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Failure in R&D efforts are fairly common and with many factors that contribute to the outcome. This book focuses on the role of principal investigators (PIs) in R&D project failures and provides a theoretical model explaining how firm characteristics, including those of the PIs, impact the probability of failure. The theoretical model also serves as a structural form model to motivate the empirical analysis which assesses the probability of failure in small technology-based firms. The author uses data from the U.S. Department of Energy¿s (DOE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to build a new and informative tool to assess R&D projects and demonstrate the strengths of the theoretical model. The association between PIs and R&D failure not only provides insights that can have a downstream impact to economic growth, but it can also provide policymakers with valuable information to aid decisions in allocating funds for R&D.

This book explores how China's industrial transformation and development depend on technology and innovation and how considerations about issues associated with technology and innovation may affect China's development strategies. Market-oriented reforms initiated four decades ago have constantly fueled a high speed of development in China. The country's industrial structure has experienced rapid evolution. In the meantime, especially in the general context of globalization, the country has also opened to foreign trade and foreign direct investment, transforming itself from a virtually completely closed economy into a major trading nation and the largest developing country destination for foreign direct investment in the world. Technology is thought to be one of the key driving forces that shape the transformation of the Chinese economy. Owing to different speeds of innovation and technology diffusion, uneven development is one major issue in the process of China's industrial transformation under new trends of globalization. Substantial disparities across different Chinese regions, e.g., the gaps in regional industrial development and those in incomes and living standards, have been one prominent feature of China and are (needless to say) closely related to different speeds of innovation and technology diffusion. The relationship between technology diffusion, innovation, and industrial development is an important yet complicated issue that deserves careful study. Considerations related to technology and innovation play a crucial role in leading and shaping China's development strategies and routes. Sustainable development of China creates strong pressures for continuous transforming, upgrading, and restructuring of the Chinese economy, and in all of these processes, innovation and technology diffusion play a fundamental role. The book presents to the interested reader facts, thoughts, models, empirical results, and discussions that shed light on those issues.

LIGHT YOUR FIRE!Regardless of whether you are the founder of a start-up, company successor, freelancer or young professional: the image that we present in public is crucial for our success. The reason is that our presence and actions have a direct impact on our own brand - even if we do nothing at all. As a result, it is all the more important to actively shape your image instead of leaving it to chance. That's how to build a sustainable brand with a high recognition value.How do you become a brand?What makes you unique and distinct?In »Light your Fire!«, Tilo Bonow vividly demonstrates how to successively build and cultivate your own personal brand. Ifyou've set your sights on success, a strategically well-structured, positioned and managed personal brand is vital. Only uniqueness sets us apart, makes us interesting - and guarantees more opportunities, recognition, contacts and, of course, more revenue.An enlightening and entertaining read that includes practical instructions and examples. Tilo Bonow demonstrates howanyone can establish their personal brand step by step. With the tried and tested 4C Concept - Clarity, Credibility, Consistency and Continuity - future makers can learn how to light their own fire.

As the COVID-19 crisis comes to an end, leaders, organizations, and governments have to develop a "e;new normal"e; for doing business with a focus on protecting the environment, integrating new technologies and adapting to new social changes. Based on empirical studies and conceptual contributions from researchers and practitioners presented at the Griffiths School of Management & IT's 12th Annual Conference on Business, Entrepreneurship and Ethics (GSMAC), this proceedings volume provides a multifaceted perspective on the impact and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on various public and private systems including education, business organizations and consumer behavior. In particular, this book explores the impact of the pandemic on remote work and employee health, sustainable development, and economic growth, among others. It also highlights the role of data analysis in understanding trends, opportunities, and challenges in the above systems.

The past decade has brought to the fore the critical need to constantly envision and consider various scenarios where ongoing trends and sudden changes could together alter the provision of healthcare and the direction of medical research. This book brings together scholars whose areas of expertise represent different themes that are essential to understanding how healthcare might change and evolve over the next decade. What lessons can one take away from current and past developments? The themes explored by the book rest on four pillars. The first is the rapid pace and ubiquity of technological advances in areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, additive manufacturing and wearable electronics. The second pillar concerns healthy aging, longevity and the management of chronic diseases. The third is the imperative to remain cognizant of the ethical dimensions of medical decisions, adapting bioethics to ongoing changes in healthcare provision. Finally, the fourth pillar relates to how uncertainty in different domains of medical knowledge can be mitigated and translated into clinical practice. For example, how should uncertainty with the results of clinical trials for a new treatment be dealt with? What cost-benefit analyses would be most appropriate for the situation? Chapter authors identify respective challenges and promising opportunities, discussing how these could contribute to envisioning the future scope of healthcare when it comes to providing medical, economic and ethical values to human societies.Chapters 1, 4, 12, and 20 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book discusses theoretically and empirically the trade-off relationship between the frequency of product adaptation activities and the constraints on development resources, and how companies can respond to these constraints. The objective of this book is to identify effective management practices in continuous product development. With the continuation of development activities, companies are required to constantly adapt their products to changes in the external environment. In continuous product development, the development process extends beyond product release, and interaction with the external environment is not limited to the planning stage but occurs multiple times throughout the process. What impact does the multiple adaptation activities have on the product performance as development activities become more continuous, and how to use limited development resources to provide stable and constant high-quality adaptation activities with optimal frequency have become urgent issues in the development sites. To address these research questions, this book focuses primarily on the development activities of the online game industry. The factors that bring about superior product performance are examined by combining case studies and questionnaire surveys on online game development projects. Furthermore, user community management is also discussed from the perspective of the interaction process between multiple user groups.

