairy farms in Finland are examined in detail. In addition, the farmers were interviewed in order to ascertain their opinions and understanding of agricultural cybersecurity. The results of the reviews were mixed. The physical cabling, for example, was all in good condition and followed appropriate regulations. On the other hand, network topology, malware protection, and system backups were not handled appropriately. Surveillance cameras typically did not work as expected. Often, the farmers did not know the network topology, the connected devices, or the details of individual devices in the network. In summary, the cybersecurity on the farms reviewed in this work was not handled optimally and significant improvements would be needed in order to secure the reviewed systems. However, since the approach of this work is qualitative in nature, care must be taken when generalizing the results. In conclusion, there is a significant need for improvements in agricultural cybersecurity on the level of individual farms. Many of the threats faced by farms are caused by their own activity or the physical environment and thus, emphasis must be put on improving their own situations.

Technological differentiation in the development of the Ural macroregion’s subjects

At the local level, regions are the entities that have to grapple with the problem of Russia’s technological breakthrough directly. The paper aims to uncover the reasons behind the differences in technological development of the subjects of the Ural macroregion. The econom ics of complexity and new Schumpeterian theory of economic growth constitute the methodo logical basis of the research. The author applies economic mathematical methods of analysis, as well as analytical tools of the ecosystem approach to examine the sample of 3,436 manufactur ing companies from the seven subjects of the Ural macroregion in the period of 2007–2019. The researcher specifies separate technologies by disagregating industries using All-Russian Classification of Economic Activities (OKVED-2). Companies are divided into three groups depending on the type of the main implemented technology: system, component or basic. The findings reveal that leading regions feature high degree of technological complexity determined on the basis of technological diversity and localisation of the system integrator companies. Ad ditionally, leaders significantly outperform other regions in total factor productivity of compa nies employing different groups of technologies. The research demonstrates that the presence of a system technology in a region stimulates the development of a family of related compo nent technologies, which may be located not only in the region of operation, but in also in the neighboring less technologically developed regions. This gives rise to the assumption that in the macroregion a separate technological ecosystem may form. The empirical data show that the domination of separate technologies in a region may slow down the technological development. The results of the research can be helpful while devising the plans for technological and spatial development of territories.

Objeto virtual de aprendizaje para el diseño de prototipos de robótica: estrategia didáctica ante el COVID-19

Dado el nuevo escenario al que se han tenido que enfrentar los protagonistas de la educación por cuenta de la pandemia ocasionada por el COVID-19 ha sido necesario transformar las estrategias pedagógicas y didácticas para mitigar su impacto y dar paso al abordaje de temáticas o contenidos desde la distancia por medio de un ecosistema tecnológico (Ministerio de Educación Nacional, 2020). En tal sentido, el presente estudio analiza la experiencia de implementar y evaluar un Objeto Virtual de Aprendizaje (OVA) cuyo contenido conlleva a la realización de un producto final en el campo de la robótica escolar. La investigación se realizó bajo un enfoque cuantitativo con diseño cuasi experimental, y para el proceso de recolección de datos se utilizaron dos cuestionarios. El OVA se desarrolló bajo el método de análisis, diseño, desarrollo, implementación y evaluación (ADDIE) tomado de Maribe (2009) y al amparo del modelo pedagógico de Gagné (1968). Los resultados obtenidos de la aplicación de un pretest, un postest y una encuesta de satisfacción evidencian que la implementación del OVA en medio del distanciamiento social y cuarentena permitió afianzar los conocimientos fundamentales de las áreas de la educación media y la construcción del prototipo solicitado. De igual forma, generó interés, creatividad y el uso adecuado de las herramientas tecnológicas dentro del proceso enseñanza aprendizaje de los estudiantes privilegiando el aprendizaje basado en retos, la toma de decisiones y la resolución de problemas.

Aula Inversa desde la Virtualidad del Centro Metalmecánico para la Gestión de Tecnología y Buenas Prácticas Formativas

