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Technological sovereignty, development and adoption of digital technologies
No full textNegli ultimi anni, l'UE è rimasta indietro rispetto ad altri paesi nello sviluppo e nell'adozione di alcune tecnologie digitali avanzate, come l'Intelligenza Artificiale (IA) e la blockchain (Draghi Mario, 2024b). In questo contesto, l'UE ha evidenziato la necessità di rafforzare la propria sovranità tecnologica e digitale in aree strategiche (Bauer & Erixon, 2020). In Italia il ritardo nell'adozione di tecnologie digitali avanzate è più evidente, soprattutto nelle piccole e medie imprese (PMI).
La tesi mira ad analizzare se e in che misura le imprese italiane siano in grado di padroneggiare lo sviluppo e l'adozione delle tecnologie digitali e se una mancanza di autonomia nello sviluppo possa ostacolarne la diffusione. Nello specifico, questo lavoro si concentra sulla tecnologia blockchain e sulla sua applicazione per la tracciabilità delle filiere in Italia. Il primo capitolo discute il tema della sovranità tecnologica e digitale, poi il secondo capitolo si focalizza sullo sviluppo della tecnologia blockchain. Dato il basso livello di sviluppo della blockchain, i capitoli successivi si focalizzano sull’adozione di questa tecnologia nei settori “Made in Italy”. Nello specifico, l’analisi empirica investiga i fattori, a livello d’impresa e locale, che possono influenzare l'adozione della tecnologia blockchain nei settori alimentare e della moda. I risultati mostrano che solo un numero molto limitato di imprese ha adottato la tecnologia blockchain nei settori analizzati, nonostante i potenziali vantaggi per la tracciabilità della filiera. La dimensione d’impresa è uno dei principali fattori che ne spiegano l'adozione. Infine, l’ultimo capitolo fornisce l’analisi di un caso studio volta a supportare l’evidenza delle precedenti analisi quantitative. I risultati suggeriscono la necessità di progettare politiche industriali efficaci a livello regionale e nazionale per migliorare l'adozione della tecnologia blockchain, soprattutto nelle PMI.In recent years, the EU is lagging behind other countries in the development and adoption of some advanced digital technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchain (Draghi Mario, 2024b). In this context, the EU has highlighted the need to strengthen its technological and digital sovereignty in strategic areas (Bauer & Erixon, 2020). In Italy the delay in the adoption of advanced digital technologies is even more evident, especially in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Given these premises, the thesis aims to analyse if and to what extent Italian companies are able to master the development and adoption of digital technologies and whether a lack of autonomy in development may hinder their diffusion. Specifically, this work focuses on blockchain technology and its application for supply chain traceability in Italy. The first chapter discusses the concept of technological and digital sovereignty, then the second chapter focuses on the development of blockchain technology. Given the low level of blockchain development in Italy, the subsequent chapters focus on the adoption of this technology in “Made in Italy” sectors. Specifically, the empirical analyses investigate the factors, at the company and local level, that may influence the adoption of blockchain technology in the food and fashion sectors. The results show that only a very limited number of companies have adopted blockchain technology in the sectors analysed, despite the potential benefits for the traceability of the supply chains. Moreover, the size of the company is one of the main factors explaining its adoption. Finally, the last chapter provides a case study analysis aiming to support the evidence of previous quantitative analyses. Findings suggest that there is a need to design effective industrial policies at regional and national level to enhance the adoption of blockchain technology, especially in SMEs
Fusioni e acquisizioni di imprese in Italia e nelle Marche - tendenze, opportunità e questioni aperte
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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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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