Trends In Technological Innovation Research Articles

Analysis of Blockchain Technology in Patient Data Management System : Security, Privacy, and Efficiency in the Digital Healthcare Context

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital healthcare, ensuring secure, confidential, and efficient patient data management has become paramount. Blockchain technology has emerged as a promising solution to address these challenges. This study aims to analyze the implementation of blockchain technology within patient data management systems, with a specific focus on security, privacy, and efficiency in the context of digital healthcare. Within this framework, a notable gap arises between technological innovation trends and their practical application within the healthcare sector. This research expands our understanding of how blockchain can be effectively harnessed to tackle security and patient data privacy challenges within the increasingly interconnected digital healthcare environment. Employing a comprehensive methodology that encompasses qualitative and quantitative approaches, including surveys, literature analysis, and case studies, this study delves into how blockchain technology can provide an added layer of security to patient data, enhance privacy through improved access control, and streamline the sharing of health information. The novelty of this research lies in its holistic approach to identifying gaps in blockchain technology application methods within patient data management, while also addressing practical challenges inherent to the digital healthcare context. The anticipated outcomes of this analysis will provide valuable insights for decision-makers aiming to implement blockchain technology to fortify data security, safeguard privacy, and enhance efficiency within patient data management systems. In conclusion, this research contributes to a nuanced comprehension of the potential of blockchain technology to augment security, privacy, and efficiency in patient data management. By shedding light on innovative methods like blockchain integration, this study offers valuable guidance for effectively navigating the dynamic landscape of digital healthcare.

Technology Innovation of Small And Medium Enterprises: A Literature Review Assisted With NVivo 12 Pro

<p><em>This research aimed to explore the technological innovation trends among SMEs in various countries. Data was obtained by searching literature from metadata on the Scopus website from 2020 to 2023. The literature obtained was then selected using the Prisma method based on the researcher's needs, and analyzed qualitatively and mapped with the help of NVivo 12 Pro. The study's results, based on the country of research location, obtained results of innovation in the technology field for SMEs from Indonesia. The best journals with publications quite popular for researchers in the SMEs field are the Journal of Business Research (Q1) and Cogent Business & Management (Q2). Innovation in marketing or advertising is the most dominant, and research will occur in 2022 and 2023. Trends in the use of technology in MSMEs from the results of the literature review include financial systems, exports, transactions, quality management, supply chain management, financial technology, marketing, and production. The literature review results that still need to occur more regarding technological innovation for SMEs are technological innovation at the management or organizational scale.</em></p>

Outlook of the Trend of Technological Innovation on China's Employment Industry

This paper focuses on the impact of technological development on the job market, covering a wide range of areas including primary, secondary and tertiary industries. In the context of technological development, some repetitive and low-skilled jobs will be replaced by automation, but at the same time, more high-skilled and high-value-added jobs will be created. The paper also analyzes the role of technological innovation in driving the job market in China and provides a vision of the future job market - a future where work patterns will become increasingly flexible, including freelance and remote work; where vocational training and education will place more emphasis on practice and innovation; and where the job market will become more international and diverse, requiring people with cross-cultural communication skills and multilingual skills.

Understanding innovation of new energy industry: Observing development trend and evolution of hydrogen fuel cell based on patent mining

Technological innovation is important to further reduce the cost of hydrogen fuel cells (HFC) and enhance commercial availability. Technology patents hydrogen fuel cell play an important role in understanding the trend of technological innovation and future policymaking. By extracting patent data of hydrogen fuel cells from IncoPat database between 2003 and 2022, the knowledge map of hydrogen fuel cell technology was drawn in this paper based on the statistical analysis method and IPC co-category analysis method. The results shows that: (1) From the technology life cycle trajectory, 2003–2013 is the initial stage of hydrogen fuel cell technology, and 2014–2022 is the rapid development period of hydrogen fuel cells. (2) Through mapping the knowledge map of hotspots in the hydrogen fuel cell technology field using IPC co-category analysis, knowledge map shows 849 nodes and 6116 connected lines, and the network density is 0.017. (3) From the hydrogen fuel cell technology clustering map, a total of nine hot topics were formed in 2003–2022, namely H01M8/04089, C08J5/22, H01M4/88, H01M8/0228, H01M8/10, C25B1/04, G01N27/12, F04D29/58, F17C13/02. (4) 59 significant IPCs were placed in the hydrogen fuel cell technology domain from 2003 to 2022. Moreover, the hydrogen fuel cell technology evolution can be divided into three phases, 2003–2008, 2008–2018, and 2018–2022, respectively.

