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3D Printers and Transport
No full text3D printing (3DP) is an emerging technology associated with a more tailor-made, distributed way of manufacturing which, if successful, is bound to have repercussions on transport, supply chains, and logistics. This contribution delves into what 3DP is, how it will influence consumer wants and needs, location choices and transport resistance, and how it might impact society in terms of safety, accessibility and the environment. Based on these insights, the repercussions for the transport and logistics sector are discussed, as well as the nature and survival of firms in the value chain of many industries.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Transport and Logistic
Demanding Dynamics - Demand articulation of intermediary organisations in emerging pharmaceutical innovations
No full textUser involvement in emerging technological fields is carried by so-called demand articulation processes. These demand articulation processes are interactive learning processes in which stakeholders try to address what they perceive as important characteristics of, and to unravel preferences for an emerging innovation. The focus lies on intermediary user organisations, i.e. organised stakeholders that facilitate interactions between users and one or more other actors. In the thesis the following research question is answered: How to understand the demand articulation processes of intermediary user organisations in the context of emerging pharmaceutical technologies? Demand articulation processes are studied in the context of three intermediary user organisations using the ‘event history analysis’. The three Dutch organisations, which are dealing with emerging pharmaceutical innovations are: the Steering committee on orphan drugs, the Breast cancer association, and the Neuromuscular disease association. For the three studied intermediary user organisations it is found that demand articulation processes inside intermediaries can be regarded as an interconnected ensemble of first-order and second-order learning loops. Differences in characterisation of these loops related to distinct contexts and organisations lead to the identification of several specific demand articulation mechanisms, such as ‘management of expectations’, ‘network building’ and ‘active case building’. The intermediary user organisations apply different kinds of interface strategies towards the actors they represent and other relevant parties. The represented actors, subdivided in the ‘silent majority’ and the ‘patient champions’ merit from the representation of them without interaction to quick, passionate calls for action (‘sudden anxiety’) and strategies focusing on longer-term commitment. Concerning interactions with other relevant parties, interface strategies range from asked advocacy in the form of consultative presentation to unasked advocacy, and from forceful to tentative strategies. These strategies were most of the time not the result of ad hoc actions but had a proactive and long-term focus. The analysis showed that intermediaries tried to shape emerging technologies in such a way that the resulting innovations meet the needs and wishes of the users they represent. The identified demand articulation mechanisms and interface strategies illustrate the way in which they attempt to achieve this. Moreover, these organisations are faced with three dilemmas: 1) Positioning: the confrontation of intermediary’s self-position and the position other actors assign to them reveals possible problems with the neutrality of intermediaries. 2) Representation: for intermediaries it is essential to speak on behalf of their members and picture their demands in a representative way. In this way it can enhance the democratic value of the organisations’ decision-making and input in debates. 3) The need to be proactive: in this way, intermediaries can better anticipate the course of the debate. Moreover, by creating a vision of future technologies in an early phase empowers the intermediary. These three dilemmas show that intermediary user organisations play a precarious role in demand articulation in the context of emerging technologies. However, if these dilemmas can be overcome, these organisations could and will play a central and crucial role in (democratically) governing future oriented technology analysis
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
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
Met praktijkgericht onderzoek naar de implementatie van innovaties: Een studie naar de implementatie van zelfmanagementinnovaties voortkomend uit praktijkgericht onderzoek in Nederland
No full textThis thesis is about the implementation of healthcare innovations in self-management emerging from practice-based research. Innovations to support self-management range from digital tools, such as eHealth applications, to health education programmes. Many self-management innovations fit within a specific context because, for example, they target people with certain health conditions. This context dependency means that many innovations are developed specifically for a particular practice or need to be adapted during implementation to fit the practice demand. Therefore, the operation of the innovation in a specific context deserves and requires further research during implementation. For research on the implementation of innovations in specific contexts, practice-based research is appropriate. Practice-based research is research that starts from a question from practice, seeks to provide a solution related to the practice context, and thereby equips professionals with knowledge and knowhow. With this, practice-based research contains a good basis for research in which implementation is part of the research process. However, innovating through (practice-based) research towards feasible and cost-effective improvements in care also proves difficult (Health Council, 2010; ZonMW, 2014). This dissertation studied how practice-based research can be used to contribute to the successful implementation of healthcare innovations in the field of self-management. The thesis answers the following research question:
What are success factors in implementing healthcare innovations in self-management emerging from practice-based research?
The four studies in this thesis collectively show five success factors that can contribute to the implementation of healthcare innovations in the field of self-management resulting from practice-based research. Researchers and students who want to achieve the implementation of innovations through practice-based research should:
1) Establish a reciprocal relationship with the end-users and stakeholders involved during (research) projects.
2) Be present in the practice context to live through the practice situation.
3) Explore solutions in the theoretical, conceptual and practice context.
4) Explore solutions in the practice context, testing the interaction of the innovation with the practice context and all specific features applicable there.
5) Demonstrate, transfer or deliver research results, prototypes and/or (interim) changes to individuals who can take follow-up steps so that the process remains focused on implementing an innovation in a specific practice.
The Research Pathway Model (RPM) presented in this thesis provides a framework to deploy these success factors in a coherent way during (practice-based) research projects in which answers are given to a question from practice and in which the goal is to arrive at a solution for practice.
In the RPM, the steps involving the delivery of theory, knowledge, prototypes and changes in practice are included as research steps. As the RPM has no prescribed sequence, these steps can also be the starting point of a research project. Practice-based research can also focus on how certain knowledge or theory is delivered, how a prototype develops into a market-ready product and/or how a change can be delivered in one or more practices
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
Monitoring pilot versnellingsmakelaars: Evaluatie ondersteuning van opschaling eHealth-innovaties
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