Welcome to our weekly selection of digital innovation news. Based on our opinionated always changing automated token based selection algorithm we present some top innovation news to get you thinking, debating and collaboration on making our world better.
1 Absorptive capacity and innovation in low-tech companies in emerging economies
Using the absorptive capacity as a driver of technological and non- technological innovation capacity, this study proposes a SEM model to contribute to the literature of innovation capacity including technological and non-technological innovation, and the relationship between them, in low- techonology industries in an emerging economy. This study tries to shed some light on the drivers of innovation capacity for low technological companies in emerging economies.
(Journal of Technology and management)
2 Jim Hall: The next step in open data is open source
According to the Open Data Barometer, many municipalities already provide open data for geographic information, transportation, trade, health, and education, with a mix of other open data sets. For example, The US Government has an open data portal that publishes data on various topics, including agriculture, education, energy, finance, and other public data sets. Via the open source portal, users can download open source projects, toolkits, installer profiles, online forms, JavaScript widgets, and other code samples. Just as governments found a balance in providing open data, government open source must consider what software can and cannot be shared as open source software. I believe the next iteration from open data is open source.
3 Innovation models and technological parks: interaction between parks and innovation agents
One of the main contributions of current study is the integrating approach of interactions between parks and agents mentioned in innovation models. Technological parks are strategic innovation places for the stimulation of synergy among different agents. Current theoretical study identifies forms of interactions between technological parks and agents mentioned in interactive models of innovation. Overall interaction, provided in the results, favors the visualization of the parks´ management dynamics and the implementation of innovation models. Its practical contribution comprises subsidies for the construction of strategies, definition of stakeholders´ management and elaboration of good practices for technological parks.
(Journal of Technology and management)
4 Modern innovation challenges to firms and cities: The case of Portugal
This work analyses where Portugal stands in terms of innovation in general, propensity for open innovation and innovation sustainability. Modern competition is tough due to emergent information systems and technologies. An important step is to employ strategies based on open innovation. It suggests that Portuguese firms must cut back on activities that are not leading to the outcomes needed. An HJ-Biplot methodology was applied to a valid sample from CIS 2012 (Community Innovation Survey).
(Journal of Technology Management & Innovation)
5 China could face deadly heat waves due to climate change
The study is the third in a set; the previous two projected increases of deadly heat waves in the Persian Gulf area and in South Asia. In 2013, extreme heat waves in the region persisted for up to 50 days, and maximum temperatures topped 38 C in places. Major heat waves occurred in 2006 and 2013, breaking records. They used two different future scenarios: business as usual, with no new efforts to reduce emissions; and moderate reductions in emissions, using standard scenarios developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And signs of that future have already begun: There has been a substantial increase in extreme heat waves in the NCP already in the last 50 years, the study shows.
6 An Innovator Who Brings Order to an Infinitude of Equations
More recently, in the 1980s, Shigefumi Mori proved that all three-dimensional algebraic varieties (varieties with four variables) reduce to one of these three types. As a mathematician, Birkar has helped bring order to the infinite variety of polynomial equations — those equations that consist of different variables raised to various powers. The minimal model program goes back more than 100 years to a group of Italian mathematicians who first classified two- dimensional algebraic varieties (varieties with three variables). At the time he met Birkar, Shokurov had been working for years in a nearly abandoned subfield of algebraic geometry called birational geometry. There was no one at the University of Nottingham who specialized in algebraic geometry, the field Birkar hoped to enter.
7 Selling Solutions Isn’t Enough
Becoming an outcome-oriented B2B business isn’t easy. The insights gained from the interviews and workshops have been refined through successive waves of online research involving more than 3,800 B2B customers. In this article, we describe how four companies have chosen to move away from selling solutions in favor of identifying and delivering outcomes that customers want. This concept — that B2B companies are in business to make their customers more successful — requires focusing on the customers’ customers. Any one of these changes in isolation would require B2B companies to revamp their marketing practices.
8 Could machine learning mean the end of understanding in science?
… had been thought possible. And the machine did that just by observing the system ‘s dynamics, without any knowledge of the underlying equations.
9 August is ChannelWorm Month at OpenWorm!
In particular, ion channels in the nervous system mediate the generation of action potentials, the fundamental mechanism by which a network of neurons processes information. Ion channels are the most granular level of detail in OpenWorm. Our scientific and outreach committees have decided that each month will be dedicated to a specific repository that will be designated “Project of the Month.” This coming month (August 2018) will be dedicated to ChannelWorm, a repository aimed at constructing quantitative models of ion channel behavior. The aim of ChannelWorm is to build quantitative models of ion channel function.
(OpenWorm)
10 Time constructs: Discursive temporality in the future Internet
Critical theorists from Scott Lash to Trebor Scholz, software studies adherents such as Alex Galloway, sociologists including Manuel Castells, and science and technology studies (STS) theorist Judy Wajcman — among others — have pointed out that the mobility, speed, responsiveness, and increasingly real-time characteristics of computer and application interfaces have a great deal to do with the social, economic, and political structure of contemporary society. What these fields leave relatively undertheorized can best be phrased as a question: How is technology is developed in relation to concepts of time and temporality? This paper supplies an answer, derived from interview and document data regarding a real-time videoconferencing application named Flume, which runs on Named Data Networking (NDN), a NSF-funded Future Internet Architecture (FIA) project that is currently underway.
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