Autonomous ships, port operations, and the challenges of African ports

The introduction of autonomous shipping (AS) into the maritime industry is bringing with it a great shift from conventional shipping to a digitalization mode. Expected benefits, which form the bases for conceiving and developing this innovation, include safety, security, and environmental protection. This innovation is not without some risks, such as non-navigation, cyber-piracy, and other issues which are always associated with new technology. This paper presents recent trends in shipping operations from the 18th century onwards, trends in autonomous system services, and the benefits and challenges of autonomous ships. The paper also navigates three (3) key potential challenges to Africa’s adoption of autonomous shipping in the event of its adoption for commercial shipping. These challenges are Africa’s trade level and trade facilitation, the state of infrastructural development, and piracy and maritime cyber-crimes in Africa. It is suggested that stakeholders in Africa’s maritime industry and government should fashion holistic strategies for trade facilitation, rapid development of key trade infrastructures through investment, and intergovernmental capacities towards curbing piracy activities in the region’s maritime routes. Highlights The study explores the trend of technological innovation in the maritime and shipping industry Benefits and challenges of Autonomous shipping as the current innovation are explored Challenges of adopting this innovation by the African countries and ports are carefully explained Suggestions are made on what to be done by Africa to move in the direction of the world especially with port development and international trade participation

Trends in Technological Innovation in Education During a Time of Pandemic Disruption: Examining The Perspective of Teaching Digital Pedagogy

Since the world has been disturbed by the increasing impact of Covid-19, various countries have applied distance learning, responding to the pandemic policy on an international scale. The author believes that the learning of technological innovation for Indonesia is different from that of developed countries, so this study tries to understand the digital pedagogical perspective of teaching. A series of successful electronic literature searches were carried out on several scientific journal publications, books, and other website literature to get the intended understanding. The data that we have obtained are then analyzed in-depth, involving critical coding and high evaluation to obtain understanding and conclusions that can answer the core questions of this study. We used all data from secondary data, namely scientific evidence published between 2010 and 2021. Then the design of this study was in a descriptive qualitative system under a phenomenological approach, an effort to explore data as widely as possible. After discussing the results, we included that pedagogical technology, which is a method that discusses how teachers handle their duties assisted by technological innovation. However, the pedagogy also helps teachers become student learning facilitators by using existing technological facilities to improve learning outcomes. While at the same time developing students' potential even though they are being afflicted with learning disorders due to pandemics. We hope this result can be a contributing input for further studies.

Technological innovation in libraries

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to identify technological innovation in libraries and further examine the knowledge source and their effects during the technology life cycle (TLC).Design/methodology/approachThis paper discusses the technological innovation taking place in libraries. Patent citation analysis was used to capture the trend of technological innovation associated with libraries.FindingsThe findings are as follows: (1) library technologies are now in the ascent phase of their life cycles; (2) private companies from the United States, Germany, France, Japan and the United Kingdom are the top-five owners of intellectual property rights associated with library technology and (3) patent data along with knowledge and technology indicators can be interpreted in the light of library development. The knowledge source with the highest degree of scientific and technological orientation was identified as basic material chemistry. The major technological categories that have received the greatest knowledge effect from library-associated technological innovation are chemistry, electrical engineering, instruments, mechanical engineering, with other fields (civil engineering and furniture, games) being subject to less effect.Research limitations/implicationsThere are two research limitations in this study. First, the results use single informants, patents retrieved from United States Patent and Trademark Office, as the source of data. Second, this study uses patent citation measures for exploring the knowledge source and effect of technological innovation, these measures are only subjective for those new invention highly based technological advances. This study concludes that technological innovation for libraries will be characterized by an increasing role for science-intensive and interdisciplinary areas. This study also suggests that organizational learning facilitates innovation. Therefore, a library hoping to co-evolve with dynamic environment through technological innovation should improve its organizational learning processes.Practical implicationsTheories of technology-push and demand-pull were examined in relation to technological innovation taking place in libraries. The TLC analysis indicated that library technology is mainly in the ascent stage, suggesting that libraries have not achieved the strongest technological transformation. The findings suggest that the importance of demand-pull and technology-push vary over the TLC of libraries.Social implicationsTo survive in a dynamic environment library must be able to cope with increasing complexity and high-speed technological change. It is pivotal to integrate the views of users (as customers), software houses or design companies (as suppliers) as well as other libraries (as communities) into the sustainable development strategy of a library. In these contexts, libraries with the capacity to innovate will be able to respond to new demands faster and to invent and provide new services better than noninnovative libraries.Originality/valueAnalysis based on the technological innovation perspective to identify the future development of libraries is still lacking. This paper seeks to identify the technological innovation employed in libraries to accommodate the 21st century model of information-seeking behavior. This study identifies a variety of factors that have influenced the transformation of library services, and these include technology developments and new demands from library users. To illustrate the driving forces of technology-push in libraries, this paper examines holistic-patented technologies invented for libraries.