Ante el confinamiento provocado por la Pandemia Covid-19, se forzó al cambio de lugar a fin de realizar actividades, al replantearse los deberes en clase y la lección en casa, apoyada por la tecnología, a través de ambientes virtuales de aprendizaje. El objetivo de este proyecto consistió en aplicar el Aula Inversa desde la virtualidad del Centro Metalmecánico en la Gestión de Tecnología con Buenas Prácticas formativas. La metodología corresponde a una investigación cualitativa con enfoque empírico analítico, carácter descriptivo de corte transversal, desarrollada en 4 fases Análisis, Diseño, Ejecución y Evaluación. De esta manera brindó una visión informal, que le permitió, tanto al instructor, como a sus aprendices, el acercarse más a la realidad, utilidad y aplicabilidad de los Ecosistemas Tecnológicas trabajados desde el Semillero de Investigación E-Innova CMM del Centro Metalmecánico, que han sido transferidos a la Universidad de Caldas, Centro de Comercio y Servicios SENA Regional Caldas, Universidad de la Guajira. El resultado obtenido fue, generar un modelo escalable, configurable con la tecnología, estrategias de uso, trabajo colaborativo, a partir de los Semilleros de Investigación E-Innova, Semilla GRICS, Grupos de Investigación GICEMET, GRICS, ReNuevaTe Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, BIEMARC con la Facultad de Ingenierías Universidad de Caldas y el semillero de investigación TECSIS. Se logró incrementar la actividad, aprendizaje significativo, desarrollo de proyectos tecnológicos por parte de los estudiantes e incentivar el uso de recursos educativos digitales por parte de los docentes.

IoT: A New Open Access Journal for Internet of Things

During the last decade, the Information Technology ecosystem has been significantly revolutionized by the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its pervasive and quick evolution [...]

Rational programming of history-dependent logic in cellular populations

Genetic programs operating in a history-dependent fashion are ubiquitous in nature and govern sophisticated processes such as development and differentiation. The ability to systematically and predictably encode such programs would advance the engineering of synthetic organisms and ecosystems with rich signal processing abilities. Here we implement robust, scalable history-dependent programs by distributing the computational labor across a cellular population. Our design is based on standardized recombinase-driven DNA scaffolds expressing different genes according to the order of occurrence of inputs. These multicellular computing systems are highly modular, do not require cell-cell communication channels, and any program can be built by differential composition of strains containing well-characterized logic scaffolds. We developed automated workflows that researchers can use to streamline program design and optimization. We anticipate that the history-dependent programs presented here will support many applications using cellular populations for material engineering, biomanufacturing and healthcare.

Media Coding Industry Forum Progress Report

The Media Coding Industry Forum (MC-IF) was formed in September 2018 after several months of preparatory activities. With a fundamental goal of complementing Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)’s technical work, the MC-IF has quickly become the focal point for discussions around deployment and licensing of the upcoming next-generation video coding standard, versatile video coding (VVC). The MC-IF gathers industry leaders from the entire media technology ecosystem and currently includes more than 30 member organizations.

Ecosistema global del emprendedor desde una perspectiva financiera y tecnológica

Esta investigación tiene como objetivo realizar una comparativa del ecosistema emprendedor, financiero y tecnológico entre países desarrollados y emergentes. El estudio considera una muestra de 43 países y los años 2006 y 2018. Para la medición del ecosistema usamos el Índice de Emprendedor Global. Para realizar el análisis se selecciona el método no paramétrico de Vecindades Cercanas. Los hallazgos muestran que los ecosistemas globales permanecen sin cambios en el tiempo. En el ecosistema financiero y tecnológico durante el periodo de estudio, países líderes y niveles inferiores de emprendimiento se mantienen con pocos cambios. Debido a lo estático de los ecosistemas, las políticas públicas y privadas, como cambios cultures, inversión en infraestructura financiera y tecnología deben ser canalizadas a los emprendedores independientemente del país en donde surja el emprendimiento. Las limitaciones que presentaron es poca muestra de países en África en donde es necesario que surjan los emprendimientos para la mejora del bienestar en su población. La metodología de Vecindades Cercanas nos ayuda a analizar diferencias entre países emergentes y desarrollados, lo que nos permite arrojar conclusiones en política económica.

Evaluation for Evolution: Using the ERMI Standards to Validate an Airtable ERMS

ABSTRACT Electronic resource management systems (ERMS) have yet to resolve the difficulty of electronic resource management to the satisfaction of librarians, in spite of widespread approval of the standards proposed in the 2004 Electronic Resource Management Initiative Report. This article proposes using the report’s functional requirements as criteria to evaluate an ERMS systematically. Sharing local critiques of current and potential ERMS implementations enriches the library technology ecosystem with a shared understanding of common problems and potential solutions. This article illustrates this proposal using the author’s ERMS, “RELIC,” which is built on the Airtable platform.

Guest Editorial Diversity and Equity in STEM

The aim of this invited editorial is to introduce the first set of articles of the special issue on Diversity and Equity in STEM. The special issue integrates articles on the experiences and good practices focused on the promotion of reducing the gender gap and diversity, submitted and reviewed an open format and also the extended versions of the articles, presented at the special track on Bridging the Diversity Gap in STEM in the Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality Conference (TEEM 2019), held in Leon, Spain, in October 2019, at the Workshop of Engendering Technologies 2019, and at the International Conference on Human–Computer Interaction (INTERACCION 2019), held in San Sebastian, Spain, in June 2019.

