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Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre at Imperial College
No full textThe Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Centre (QCCSRC) was established to investigate key challenges in gas and oil production in Qatar and build local capacity in this area of expertise. The Centre operates at Imperial College London, and is funded by Qatar Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell plc, and the Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP).
Imperial College London is a research-based university specializing in natural sciences, engineering, medicine and business. Founded in 1907, Imperial has about 14,000 full-time students and 3000 academic staff of which 1000 are permanent faculty who teach 242 courses. The College has a turnover of approx. £800, and was ranked 8th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013.
Qatar Petroleum was created in 1974 with the overall objective to maximize the national wealth of the State of Qatar through the exploitation of Qatar's hydrocarbon reserves. Specifically, Qatar Petroleum seeks to provide the nation with a reliable cash flow of maximum value from diversified business interests connected to hydrocarbons; to build an organization with internationally competitive business and technical expertise; to maximize the employment of capable Qatari nationals, and develop their skills to a level comparable to the leading international oil companies; and to meet national oil and gas demand in a cost-effective way.
Royal Dutch Shell is a major international energy corporation. Having invested over $20 billion in Qatar since 2005, it is the country’s largest foreign investor, and works closely with Qatar Petroleum in extracting Qatar’s hydrocarbon reserves. Shell has sought to strengthen its commitment to this location by promoting employment for Qatari nationals and engaging with local universities.
Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) is Qatar’s national agency charged with executing applied research and delivering commercialized technologies in four areas:
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energy, environment, health sciences, and information and communication technologies, and has a remit to promote economic and human capital development in Qatar. Royal Dutch Shell is an anchor tenant in the Park. QSTP comprises 45,000 square meters of multi-user buildings, fitted with offices, laboratories and business facilities, on 120 hectares of designated land.
The 10-year QCCSRC research centre was established in 2008. The QCCSRC’s major objectives are to conduct novel geoscience applied to Qatar’s geological specificities, to support new methods of carbon capture, and develop local talent in Qatar in the wider field of geosciences and engineering. The centre involves over 40 academic staff, postdoctoral researchers and PhD students, drawn mostly from two Imperial departments, the department of Earth Science and Engineering, and the department of Chemical Engineering. Its work programme is structured into five streams. The first stream addresses fundamental research into the geology of oil reservoirs, while the second stream focuses more on the chemistry and physics of the interaction between the rock reservoirs and the fluids they contained. The third stream seeks to integrate the preceding two streams into a mathematical simulation of the behaviour of fluids in various reservoir conditions. The fourth stream takes the data from the simulator and validates it in field experiments, leading to the fifth and final work stream, which involves the creation of a demonstration project in an oil field incorporating the findings from the previous streams of work.
The centre is led by a Director and overseen by a Management Committee which is chaired by a QP representative and including representatives from Imperial and Shell. The Management Committee is responsible for the overall governance of the centre including finance and budgetary approval, as well as the approval of outline work plans. In addition, the centre has a Technical Committee, which is again chaired by a QP representative, with other members drawn from the university and Shell. The technical committee is charged with the creation of the work plans, the definition of project plans and staffing, and with the technical oversight of on-going research. Alongside the director, a programme manager is employed to co-ordinate activities including the compilation of a quarterly management report detailing the work of the Centre, progress against targets and detailed financial metrics.
We conducted seven interviews with key informants involved in the QCCSRC, representing both the industrial and academic context, and including PhD students. Each interview lasted between 20 to 60 minutes. Along with face-to-face interviews we analyzed a series of secondary materials (such as web sites) with the aim to triangulate different sources of data. We also used a body of transcripts of 20 interviews that one of the case study authors had conducted in 2011 with the objective to learn about the nature of the collaboration, its success factors and outcomes, and the benefits and challenges experienced by the various stakeholders
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
A cognitive perspective on learning, decision-making, and technology evaluations in organisations
Full text linkThis dissertation examines how firms’ selection of technological and R&D opportunities shape the performance of their innovation efforts. Managers select R&D investments in complex and uncertain environments where it is difficult to learn from past decisions. I examine this challenge using empirical and agent-based modelling methods and by focusing on three interrelated aspects: managers’ individual learning processes, the adaptation of mental representations in complex environments, and the role of distributed expertise in group evaluations. In the first chapter, I propose an alternative explanation to how managers learn from experience that does not involve feedback and that is thus applicable to contexts where learning from feedback is difficult. I test this novel learning mechanism, termed ‘representation learning’, by analysing a large proprietary dataset of patent evaluations and termination decisions made by managers at a Fortune 500 firm. The second chapter explores further implications for performance of representation learning by means of an agent-based model of representation and policy search in rugged landscapes. This study examines how different representation search strategies affect decision-makers’ adaptation in complex environments. Finally, the third chapter explores the performance of group evaluation processes when evaluators differ in the depth and breadth of their knowledge of the technologies being evaluated. This research contributes to management literature by shedding light on the cognitive processes underlying learning and decision-making in uncertain and complex environments. These findings also have practical implications for strategy research and practice concerning the management of uncertain R&D and technology investments.Open Acces
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
Enhancing entrepreneurial innovation through industry-led accelerators: corporate-new venture dynamics and organizational redesign in a port maritime ecosystem
Full text linkThis PhD dissertation studies the management and design of corporate accelerators, in particular, industry-led value chain corporate accelerators. I addressed a multi-faceted research question about the novelty, corporate impact, dynamics and design of industry-led accelerators. Using a longitudinal, inductive, multiple-case embedded research design that analyses the industrial accelerator interface, the relationships between incumbent firms and external new ventures and the R&D/innovation units of established firms in a port maritime complex, this dissertation addresses this multi-faceted research question and it makes five core contributions. First, it positions, for the first time, the corporate accelerator phenomena at the intersection of fundamental management research streams, including organizational design, dynamic capabilities and corporate entrepreneurship. Second, it conducts the first study of the promising model of industry-led accelerator by inductively generating a four-step framework of how these accelerators work: i) co-define a broad innovation remit, ii) generate an innovation funnel to attract start-ups and scale-ups, iii) mutual sensing via flexible matching iv) select for scale and investment. Third, it finds striking counter-intuitive evidence in that the industry-led accelerator not only accelerates external new ventures but rather the corporate partners themselves by triggering them to internalize the lean start-up method and redesign their R&D/innovation processes and routines. To explain this, I inductively developed a four-phases process model of corporate entrepreneurial capability-building, comprising: a) attracting, b) strategic fit sensing, c) shaping and d) internalizing. Fourth, this dissertation uncovers three novel tensions—internalization, implementation and role—at the incumbent - new venture interface and develops a new ecological and symbiotically-inspired framework for tension identification and mitigation in industrial acceleration contexts. Fifth, and finally, using the frameworks and process models developed, this dissertation proposes a new toolkit (industrial acceleration design canvas and workshops) to orient practitioners when strategizing, designing and sustaining corporate new venture ecosystem acceleration initiatives.Open Acces
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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