Problematizações das tecnologias digitais na formação do professor de história no contexto amazônico

O presente artigo reflete sobre as possibilidades de formação de graduandos de licenciatura, pensando em diferentes usos das tecnologias digitais de informação e comunicação, elegendo como ponto de partida para essa problematização o trabalho docente em contextos diferenciados da Amazônia. Foi pautado em revisão bibliográfica que aborda discussões sobre tecnologias digitais da informação e da comunicação e seu envolvimento com a história social da Amazônia, região do Xingu, a fim de responder à questão: Como atender as demandas das tendências de inovação científica e tecnológica no contexto das Tecnologias Digitais de Informação e Comunicação (TDICs), na formação de professores? Como resultado, chegamos ao entendimento de que as tecnologias são consequências do processo de evolução da sociedade e que sua aplicação abrange aspectos do desenvolvimento em diversos setores, estando ligado à melhoria da qualidade de vida da população. Desse modo, a educação é o campo em que seu emprego pode ser difundido, havendo então necessidade de investimento na formação de professores nessa área do conhecimento.

When Size Matters: Trends in Innovation and Patents in Latin American Universities

This paper characterizes the trends in technological innovation and intellectual property in four Latin American countries (Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru). Toward this aim, we collected a database of patents granted at the national and university levels in combination with information from a variety of sources to construct a set of plausible explanatory variables. Based on panel data at the national level, we verify that the number of patents granted to universities is strongly associated with the share of resources, as a percentage of GDP, invested in science and technology. At the university level, we find that institutions with more scientific publications and larger enrolment size tend to be granted more innovation patents. To some extent, the evidence presented in this paper indicates that both the absolute and relative sizes of resources invested in scientific and technological research at the university level are subject to economies of scale: a greater amount of resources invested in technological research is associated with increasing levels of innovation and patenting activity.

A katonai műszaki képzés rendszerének kihívásai és lehetséges fejlesztési irányai

The geopolitical changes of the past few years, and the related national security challenges, complemented with the accelerating technical innovation have fundamentally changed the future roles of the Hungarian Defence Forces. This change makes it necessary to revise and, if necessary, modernize the military higher education. The present study focuses on the development possibilities of the Signal, IT, Electronic Warfare and Signal Intelligence departments. These departments have long traditions, and by utilizing the previous achievements, these traditions survived the capability reductions of the last decades. However, in addition to preserving traditions, attention must also be paid to the technical renewal. Therefore, we want to demonstrate the range of technical knowledge that offers effective responses and solutions to the challenges of the 21st century, the applicable teaching and training methods, and their innovative tools. In our writing, we are attempting to identify the most important impact areas of technical higher education, taking into account the current technological innovation trends, and then formulate the possibilities for integrating them into the Hungarian military higher education system.

