Pub Date : 2012-09-10DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2012.048989
J. Ferreira, C. Marques, C. Fernandes
This research aims to identify the factors which influence the location of technology-based firms. For this purpose, a conceptual research model on the location of firms, based on the neoclassical, behavioural and institutional views is developed. In order to reach these objectives, an empirical study was developed based on a questionnaire filled by 203 technology-based firms located in the Beira Interior region (Portugal). The resulting data was subject to two types of statistical analyses: bivariate and multivariate analyses. It was possible to identify crucial factors that mostly influence the location of these firms. These factors were: founder’s wish to live in a particular locality, employees’ wish to live in that particular locality; proximity to the residence of the founder; birthplace of the founder; and the level of economic activity in the region.
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Pub Date : 2012-06-29DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2012.047560
C. Ioakimidis, S. Casimiro, Sung Jae Kim, Jongyoon Han
Fresh water scarcity is one of the major challenges facing our society. Established technologies exist, though they are still very expensive preventing them from the immediate use and possible final solution. In this work it is analysed an innovative technology developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for desalination, using ionic concentration polarisation (ICP). The economic viability and a potential business model to deploy this technology are described further in this work. Construction of a prototype with several microchannels, and product development are still necessary, but the adoption of the niche market for small emergency devices to produce fresh water for boats can potentially be a successful path to deploy this technology.
{"title":"Technology transfer approaches for early stage desalinisation technologies: a case study","authors":"C. Ioakimidis, S. Casimiro, Sung Jae Kim, Jongyoon Han","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2012.047560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2012.047560","url":null,"abstract":"Fresh water scarcity is one of the major challenges facing our society. Established technologies exist, though they are still very expensive preventing them from the immediate use and possible final solution. In this work it is analysed an innovative technology developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for desalination, using ionic concentration polarisation (ICP). The economic viability and a potential business model to deploy this technology are described further in this work. Construction of a prototype with several microchannels, and product development are still necessary, but the adoption of the niche market for small emergency devices to produce fresh water for boats can potentially be a successful path to deploy this technology.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132357943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-29DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2012.047561
K. Tanimoto
This paper explores the process of how social innovation is created. There have been many researches about social entrepreneurs. However, few studies have been made about social innovation in comparison to many researches in business innovation. Most social innovation is not created by a single entrepreneur (producer) but in collaboration with related stakeholders including customers, civil society organisations, local businesses, researchers and so on. This paper tries to clarify this process through a case study of the Hokkaido Green Fund, an environmental NGO in Japan. They have introduced the first community wind energy business in Japan. The social entrepreneurs co-create unique ideas with stakeholders and obtain various resources from them in tackling social issues, and create an innovative scheme. This paper tries to present a new perspective for the analysis of the social innovation process from the viewpoint of multi-stakeholders.
{"title":"The emergent process of social innovation: multi-stakeholders perspective","authors":"K. Tanimoto","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2012.047561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2012.047561","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the process of how social innovation is created. There have been many researches about social entrepreneurs. However, few studies have been made about social innovation in comparison to many researches in business innovation. Most social innovation is not created by a single entrepreneur (producer) but in collaboration with related stakeholders including customers, civil society organisations, local businesses, researchers and so on. This paper tries to clarify this process through a case study of the Hokkaido Green Fund, an environmental NGO in Japan. They have introduced the first community wind energy business in Japan. The social entrepreneurs co-create unique ideas with stakeholders and obtain various resources from them in tackling social issues, and create an innovative scheme. This paper tries to present a new perspective for the analysis of the social innovation process from the viewpoint of multi-stakeholders.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122257773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-29DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2012.047564
Panagiotis Tragazikis, Sotiris Kirginas, D. Gouscos
This paper introduces a some good examples of digital games freely available on the web that can be used as educational tools supporting entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity skills b an evaluation framework for identifying such examples. To this end, in the first part of the paper, indicative examples are provided for digital games purposed for entertainment and/or learning, drawn from the broad array of online available business games. In the second part of the paper, the examples provided are evaluated along three dimensions: a generic dimension related to digital-games based learning (DGBL) aspects; and two more specific dimensions, focused on the innovation/creativity and entrepreneurship skills that can be encouraged (and gradually exercised and learnt) through gameplay. The final objective of this evaluation is twofold: firstly, to locate similarities, differences, strengths and weaknesses of the games currently available, that can help identify specific needs for digital games-based entrepreneurial learning material; and secondly, to provide a set of findings and issues that need to be considered while developing (or repurposing) digital games for entrepreneurial learning.
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Pub Date : 2012-06-29DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2012.047559
Tina Bratkovič Kregar, Alex F. DeNoble, B. Antoncic
Entrepreneurs have access to many valuable resources, information, advice and moral support through their personal networks. In order to accurately manage the personal relations in personal networks, it is important to know the structure of the network. The main focus of this study is on the structural characteristics of a micro-firm entrepreneur’s personal network. In this study a single case analysis approach is used. The study’s principal goal is to present an analysis of the structural characteristics of the entrepreneur’s personal network, and each entrepreneur’s personal sub-network. The study provides significant contributions to entrepreneurship network theory and practice. The findings of this research could be helpful for entrepreneurs who are in the process of forming their personal networks as well as for entrepreneurs who want to improve the efficacy of their personal networks.
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Pub Date : 2012-06-29DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2012.047565
R. Pavlov
Some aspects of innovative development in terms of the long wave concept are studied in this paper. The stage of the sixth long wave, which is reached by the USA as the leader of the nanotechnological development, is specified. The innovative potential of Russia in the area of nanotechnologies is estimated.
