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Brevi riflessioni sullo sviluppo locale sostenibile delle Isole Minori italiane
No full textLe Isole Minori o Piccole Isole italiane sono abitate da circa 200 mila residenti. Si tratta di contesti locali caratterizzati da evidenti peculiarità, nei quali, a fronte di un’elevata disponibilità pro capite di risorse naturalistiche, paesaggistiche e culturali, si osservano consistenti divari territoriali, economici e sociali rispetto al resto del Paese. Nell’impostare una politica di sviluppo per le Isole Minori italiane emerge, dunque, l’importanza di fare leva: i) sulle comunità e sul capitale territoriale per progettare forme di welfare efficaci nel rispondere alle esigenze rilevate e ii) su iniziative economiche sostenibili tanto da un punto di vista globale, quanto (e soprattutto) da un punto di vista locale. La ricognizione delle “distanze” sociali e territoriali come punto di partenza ed un ricorso ad una logica di piattaforma come punto di arrivo sono temi portanti dell’approccio proposto. Ciò è ancor più vero se si considera che l’economia delle Isole Minori è prevalentemente legata al turismo, che nel corso dei decenni si è affiancato ad attività primarie quali l’agricoltura e la pesca. D’altra parte, il turismo sostenibile, oltre ad essere un fine dello sviluppo locale, può costituire un mezzo per accumulare risorse in loco e dare avvio ad uno sviluppo infrastrutturale in grado di sostenere specializzazioni in settori di nicchia, ribaltando, così, la visione che vede le Isole Minori come contesti disagiati. In questa prospettiva, e specialmente nello scenario attuale segnato dalla crisi innescata dal Covid-19, il green public procurement può avere un ruolo di primo piano nell’attivare forme di economia circolare in grado di aumentare la capacità di carico turistica dei territori insulari
Inter-Organizational Relationships in Open Innovation - A Case study in Mature Industry
No full textThis paper borrows from social network theory insights into the supply network structure in order to understand how companies can gain leverage from supply networks in open innovation (OI). In a rapidly changing environment and with an increasing cost of innovation, companies need to search outside for new knowledge and technology to sustain their competitive advantages. Through the in-depth case study of a leading company in the Home Appliances Industry, this paper describes how a company in mature industry gain leverage from its supply networks in inbound open innovation to enhance knowledge flow. The evidence illustrates that the company has involved both strong and weak supply ties in inbound OI as important source of knowledge and technology to accelerate innovation. In particular, we argue that apart from a supporting effect of strong ties in OI activities, involvement of strong supply ties in OI activities may also stimulate the implementation of OI by suppliers and may result in higher innovative performance. Also forming new interactions with new partners and spanning industry boundaries allows companies to gain access new knowledge from different industrial and technological sectors. More precisely, we highlight the importance of creating trust with weak ties and transparent evaluation process
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Inter-Organizational Relationships in Open Innovation - A Case study in Mature Industry
No full textThis paper borrows from social network theory insights into the supply network structure in order to understand how companies can gain leverage from supply networks in open innovation (OI). In a rapidly changing environment and with an increasing cost of innovation, companies need to search outside for new knowledge and technology to sustain their competitive advantages. Through the in-depth case study of a leading company in the Home Appliances Industry, this paper describes how a company in mature industry gain leverage from its supply networks in inbound open innovation to enhance knowledge flow. The evidence illustrates that the company has involved both strong and weak supply ties in inbound OI as important source of knowledge and technology to accelerate innovation. In particular, we argue that apart from a supporting effect of strong ties in OI activities, involvement of strong supply ties in OI activities may also stimulate the implementation of OI by suppliers and may result in higher innovative performance. Also forming new interactions with new partners and spanning industry boundaries allows companies to gain access new knowledge from different industrial and technological sectors. More precisely, we highlight the importance of creating trust with weak ties and transparent evaluation process
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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