Learning Curve, Change in Industrial Environment, and Dynamics of Production Activities in Unconventional Energy Resources

Since 2007, shale oil and gas production in the United States has become a significant portion of the global fossil fuel market. The main cause for the increase in production of shale oil and gas in the US is the adoption of new production technologies, namely, horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. However, the production cost of shale oil and gas in the US is comparably higher than the production cost of conventional oil and gas. In 2014, the crude oil and natural gas price decreased significantly to approximately 40 dollars per barrel, and natural gas prices decreased to 3 dollars per million British thermal unit, and thus the productivity and financial conditions for the exploration and production of shale oil and natural gas for producers in the United States have worsened critically. Therefore, technological innovation has become one of the most interesting issues of the energy industry. The present study analyzes the trends in technological innovation having a relationship with production activities. This study calculates the learning rate of 30 companies from the petroleum exploration and production industry in the United States using an improved learning rate calculation formula that reflects the changes in the oil production ratio. Thus, more statistically confident calculation results and interpretations of strategic production activities with regard to changes in the industrial environment were achieved in this study.

Industrial Internet of things at work: a case study analysis in robotic‐aided environmental monitoring

Nowadays, Internet of things (IoT) and robotic systems are key drivers of technological innovation trends. Leveraging the advantages of both technologies, IoT-aided robotic systems can disclose a disruptive potential of opportunities The present contribution provides an experimental analysis of an IoT-aided robotic system for environmental monitoring. To this end, an experimental testbed has been developed. It is composed of: (i) an IoT device connected to (ii) an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which executes a patrolling mission within a specified area, where (iii) an IoT network has been deployed to sense environmental data. An extensive experimental campaign has been carried out to scavenge pros and cons of adopted technologies. The key results of the authors analysis show that: (i) the UAV does not incur any significant overhead due to onboard IoT equipment and (ii) the overall quality of service expressed in terms of network joining time, data retrieval delay and packet loss ratio satisfies the mission requirements. These results enable further development in larger-scale environment.

A research on the technological innovation tendencies of the students of Firat university

Purpose- This study is Firat University undergraduate students oriented and it has been studied to determine the innovation inclinations of these students. Innovations serves as a driving force for both society and economy. Today universities are quite effective adopting and spreading innovations. Creating environment and conditions for enhancing students' innovation inclinations in our country, will make us feeling this effect more. In this way, a society that can temporize to social and technological innovations quickly and provides accretion value to the country by achieving these innovations, can be built. Methodology- This study was carried out to measure the tendencies on innovation and points of view of university students on technological innovation. The survey consists of short answered, scaled, ordinal by priority and multiple-choice 47 questions. Findings- In the analyzes, the respondents' demographics and trends towards technological innovation were evaluated respectively. In the paper, primarily, innovation and technological innovation notions will be explained and after these descriptions some assessments will be made about which specialities of students and their environment affect innovation inclinations. Conclusion- Finally, some suggestions were made to support the technological innovation trends of university students.

Re-futuring: Awareness and design process in hyper-technologic era

The complex relationship between man and technology is the starting point of an interesting design process, aiming to highlight the lack of awareness in most of the behavioral choices of man. Man is distinguished by its nature of finding short-term solutions, with the almost complete inability to prefigure long-term effects resulting from his unconscious decisions. Technology, on the other hand, is developing fast, becoming day by day more potentially uncontrollable. Specific attention is given to the innovations that can cause unpredicted impacts on human life: knowing history by its sociological implications allows us to recognize some recursive patterns that can then be transformed into opportunities. The goal is not an attempt to predict future trends in technological innovation but to find the right formulas in order to raise the level of responsibility in individuals’ behavior. In this paper the role of the designer is analyzed within the technology of 3D printing, enhancing its potential ability of changing both technological and human environments. A first answer to the problems triggered by 3D printing can be found, for example, in the positive phenomena that are activated within collaborating groups by sharing space and knowledge, in communities with a bottom-up approach, where the designer is actively involved. Keywords: human factors, ethics, awareness, 3D printing, rapid manufacturing, behaviors, transdisciplinarity, re-thinking, re-making, metadesign.

The evolution of worldwide research and development on fuel cell for vehicle application based on statistical analysis of literature: A comparative study of major countries

Nearly 10 years of intensive research and development worldwide has resulted in great progress in terms of the performance, durability and cost of fuel cells for vehicle applications. As a result, a new wave of vehicle fuel cell industrialization is approaching. This study provides a statistical analysis of the literature on fuel cells for vehicle applications; to create an overall view of the worldwide patterns of recearch and development (R&D) in this technology, to clarify the pathways of development, and to identify new trends in technological innovation. The analysis includes the quantity and quality of papers and patents, the most focused-on areas and topics of R&D, and the breadth and concentration of participating research institutes. Furthermore, the gap between China and advanced countries was investigated, and the existing problems that China has in R&D and industrialization in this field were documented. Finally, measures for accelerating vehicle fuel cell industrialization in China were proposed from the perspective of the R&D patterns identified.