This book examines the current status of mHealth development, regulations and the social background in Japan, South Korea and China, comparing it to the situation in the United States and the European Union and consider solutions to issues surrounding mHealth.The recent progress in mobile technology, represented by smartphones and smart watches, has been remarkable. A service called mobile health (mHealth), which uses such mobile technology to manage health, is also becoming a reality. Although the accuracy of medical devices is not as accurate as those used in medicine, the biometric information such as heart rate and SpO2 can already be monitored over a long period of time. Although the technology is maturing to the point where it can be implemented in society, it remains an unapproved service of medical care in most countries. The development and social implementation of mHealth is most active in the US, but social implementation is gradually progressing in other countries as well. In this book, we will first discuss what kind of global and harmonized regulations are desirable by comparing the regulatory reforms necessary for social implementation of mHealth. In addition, mHealth raises privacy concerns in the US because the usual behavior and biometric information of subjects is utilized by private companies. In addition, it is important to note that the behavior and biometric information of subjects collected by smart devices is automatically analyzed by AI technology, mainly machine learning, which makes the analysis a black box.

This book provides retail managers with a practical guide to using data. It covers three topics that are key areas of innovation for retailers: Algorithmic Marketing, Logistics, and Pricing. Use cases from these areas are presented and discussed in a conceptual and comprehensive manner. Retail managers will learn how data analysis can be used to optimize pricing, customer loyalty and logistics without complex algorithms.The goal of the book is to help managers ask the right questions during a project, which will put them on the path to making the right decisions. It is thus aimed at practitioners who want to use advanced techniques to optimize their retail organization.

"Our Next Reality does a fantastic job of giving a balanced and insightful analysis to some of the most pressing questions our society will face in the near future. The material is data driven, digestible, and very actionable." RAY KURZWEIL, Author/Entrepreneur/Futurist"A wide-reaching exploration of the intersections between AI, VR and AR: it's a mind-opener, and a source of reflection on how transformative and still unknown the future of communication, personal technology and even personal privacy might become." SCOTT STEIN, Editor at Large, CNETOver the last 100 years, technology has changed our world. Over the next decade it will transform our reality.We are entering a new technological age in which artificial intelligence and immersive media will transform society at all levels, mediating our lives by altering what we see, hear, and experience. Powered by immersive eyewear and driven by interactive AI agents, this new age of computing has the potential to make our world a magical place where the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the human and the artificial, rapidly fade away. If managed well, this could unleash a new age of abundance. If managed poorly, this technological revolution could easily go astray, deeply compromising our privacy, autonomy, agency, and even our humanity.In Our Next Reality, two industry veterans provide a data-driven debate on whether the new world we're creating will be a technological utopia or an AI-powered dystopia and give guidance on how to aim for the best future we can. With a Foreword by renowned author Neal Stephenson and section contributions from industry thought-leaders such as Peter H. Diamandis, Tom Furness, Phillip Rosedale, Tony Parisi, Avi Bar Zeev and Walter Parkes, this book answers over a dozen of the most pressing questions we face as artificial intelligence and spatial computing accelerates the digitization of our world. Find out why our actions in the next decade could determine the trajectory of our species for countless millennia."For anyone who wants to use AI and XR to help build the future, read this book to help you skillfully navigate a future of unprecedented danger and promise." JASON HINER, Editor in Chief, ZDNet"Our Next Reality really is a must-read for anyone who wants to prepare for the massive AI and XR driven disruption coming our way." CHARLIE FINK, Author | Adjunct | Forbes Tech Columnist

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The use of cloud applications is becoming increasingly popular due to their scalability and cost advantages. However, companies need help in adopting cloud applications due to their internal policies and compliance requirements. Trust and security are crucial factors that influence the adoption of cloud applications. This book proposes a cloud architecture that addresses this challenge by shifting the trust for compliance-driven configurations of cloud applications from the cloud application provider to the blockchain. The architecture was developed using design science research and evaluated using mixed-method semi-structured guided interviews. The results show that the proposed architecture can significantly reduce adoption risk due to compliance-driven cloud application configurations, shifting trust from the cloud provider to the blockchain. This book presents an innovative approach to address the challenge of adopting cloud applications, and enhancing trust and security for businesses.

