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Value creation through innovation: Renewable energy community
No full textInnovation has become in recent years a tool to promote and allow the creation of value, that is, the ability of a company or a company to generate utility, wealth, and growth. In this chapter, the contribution of innovation in decarbonization and in combating the climate crisis is illustrated, paying particular attention to the role of renewable energy communities. They are classified as a means capable of guaranteeing environmentally friendly wealth that aims not only at maximizing profit but also at creating economically sustainable models. Currently, digitalization allows a connection to nodes, peer to peer, while initially, the model was based on one-to-many transmissions, which did not allow the decentralization that are the basis of renewable energy communities; they also have a strong social impact, aiming to increase the production and consumption of energy by renewable sources, with the aim of achieving high levels of energy efficiency within society
Knowledge spillovers and technical efficiency for cleaner production: An economic analysis from agriculture innovation
No full textThe objective of the analysis is to investigate the production efficiency in the USA and Europe through the channel of knowledge spillovers from technological innovation in the agricultural sector. Since the empirical evidence concerning the climate change effects on the production efficiency is yet weak, the paper further contributes to the literature attempting to bridge this gap. To this end, the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) empirical methodology and Tobit regression are developed on the basis of a sector-based panel data set over the time period of 2002–2017. In particular, the empirical results evidenced a negative effect of land use spillovers on efficiency indicator for American firms and a positive effect for European ones. The study findings are innovative and invaluable to generate policy implications for the investigated country governments particularly in terms of developing industrial strategy instruments in the agricultural field: Government is supposed to establish the special funds to encourage the firms to expand innovation activities in their own production process and the investment of R&D is expected to increase, which can further improve the productivity and reduce the reliability of knowledge spillovers. Finally, it is important that the results are scalable, and the model could be extended also to developing countries
The importance of innovation diffusion in the renewable energy sector
No full textIn the last decade, one of the most discussed topics globally concerns the difficult management of climate change and the need for an energy and cultural transition that pays attention so as not to increase territorial inequalities. This chapter aims to provide a clear and comprehensive picture of the importance of innovation in the renewable energy sector and the role of their deployment to ensure climate change mitigation and sustainable growth. The authors will start from the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and then examine the metabolism of current societies, focusing on the trend of the diffusion of technological innovation and its contribution to the energy transition
A Systematic Review Using a Factor in Pestle Framework: COVID-19 Pandemic and Expansion of Economic Environments
No full textThe chapter mainly highlights the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the global economy, utilizing macroeconomic concepts and describing how organizations around the world can use the strategic management technique of drawing up a pestle analysis to provide focused attention to each factor and macroeconomic party. This ultimately comprises the entire economy, with special attention being focused on the expansion of the environmental factor. The key problem discussed in the following research chapter was whether healthcare should be considered as a separate dimension under the environmental category in a pestle analysis. The methodology used involved gathering data from online journals relating to the relevant ministries of healthcare, and an extended review was conducted based on existing sources. The scenarios that unfolded as the pandemic first broke out, the policies imposed by the governments, and their shortcomings as policymakers were discussed, and the current day policies utilized to make sure the brunt of the pandemic doesn’t boomerang again were analyzed
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
Education 4.0: Can it be a component of the sustainable well-being of Students?
No full textThe emergence of Education 4.0 is a result of Industry 4.0 that demands the transformation of the education sector at a different scale. Therefore, students have been challenged to adopt such new methods and technology to integrate into their course of learning. This chapter aims to develop a conceptual frame- work of Education 4.0 in association with students’ well-being in order to contribute a new dimension of Education 4.0 to the well-being of students. Descriptive and exploratory approaches were applied to figure out whether Education 4.0 would lead to the well-being of students in the educational environment. The results outlined the various factors that lead to the positive aspect of Education 4.0 along with various challenges that are required to explore at the society level to implement Education 4.0, which is the current need of society. As we are moving towards digitalization and technology-enabled education system because of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, such adoption may uplift the education system
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
Circular Economy Business Models: The Complementarities with Sharing Economy and Eco-Innovations Investments
No full textThe transition from the linear economy to the circular economy exhibits some criticalities
that can be solved through the identification of factors pushing and pulling the transition itself. By
adopting a public good perspective in analysing the main features of the circular business models, this
study underlines how the sharing economy business models are well integrated and complementary
to some features of the circular economy, representing a strong pulling factor. Other loops of the
circular economy need an explicit push factor, individuated in a strong impulse to eco-efficiency, to
be reached through consistent incentives to invest in R&D for eco-innovations. Seven case studies are
investigated in their aims, feasibility and implementation to support the interpretative framework
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