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ELICITING THE VALUE OF INNOVATION INTERMEDIARIES IN THE COPERNICUS ECOLOGY: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION
No full textThe Copernicus Programme aims to provide full, free and open access to data and information on our planet and its environment. Copernicus data create value for many end-users (e.g., organisations in the Energy, Insurance, and Health sectors). However, end-users often lack knowledge of the value of Copernicus data for their business, limiting their adoption and hindering the potential value for European citizens. Therefore, the European Commission is promoting the rising of innovation intermediaries to support end-users in adopting the Copernicus Data. Innovation intermediaries are public and private organisations supporting firm-level and system-level innovation. Innovation intermediaries provide links between organisations and share knowledge about technologies and knowledge-intensive products and services. Although the role of innovation intermediaries has been extensively studied in academic literature, end-users' perspective on innovation intermediaries supporting value creation is still under-investigated. Therefore, this study aims to investigate how and why innovation intermediaries enact for intermediated organisations. We investigated four main networks of innovation intermediaries in the Copernicus ecology. The Copernicus Accelerator, the Copernicus Academy, the DIAS platforms, and the Copernicus Relays We conducted 32 semi-structured interviews with managers of end-user organisations who leverage the intermediaries to adopt Copernicus data in their business. We inductively analyse our data, leveraging a knowledge-based view of the well-established VRIO (Value, Rareness, Imitability, and Organisation) framework to sensemake our findings. We found that the Accelerator supports value creation by providing end-users with ecosystem knowledge. The Academy offers technical and ecosystem knowledge, bridging the gap between academia and industry. The DIAS enables end-users to vertically integrate towards the upstream through data accessibility and elaboration infrastructures. The Relays offer ecosystem knowledge and support new partnership development. Besides, taking the end-users' perspective, we discover that innovation intermediaries limit their value enactment when it is difficult to reduce the information asymmetry between the space sector and the end-users, or tend to provide end-users with standardized services rather than tailored ones. Our research contributes to innovation intermediaries and the project ecology body of knowledge. To contribute to practice, we provide the managers of the investigated innovation intermediaries with the VRIO model shaped on their organisations. They can use it to assess their value enactment from the end-users' perspective. Officers in the European Commission may benefit from this study by looking at the value enacted by the intermediaries, checking for their institutional mission alignment, and leveraging the strengths and weaknesses of each intermediary to balance their Copernicus intermediary portfolio
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
L’ingegneria per l’Ambiente e il Territorio
No full textLa presa di coscienza dell’importanza delle problematiche ambientali ai fini della salvaguardia della qualità della vita sul nostro Pianeta favorì, alla fine degli anni Ottanta, l’istituzione nelle Università italiane dei Corsi di Laurea in Ingegneria per l’Ambiente e il Territorio (si veda il D.P.R. 20 maggio 1989, concernente “Modificazioni all’Ordinamento Didattico delle Facoltà di Ingegneria”, Gazzetta Ufficiale del 10 agosto 1989), con l’obiettivo precipuo di formare giovani professionisti con competenze multidisciplinari, in grado sia di analizzare le questioni riguardanti le complesse dinamiche che coinvolgono le componenti ambientali e le trasformazioni territoriali, sia di pianificare, progettare, gestire e manutenere le opere e gli interventi necessari a garantire lo sviluppo in armonia con la tutela dell’ambiente. In particolare, la base comune della preparazione del laureato specialista è la progettazione di opere e impianti compatibili con il territorio e l’ambiente, formando tecnici in grado di operare nella pianificazione, progettazione, realizzazione e gestione di sistemi ambientali anche complessi. Con l’istituzione dei Corsi di Laurea in Ingegneria per l’Ambiente e il Territorio venne così a svilupparsi un settore dell’ingegneria che riguardava lo sviluppo di tecnologie destinate a minimizzare l’impatto delle attività antropiche (agricoltura, industria, insediamenti urbani, trasporti ecc.) sugli ecosistemi naturali e sulla salute pubblica, coprendo una vasta gamma di attività rivolte alla protezione delle risorse naturali: gestione integrata del ciclo dell’acqua, dalle opere di captazione al trattamento e smaltimento dei reflui e dei fanghi; gestione dei rifiuti, con attenzione al recupero di materie prime e di energia; protezione della qualità dell’aria mediante la riduzione dell’inquinamento da emissioni industriali e da motorizzazione; sviluppo di tecnologie per rendere ecocompatibili le produzioni industriali di materie prime, agricole e zootecniche; risanamento di ambienti naturali compromessi, quali falde contaminate, suoli inquinati, laghi eutrofizzati ecc.; monitoraggio; valutazione dell’impatto ambientale e promozione dello sviluppo sostenibile, nonché di predisporre piani di Protezione Civile. All’Università di Bologna, gli attuali Corsi di Studio in Ingegneria per l’Ambiente ed il Territorio derivano dal Corso di Laurea in Ingegneria per l’Ambiente ed il Territorio, attivato nella Facoltà di Ingegneria a partire dall’anno accademico 1990/91 e immediatamente a seguito del D.P.R. 20 maggio 1989. Articolato secondo il percorso unico di durata quinquennale, il Corso di Laurea fu organizzato, fin dall’attivazione, secondo 5 diversi Indirizzi
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
L’ingegneria mineraria all’università di Bologna
No full textNel 1941/42 presso la facoltà di Ingegneria dell'università di Bologna si istituì la “Sezione Mineraria”, essendo stato costituito nello stesso anno l’Istituto di Arte Mineraria, che si affiancava ai già esistenti Istituti di Scienze delle Costruzioni, Idraulica, Costruzioni Idrauliche, Costruzioni Stradali e Ferroviarie, Macchine, Elettrotecnica, Meccanica Applicata alle Macchine, Tecnologie Generali, Tecnologie Speciali, Chimica Applicata, Architettura Tecnica, Fisica tecnica, Topografia e Geodesia. Inoltre, quest’ultimo istituto fu rinominato Istituto di Topografia, Geodesia e Geofisica Mineraria. Un illustre studioso della Scuola di Ingegneria bolognese e suo Preside per 18 anni nell’immediato dopoguerra, il professor Paolo Dore (Firenze 1892 - Bologna 1969), in una sua memoria del 1948 ricorda che: "A Bologna, ad esempio, la sezione mineraria sorse con il fine specifico di preparare degli ingegneri atti alla ricerca e alla coltivazione di giacimenti di idrocarburi, ma si è ben guardata dal limitare a questo specifico fine la preparazione degli ingegneri minerari che, se tali devono essere, devono avere gli elementi che li pongano in grado di sviluppare ogni attività professionale inerente all’ambito minerario. [...] Noi dobbiamo preparare non degli uomini che abbiano la ricetta fatta per un certo numero di problemi, sempre quelli, ma degli uomini che abbiano sufficiente autonomia (e questa è la caratteristica fondamentale che dobbiamo richiedere all’ingegnere) per poter da soli orientarsi nella ricerca della miglio soluzione dei molteplici e multiformi problemi che l’attività professionale porrà loro"
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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