The mechanism of innovation spill-over across sub-layers in the ICT industry

ABSTRACT While there has been a study regarding the mechanism of innovation spillover within an information and communication technology (ICT) ecosystem, to the best of our knowledge, there has been no research on the mechanism of innovation spillover between sublayers. To fill this gap, this study aimed to disentangle the empirical question of how innovation spills over between sublayers. We classified the ICT industry into three layers, Content, Goods, and Service, and collected financial data from KISVALUE over the last 18 years (2000–2017). Stochastic frontier and meta-frontier analysis were used to estimate the annual production function of each layer and the meta-production functions that encompass each sublayer’s frontiers. Based on the efficiency calculations, we introduced two types of instrumental variables: (1) each industry’s single radical innovation and (2) the effect of an industry’s incremental innovation, then regressed the firms’ efficiency on other industries’ radical and incremental innovation. The results showed that innovation from one sublayer affects the other sublayers’ productivity gains, thus triggering other types of innovation and causing reciprocal productivity gains in the other sublayers of the ICT ecosystem. This study sheds light on the mechanism of innovation spillover across sublayers in the ICT ecosystem, and the implications of the findings are discussed.

A structural analysis approach to identify technology innovation and evolution path: a case of m-payment technology ecosystem

Purpose The evolution of technology has become the mainstream of the current technological innovation era. Technological change is organized in its unique pattern and a new approach that takes place in a systematic and selective manner. Such change is generally molded with the amalgamation of various factors, namely, economic, social or scientific and technological. This paper aims to focus on identifying technological trajectories in a technological ecosystem with the case of m-payment technology. Design/methodology/approach This study constructs a patent citation network for mobile payment service technology through patent citation data and identifies the main evolution process using the main path analysis of the network. The scope of this study focuses on key innovation using social network analysis and patent citation network, validated using the case of a mobile payment system and analyzing its technological trajectory. Findings Analyzing technology evolution provides a greater insight of the overall technology landscape to the researcher and practitioner. Analyzing the m-payment technology landscape gives three main categories of m-payment systems: the mobile financial transaction system), the payee mobile device payment selection system and e-wallet services. Originality/value The novelty of this research lies in the process of identifying technological evolution using social network and patent citation network analysis. The case of m-payment technology ecosystem is studied quantitatively which is not explored by previous researchers. This research provides a way to develop the main path technology of innovative products or services to identify technology evolution using the case of m-payment landscape.

The perspective of capability providers in creating a sustainable I4.0 environment

PurposeWith the increasing pressures towards global sustainability and the transition to Industry 4.0 (I4.0), the collaboration between firms and other key stakeholders is essential. Value is no longer created by firms acting autonomously, but rather by firms acting together with external parties. Therefore, the aim of this study is to explore the potential contribution of capability providers to a Sustainable I4.0 Environment as an additional perspective regarding the management decisions of a smart and sustainable business model (SSBM) transformation of big corporations.Design/methodology/approachAn in-depth qualitative case study of Futuryng INC., which is a company based in Silicon Valley, New York and Italy, is presented and analysed through interviews, secondary sources and using a triangulation approach. The company is a Connected Technologies Ecosystem, which acts as a provider of technology building blocks (capability) able to design and release end-to-end Information Technologies–Internet of Things–Operational Technologies (IT-IoT-OT) Solutions.FindingsFrom the case study, the authors determine that the success of big corporations' SSBM transformation requires a Sustainable I4.0 Environment approach where capability providers play a relevant role and act as enablers. Then, the authors develop a framework by adopting an actor perspective, called the Sustainable I4.0 Environment, highlighting the contribution of the capability provider in the sustainable I4.0 business model transformation of a big corporation.Practical implicationsThe authors’ analysis clarifies that the successful execution of a sustainable I4.0 business model transformation requires integrated thinking for management decisions and a co-creation approach with capability providers, along with an open innovation process.Originality/valueIn the analysis of I4.0 and sustainability issues, previous studies only focus on implementing firms and view the environment merely as a background in which act forces of sustainability and I4.0. A comprehensive overview of the Sustainable I4.0 Environment, which considers actors and their contribution, is lacking. By integrating the literature review with the case study, the authors’ research proposes a comprehensive framework to guide the decision process of transformation from a traditional business model (TBM) to an SSBM and considers one of the key actors involved, the capability providers.

