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The Contribution Of Visionary Projects To The Innovation Project Portfolio: Analysing The Exploration Of Technological Innovations In Design Oriented Contexts
No full textThe increasingly competitive and global economy requires that companies constantly nurture the market with new products and services, better than the old ones, faster than competitors and that are more meaningful to users. Companies are required to pursue innovation while sustaining the operational effectiveness of their normal core business. Well-established companies tend to work on incremental innovations that build on their existing competences in order to sustain the normal progress of their business. Innovation research though suggests that exploring opportunities of a more radical nature opens new opportunities for growth and successful long-term performance. At the same time, scholars state that strategic decisions about project selection, resource allocation and portfolio balance have a positive impact on innovation performance and the successful achievement of strategic goals, suggesting thus that effective portfolio management results in innovation success. The present investigation is based on a mono-firm longitudinal case study in the high-end design furniture industry. The research studies how a design-oriented firm (Cassina) embraces its own approach to technology in order to develop a vision of the future of living, while still pursuing excellence in its core business. The paper analyses the contribution of a visionary project (VP) developed in partnership with the studio carlorattiassociati, to the overall innovation project portfolio; analysing the effects of exploring technological innovation in design- oriented contexts. Overall we found that introducing visionary projects (VP) that approach more radical endeavours affects the strategic selection criteria of project typologies and partner (designers) categories, the breadth and homogeneity of the portfolio, innovativeness of individual projects, and firm-specific organisational learning. Findings offer new insights to the field of project portfolio strategy from a design-oriented perspective, and contribute to design-driven innovation theory by analysing the dynamics of technology and meanings through the holistic lens of portfolio strategy
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
Radical Innovative Scenarios Enabled By New Technologies: Exploring The Role Of 'Outsider' Partners
No full textThe increasingly competitive economy encourages firms to explore new paths to innovation. The combination of design and technology is identified as a critical success factor, particularly during explorative phases of the process, concerned with the envisioning of possible futures. In parallel, external collaborations are recognized as a key element in the development of innovations. The aim of this paper is to clarify the way co-creation with outsiders occur when pursuing technology epiphanies, by understanding the role that ‘outsider’ partners play on the generation of radical innovations that combine technology and meanings. The investigation consequently analyses the managerial implications of handling innovation projects in collaboration with non-usual partners. The research studies the collaboration between the furniture manufacturer [Cassina] with an ‘outsider’ partner [Carlo Ratti Associati] for the co-creation of future scenarios of living. Empirical data is collected through formal project meetings, observation, and informal discussions with project stakeholders. Findings reveal that the involvement of ‘outsiders’ in radical hybrid (technology and meanings) co-creation projects has an impact not only on project outcomes, but also on the practices with which the firm manages these collaborations, suggesting that organisations need to adopt alternative project competences and governance practises towards innovation
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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