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INTRODUCTION
Full text linkThe "introduction" is the introductory chapter of the book "Innovation Capacity and the City". This open access book makes up one of the key milestones of the DESIGNSCAPES project, a H2020 CSA (Coordination and Support Action) research project funded by the European Commission under the Call “User-driven innovation: value creation through design-enabled innovation. It shows that adopting Design enables to embed Innovation within the City in order to conceptualize feasible answers to complex global challenges. By so doing, innovation can become disruptive for the values it brings while at the same time igniting dynamics of gradual change in the "urbanscape" it acts within. To explore this potential, the concept is developed of “Design enabled Innovation in urban environments” looking at the role that the City can play in promoting and facilitating the adoption of Design by public and private sector innovators. This leads to a possible evaluation framework whereby an urbanscape is considered with respect to both its innovation generation capacity and to the nature (more or less Design dependent, or prone) of the innovative initiatives it hosts. This thread of reasoning has many promising implications, including the proposal of a "third way" between the dreamers of an alternative economic model where revenues and growth are sacrificed on the altar of social and environmental respect, and the supporters of traditional market based view, who think it is enough to add a touch of responsibility and concern to a system that should continue rewarding the profitability of innovations
Supporting negotiation of environmental externalities costs in the olive oil supply chain
No full textInnovation Capacity and the City. The Enabling Role of Design
Full text linkThis open access book makes up one of the key milestones of the DESIGNSCAPES project, a H2020 CSA (Coordination and Support Action) research project funded by the European Commission under the Call “User-driven innovation: value creation through design-enabled innovation. It shows that adopting Design enables to embed Innovation within the City in order to conceptualize feasible answers to complex global challenges. By so doing, innovation can become disruptive for the values it brings while at the same time igniting dynamics of gradual change in the "urbanscape" it acts within. To explore this potential, the concept is developed of “Design enabled Innovation in urban environments” looking at the role that the City can play in promoting and facilitating the adoption of Design by public and private sector innovators. This leads to a possible evaluation framework whereby an urbanscape is considered with respect to both its innovation generation capacity and to the nature (more or less Design dependent, or prone) of the innovative initiatives it hosts. This thread of reasoning has many promising implications, including the proposal of a "third way" between the dreamers of an alternative economic model where revenues and growth are sacrificed on the altar of social and environmental respect, and the supporters of traditional market based view, who think it is enough to add a touch of responsibility and concern to a system that should continue rewarding the profitability of innovations
Enabling situated open and participatory design processes by exploiting a digital platform for open innovation in smart cities
No full textThe paper discusses the experience conducted in the context of Peripheria, a European Project started in 2010, in experimenting with 5 different European cities the perspective of open innovation and crowdsourcing to boost citizens active participation to solve problems of their cities. To reach this goal Peripheria elaborated the notion of challenges as the tool to introduce the competitive dimension for the discovery of emergent needs in gaming and participatory processes that characterises the Periphèria approach.
Similar competition to elicit user engagement and creativity exist in a range of settings (Baek, Manzini & Rizzo, 2010, Von Hippel, 2005; Cautela, Rizzo & Zurlo, 2009), from peer-to-peer innovation mechanisms (between companies, among people from a community, between end users and companies, between experts and companies.
The article discusses the Peripheria general framework as an example of application of open innovation in public sector to co-design services between citizens and cities stakeholders. The core of the project is the ideation of a open platform that aims to support citizens participation to the definition of future services for their cities
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
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
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