Potential of digital technologies in academic entrepreneurship – a study

PurposeDigital technologies have become indispensable in businesses and are gaining attention in academic institutions context too. Digital technological ecosystems provide a platform to communicate and share their products and services to existing and potential customers. Entrepreneurial startups and companies face internal and external challenges utilizing social media technologies to commercialize their business ideas. The purpose of this paper is to identify opportunities and challenges faced by academic entrepreneurs' startups.Design/methodology/approachThis research has adopted a qualitative approach comprising of semi-structured in-depth interviews with academic entrepreneurs’ startups to find the main challenge they face using social media platforms. The purpose was associated with an exploratory type of study and also included a prominent unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) and technological opportunism (TO) model. The research respondents were 23 academic entrepreneurs startups who were chosen applying purposive sampling. Respondents were given a set of a questionnaire consisting of close-ended questions that are five-point Likert scale. The questionnaire included various parameters to measure the social media challenges the academic entrepreneurs’ startups undergo in the initial phase of their businesses.FindingsThe study identified that business-to-customer relations, brand, reputation, competition and cultural and language influence digital technologies entrepreneurship. While, the findings discovered the extended research model has a positive influence on academic entrepreneurs' intentions to use digital technologies media platforms. The outcome of this paper has thrown more light on which issues are there in digital technologies entrepreneurship, the determinants and actual usage advantages from UTAUT model and TO model that could be properly employed to solve issues of digital technologies media platforms and the potential concerning the adoption and use of digital technologies.Originality/valueThe study of academic entrepreneurs' startups can be considered original in nature. There is dearth of standard literature in the upcoming area of academic entrepreneurship. Governments are taking initiatives to promote academic entrepreneurs' startups, and the findings will be able to give them a right direction.

Final Word: The Health Technology Community Steps Up to Combat COVID-19.

There are times in life when the words “thank you” are not enough. I am grateful to our AAMI community members' caring and noble actions making such a profound difference during the COVID-19 pandemic. Every part of the health technology ecosystem has answered the call. While the examples are numerous and significant, I've listed just a handful below.Medical device manufacturers have leaned into higher rates of production and distribution, and some have even shared their engineering drawings for ventilators publicly in an altruistic action to bootstrap additional production. Subject-matter experts in ventilators and respirators from clinical organizations, manufacturers, and the Food and Drug Administration have developed reports and guidance documents in a matter of days—not years or months—which AAMI has published to further diffuse this critical information.Healthcare technology management and sterilization professionals across the entire health spectrum have shared knowledge and resources for ensuring critical equipment is functional, safe, and available, many participating on AAMI Connect, virtual town hall events, and social media. Companies new to the AAMI community have partnered with manufacturers and venture capitalists to produce much-needed personal protective equipment and identify locations of greatest need for their distribution at no cost to the end-user.I would be remiss to not publicly thank AAMI's extraordinary volunteers and staff members and include them among the heroes of this community. They have been pushed well beyond their comfort zones and normal operational tempo to assist those in need. There is no doubt this community is very special. When presented with critical, life-threatening needs, the AAMI community has responded across individual and organizational boundaries to improve, over everything else, patient safety and treatment.It is admittedly inadequate—but thank you so much for all you do.

Disruptive innovation and technology ecosystem: The evolution of the intercohesive public–private collaboration network in Chinese telecommunication industry

Recent events involving Chinese technology firm Huawei and its role in the global 5th Generation (5G) telecommunication standard, as well as the role of the Chinese government in shaping the technology competition, have pushed the issue of public–private collaboration to the headline. To offer improved understanding about this issue of profound implication for research and practice, we trace the trajectory of a previous public–private collaboration and investigates the disruption and restructure of a technology ecosystem. The standardization of China’s TD-SCDMA technology reveals that (1) a network has a more centralized structure at its inception; (2) intercohesion increases and structural folds facilitate knowledge generation and disruptive innovation in the orchestration phase; (3) in the embedded phase, the public institutions’ status generally remained stable. Essentially, the government empowers various institutions to form a strategizing group, and leads this group across the disruption and reconfiguration of the industrial network.

Distributed leadership for personalized learning

Personalized learning refers to a collection of practices designed to place student interests and needs at the heart of schooling. Schools that implement personalized learning need leaders that support educators and students in redesigning the core practices of teaching and learning in K-12 schools. To answer the question of how leaders support this redesign, we use distributed leadership theory to focus on the macrotasks and microtasks that leaders enact to create the conditions for personalized learning practices. Drawing on a five-year, qualitative study of 11 personalized learning programs in the Midwest, we identify three macrotasks supporting personalized learning: reorganizing learning environments to support student voice and choice, assembling idiosyncratic technology ecosystems to distribute teaching and learning tasks, and redesigning instructional time to prioritize student’s interests, agency, and learning relationships. After we describe a number of microtasks associated with each macrotask, we discuss how a consideration of these kinds of leadership tasks can open the contemporary discussion of personalized learning from a narrow focus on learning technologies to an expansive vision of student-centered school reform.