Planning, designing, delivering, and assessing online instruction in higher education

The purpose of this study was to examine the (a) current characteristics, status, benefits, and barriers of online education and the (b) impact of colleges’ institutional contexts on their approaches to online education. Results indicated that the current status of online education reveals that there is an important role that online instruction plays in society. However, online education has failed to follow the ascending trend of technological innovation and questions regarding the quality of online instruction continue to emerge, as critics continue to question the way online instruction addresses the various learning needs of a diverse group of students.

Invention property-function network analysis of patents: a case of silicon-based thin film solar cells

Technology analysis is a process which uses textual analysis to detect trends in technological innovation. Co-word analysis (CWA), a popular method for technology analysis, encompasses (1) defining a set of keyword or key phrase patterns which are represented in technology-dependent terms, (2) generating a network that codifies the relations between occurrences of keywords or key phrases, and (3) identifying specific trends from the network. However, defining the set of keyword or key phrase patterns heavily relies on effort of experts, who may be expensive or unavailable. Furthermore defining keyword or key phrase patterns of new or emerging technology areas may be a difficult task even for experts. To solve the limitation in CWA, this research adopts a property-function based approach. The property is a specific characteristic of a product, and is usually described using adjectives; the function is a useful action of a product, and is usually described using verbs. Properties and functions represent the innovation concepts of a system, so they show innovation directions in a given technology. The proposed methodology automatically extracts properties and functions from patents using natural language processing. Using properties and functions as nodes, and co-occurrences as links, an invention property-function network (IPFN) can be generated. Using social network analysis, the methodology analyzes technological implications of indicators in the IPFN. Therefore, without predefining keyword or key phrase patterns, the methodology assists experts to more concentrate on their knowledge services that identify trends in technological innovation from patents. The methodology is illustrated using a case study of patents related to silicon-based thin film solar cells.

Bibliometric Analysis of Distributed Generation

This paper describes the application of data mining techniques for eludicating patterns and trends in technological innovation. Specifically, we focus on the use of bibliometric methods, viz techniques which focus on trends in the publication of text documents rather than the content of these documents. Of particular interest is the relationship between publication patterns, as characterized by term occurrence frequencies, and the underlying technological trends and developments which drive these trends. To focus the discussions and to provide a concrete example of their applicability, a detailed case study focussing on research in the area of Distributed Generation (DG) is also presented; however, the techniques and general approach devised here will be applicable to a broad range of industries, situations, and locations. Our results are promising and indicate that interesting information and conclusions can be derived from this line of analysis. The results obtained using data extraction techniques highlight and present the evolution of DG-related technology focus areas, and their relative importance within this field.

The Web of Technology and People: Challenges for Economic and Social Research

The study of technology and people has gained acceptance as a field for social inquiry, but it has remained outside the mainstream of the major disciplines and is dealt with as an interdisciplinary area of specialization across the social and economic sciences. In addition, this field has been fragmented further by particular technologies and issues, creating journals focused on privacy issues, others focused on education, for example, with a gulf remaining between social scientists on the one hand, and engineers and computer scientists on the other. There are also major regional divides, with academics in one part of the world often knowing little about work underway elsewhere. The world-wide push for technological innovation, therefore, demands that the social sciences build a more intensive and internationally networked effort to sustain research on the social aspects of technology, and bring it to bear on policy and practice.Enthusiasm over the Internet and other emerging technologies should not lull the social science research community into complacency. Ironically, unbridled optimism in the coming digital age, or biotech century, and trends in technological innovation and related research and development (R&D) could undermine the vitality of social and economic research. Any agenda for future social science research needs to place a higher priority on the study of technology, to better integrate work on a wider range of technologies, and to attend to a broad array of issues concerning how people produce, utilize, consume, and govern technologies. Otherwise, technical and social choices are likely to escape critical analysis in a wave of next generation enthusiasm.

Merit, Quality, and the SIBR Program

Merit, Quality, and the SIBR Program