{"title":"Conceptual fundamentals of the long wave theory and the innovative potential of the Russian economy","authors":"R. Pavlov","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2012.047565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2012.047565","url":null,"abstract":"Some aspects of innovative development in terms of the long wave concept are studied in this paper. The stage of the sixth long wave, which is reached by the USA as the leader of the nanotechnological development, is specified. The innovative potential of Russia in the area of nanotechnologies is estimated.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128175239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-29DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2012.047563
I. Fafaliou
This paper seeks to provide evidence on the entrepreneurial propensity of a sample of 364 Greek students, who, at the time of our research, attended classes at a specific University of Economics and Business Studies. Our findings demonstrate that almost half of the students surveyed (46.5%) were positively disposed towards entrepreneurship despite any difficulties that they could probably encounter in the pre- and early-startup phase of their business venture. One third of the respondents (34.7%) reported that they already had an idea of the type of business they desired to establish. However, the majority stated that they were insufficiently prepared to become self-employed. In conclusion, there is much scope to designate and ameliorate entrepreneurship courses across the curricula of the specific university; such efforts could be further enhanced through more targeted longitudinal research in Greece and other South European countries, which face similarly increasing graduates' unemployment levels.
{"title":"Students' propensity to entrepreneurship: an exploratory study from Greece","authors":"I. Fafaliou","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2012.047563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2012.047563","url":null,"abstract":"This paper seeks to provide evidence on the entrepreneurial propensity of a sample of 364 Greek students, who, at the time of our research, attended classes at a specific University of Economics and Business Studies. Our findings demonstrate that almost half of the students surveyed (46.5%) were positively disposed towards entrepreneurship despite any difficulties that they could probably encounter in the pre- and early-startup phase of their business venture. One third of the respondents (34.7%) reported that they already had an idea of the type of business they desired to establish. However, the majority stated that they were insufficiently prepared to become self-employed. In conclusion, there is much scope to designate and ameliorate entrepreneurship courses across the curricula of the specific university; such efforts could be further enhanced through more targeted longitudinal research in Greece and other South European countries, which face similarly increasing graduates' unemployment levels.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114640534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-29DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2012.047558
C. Henning, V. Saggau
This paper applies an agent-based model to simulate the impact of different network structures on spatial diffusion of knowledge and regional technological progress. Main results are: 1information network structures have a significant impact on both spatial information diffusion and regional technological progress 2information diffusion in networks is only imperfect, i.e., accumulated knowledge in regional networks correspond only to a constant fraction of technological knowledge generated in leader regions? 3this fraction is c.p. higher for scale-free (SF) networks when compared to random and small-world network (SWN) 4this fraction increased for SF networks with the preferential attachment parameter and for small world networks with the a-parameter 5in contrast to classical catch-up models our network approach to spatial diffusion of technological knowledge implies that except for extreme centralised or dense networks catching-up does not occur.
{"title":"Networks, spatial diffusion of technological knowledge and regional economic growth: an agent-based modelling approach","authors":"C. Henning, V. Saggau","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2012.047558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2012.047558","url":null,"abstract":"This paper applies an agent-based model to simulate the impact of different network structures on spatial diffusion of knowledge and regional technological progress. Main results are: 1information network structures have a significant impact on both spatial information diffusion and regional technological progress 2information diffusion in networks is only imperfect, i.e., accumulated knowledge in regional networks correspond only to a constant fraction of technological knowledge generated in leader regions? 3this fraction is c.p. higher for scale-free (SF) networks when compared to random and small-world network (SWN) 4this fraction increased for SF networks with the preferential attachment parameter and for small world networks with the a-parameter 5in contrast to classical catch-up models our network approach to spatial diffusion of technological knowledge implies that except for extreme centralised or dense networks catching-up does not occur.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133978414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-05-02DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2012.046584
Patricia Graf
This paper explores the interactions of regional actors engaging in innovation policy. By comparing the software/electronics industry with the shoe industry, we show that the hightech sectors engaged in local innovation policy, whereas more traditional industries have been reluctant to open up to innovation. We argue that actors had different opportunities for policy engagement or made different use of these opportunities due to the framing of innovation policy as high-tech policy, as well as to the remaining structure of corporatism. However sustainable growth can only be achieved by tailoring innovation policies to include all sectors, rather than focusing on high-tech innovation. The article is based on official statistics in addition to our own qualitative interviews with regional experts.
{"title":"One policy fits all? Regional innovation policy in Jalisco","authors":"Patricia Graf","doi":"10.1504/IJIRD.2012.046584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIRD.2012.046584","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the interactions of regional actors engaging in innovation policy. By comparing the software/electronics industry with the shoe industry, we show that the hightech sectors engaged in local innovation policy, whereas more traditional industries have been reluctant to open up to innovation. We argue that actors had different opportunities for policy engagement or made different use of these opportunities due to the framing of innovation policy as high-tech policy, as well as to the remaining structure of corporatism. However sustainable growth can only be achieved by tailoring innovation policies to include all sectors, rather than focusing on high-tech innovation. The article is based on official statistics in addition to our own qualitative interviews with regional experts.","PeriodicalId":260303,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124458499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-05-02DOI: 10.1504/IJIRD.2012.046580
Per Levén, J. Holmström
The paper provides an integrated view of value creation in the development of new products and services related to IT. We argue that customer and end-user integration into the development process as a whole is a key for enhanced innovation processes. Building on experiences from two regional IT innovation projects conducted with a living lab approach, we ask how this approach can help organisations utilise important resources in an open innovation system and guide universities – as driving engines in regional innovation systems – to improve their environments for research and education. Exploring the outcome from the projects and how customers are integrated into value creation processes during the course of IT design and use, we argue that innovation systems management and customer integration are important assets not only to increased efficiency and quality, but also for enhanced innovation.
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