NFTs cause excitement and skepticism. How much value can a token hold? What drives this value?To properly appreciate NFTs we must first understand what they actually are, how they work and in what contexts they are used.The Everything Token is an essential primer on NFTs (non-fungible tokens), explaining their use, purpose, and how businesses can create and exploit them to develop new product lines, building customer loyalty and increased revenues at the same time.Together the authors have spent much of the past few years embedded in NFT communities and helping launch NFT products. As self-described beta testers of this brand-new technology, they've seen its power first-hand and aim to educate others on the importance, uses and purpose of NFT and surrounding, ever-evolving technologies.Demystifying the complexities, two experts in NFTs show why we should take NFTs much more seriously than their reputation as fun digital art collectibles suggest. They have a wider variety of uses than one may realise.Gripping and accessible, this book provides a guide and an insight into what can often be a hard-to-grasp area of technology.

Datenbasierte Dienstleistungen wie die vorausschauende Wartung bieten große Chance für produzierende Unternehmen. Eine Vielzahl an Unternehmen haben entsprechende Industrie 4.0 Projekte angestoßen. Die nachhaltige Umsetzung bereitet jedoch größere Schwierigkeiten als erwartet. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird ein Leitfaden vorgestellt welcher aufzeigt, was für eine nachhaltige Umsetzung für datenbasierte Dienstleistungen zu beachten ist. Dieser Leitfaden umfasst drei übergeordnete Schritte: (1) Entwicklung datenbasierter Dienstleistungen, (2) Konzept für die Umsetzung datenbasierter Dienstleistung aus soziotechnischer Perspektive und (3) Umsetzung. Basierend auf den Erfahrungen eines von der Innosuisse finanzierten Projektes zeigen die Autoren auf, wo die größten Herausforderungen innerhalb der drei übergeordneten Schritte liegen, geben eine kurze Übersicht zur relevanten Literatur und beschreiben die Methoden, welche die Entwicklung und die nachhaltige Umsetzungdatenbasierter Dienstleistungen unterstützen. Dabei stützen sich die Autoren auf die Erkenntnisse der soziotechnischen Systemtheorie und zeigen auf, welche Maßnahmen aus Sicht Mensch, Technik und Organisation notwendig sind.

In diesem Buch wird thematisiert, wie die Virtualisierung von Teams den Umfang der informellen Kommunikation zwischen den Teammitgliedern beeinflusst und durch welche Faktoren dieser Einfluss moderiert wird. Dazu wurden nach einer Darstellung des Forschungsstands und Begründung der Forschungslücke aus der Theorie sieben Untersuchungshypothesen hergeleitet und diese anhand einer qualitativen Studie überprüft. Die Untersuchung ergab, dass der Umfang informeller Kommunikation bezogen auf die Häufigkeit der Interaktionen bei virtueller Zusammenarbeit erheblich abnimmt. Die Ergebnisse weisen auf eine diesen Einfluss moderierende Wirkung der Aufgabeninterdependenz, der Medienreichhaltigkeit, des mit der Kontaktaufnahme verbundenen Aufwands sowie des sozio-emotionalen Zustands des Teams hin. Auf Basis der Ergebnisse werden Implikationen für Forschung und Praxis abgeleitet.

Sustainable development is based on the idea that societies should advance without compromising their future development requirements. This book explores how the application of data analytics and digital technologies can ensure that development changes are executed on the basis of factual data and information. It addresses how innovations that rely on digital technologies can support sustainable development across all sectors and all social, economic, and environmental aspects and help us achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The book also highlights techniques, processes, models, tools, and practices used to achieve sustainable development through data analysis.The various topics covered in this book are critically evaluated, not only theoretically, but also from an application perspective. It will be of interest to researchers and students, especially those in the fields of applied data analytics, business intelligence and knowledge management.

This book develops insights of digitalization and the future of financial services to originate an innovative approach to financial field, in order to underpin research and practice in the wide area of digital finance. The aim of this book is to extend our understandings on how digitalization and the future of financial services can be helpful in different business circumstances in many cross-functional financial areas, such as financial markets, financial risk management, financial technologies, investment finance, etc. Thus, the book aims at addressing the relevance of digital finance for different players, highlighting differences in tools and processes as well as identifying innovative practices in financial digitalization. This can result in some novel theoretical and practical insights that can foster financial players, in order to proactively explore and exploit opportunities in financial digitalization and  offset financial risks and increase efficiency.

