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Openness and Innovation: an empirical analysis in Firms located in the Republic of S.Marino
No full textOpening up the innovation process to include collaboration with external partners is an increasingly common practice among
firms. Today also small and medium-sized firms appear to have understood the usefulness of forming alliances and building
networks in order to compete in the knowledge economy. This paper aims to further investigate the actors, the phases of the
innovation process, the dynamics and the determinants that promptbusinesses in a small state suchas San Marino, to collaborate
in innovation beyond their company and territorial boundaries. A survey has been conducted among manufacturing companies
operating in San Marino state with direct structured interviews to the company directors or persons in charge of R&D. Very few
empirical analyses have been conducted in literature on this subject, and in general these analyses have not focused on Small and
Medium Enterprises. Moreover, this paper investigated a territorial context (Republic of San Marino) which until now have
never been analyzed in terms of innovation. From an academic point of view, the results fill a gap in the literature investigating
the influence of competitive factors during the innovation process. Regarding the actors, the openness of NDP phases and the
determinants of open innovation our study for the most partconfirm the literature. The opening up of certain innovation
activities is generally implemented with the aim of integrating and expanding new knowledge and skills and reducing a
product’s time to market. With regard to the variables that influence the openness of the innovation process, the most important
are time, added service and environmental friendliness. From a management point of view, this paper is especially useful to
company directors and government agencies in activating, supporting and guiding innovation policies
Openness and innovation: an empirical analysis in firms located in the Republic of San Marino
No full textOpening up the innovation process to include collaboration with external partners is an increasingly common practice among
firms. Today, also small and medium-sized firms appear to have understood the usefulness of forming alliances and building
networks in order to compete in the knowledge economy. This paper aims to further investigate the actors, the phases of the
innovation process, the dynamics and the determinants that prompt businesses in a small state such as San Marino, to collaborate
in innovation beyond their company and territorial boundaries. A survey has been conducted among manufacturing companies
operating in San Marino state with direct structured interviews to the company directors or persons in charge of R&D. Very few
empirical analyses have been conducted in literature on this subject, and in general these analyses have not focused on Small and
Medium Enterprises. Moreover, this paper investigated a territorial context (Republic of San Marino) which until now have
never been analyzed in terms of innovation. From an academic point of view, the results fill a gap in the literature investigating
the influence of competitive factors during the innovation process. Regarding the actors, the openness of NDP phases and the
determinants of open innovation our study for the most part confirm the literature. The opening up of certain innovation
activities is generally implemented with the aim of integrating and expanding new knowledge and skills and reducing a
product’s time to market. With regard to the variables that influence the openness of the innovation process, the most important
are time, added service and environmental friendliness. From a management point of view, this paper is especially useful to
company directors and government agencies in activating, supporting and guiding innovation policies
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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