This book covers a broad range of topics related to digitalization. Specifically, it views digitalization across different organizational levels, such as the level of individuals, teams, processes, firms, and ecosystems. It includes a collection of recent research and reflections on the topic that helps to understand the technological foundations of digitalization and its impacts. It also reflects on the process of digitalization and how it changes established ways of working, collaborating, and coordinating.With this book, the editors and authors honor Professor Dr. Armin Heinzl for his enormous and ongoing contributions to information systems research, education, and practice.

In diesem Buch werden Texte als Datengrundlage für Analysen in drei empirischen Studien untersucht. Die erste Studie fokussiert auf die Heterogenität von Produktbewertungen und identifiziert fünf dynamische Archetypen für Konsumgüterbewertungen durch die Analyse von über 23 Millionen Bewertungen auf der Webseite eines Onlineversandhändlers. Die zweite Studie betrachtet Verbrauchervorschläge als wichtige Quelle für die Produktentwicklung und zeigt die Wirksamkeit eines kategorieunabhängigen Modells zur Extraktion von Vorschlägen aus Produktrezensionen sowie die positive Wirkung von Unternehmensanreizen durch kostenlose Produkte. In der dritten Studie wird ein Index für energiepolitische Unsicherheit basierend auf Textdaten aus deutschen Zeitungen und Plenarprotokollen des Deutschen Bundestags entwickelt und sowohl qualitativ als auch extern validiert. Die Arbeit zeigt die Bedeutung von Textdaten für verschiedene Anwendungsbereiche und leistet einen Beitrag zur Verbesserung der Analysemethoden in den untersuchten Feldern.

This open access book helps actors who are committed to change unlock true innovative potential for the common good in their organizations. Innovation and change processes are not linear. Hence, this book presents a novel way to manage complexity. The author introduces readers to a comprehensive change management framework, the Eoh-for-Good blueprint methodology. It presents the method and discusses how it can be used to support collaboration, overcome challenges and achieve lasting changes in organizations with a 360-degree approach combining top-down, middle-round and bottom-up collaborative perspectives.

Dieses Buch bietet eine Werkzeugkiste an Modellen und Methoden, die innovative Ideen erfolgreich machen. Innovation bringt Fortschritt, Wettbewerbsvorteile und steigert die Gewinne. Innovation bedeutet aber auch immer Unsicherheit und ruft Abwehrreaktionen hervor, weshalb starke Kommunikationskompetenzen gefragt sind, um interne und externe Hürden zu überwinden. Gelungene Innovationskommunikation schafft Aufmerksamkeit und baut notwendiges Wissen bei allen wichtigen Stakeholdern auf. Sie ist schnell, flexibel und pragmatisch, antizipiert Widerstände, adressiert mögliche negative Auswirkungen und baut Brücken in die Zukunft.Florian Hohenauers Buch richtet sich an Kommunikationsprofis und solche, die es werden wollen ¿ vor allem an all diejenigen, die nachhaltige Kommunikationsstrategien entwickeln möchten und bereit sind, für deren starkes Fundament etwas mehr Zeit zu investieren. Die renommierten Expert:innen Christine Dingler, Gudrun Herrmann, Dr.Kerstin Hoffmann, Sascha Pallenberg, Christiane Schulz und Gerrit Gericke sowie Danijel Vi¿evi¿ stellen in Gastbeiträgen und Interviews eigene strategische Ansätze vor. Praxisbeispiele illustrieren die Anwendung der vorgestellten Werkzeuge.

Dieses Buch stellt dar, wie Unternehmen verantwortungsvoll und zukunftsorientiert mit Krisensituationen umgehen können. Nach einer Einordnung der Ursachen und Einflussgrößen von Krisen und der Möglichkeiten zur Krisenerkennung und Krisenanalyse werden Ansätze zur Krisenbewältigung aufgezeigt und aus Management- und Mitarbeitersicht bewertet. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt auf Orientierungshilfen zur Verbesserung der Resilienz und zum Einsatz von Innovationen zur Krisenprävention, um auch die Chancen zu nutzen, die sich aus aktuellen Veränderungsprozessen ergeben. Mit Praxisbeispielen von Unternehmen und einleitenden Übersichtsfragen je Kapitel richtet es sich an alle Beteiligten in Krisenmanagement-Prozessen (z. B. Führungskräfte, Controller, Mitarbeitervertretungen, Berater) sowie an Studierende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften.

Die Digitalisierung nimmt maßgeblichen Einfluss auf die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Unternehmen und bietet gleichermaßen neue Möglichkeiten, mit Kunden in Kontakt zu treten. Künstliche Intelligenzen, wie z. B. Chatbots, sind heute allgegenwärtig und nehmen sowohl auf unser Arbeits- als auch auf unser privates Umfeld Einfluss. Während Chatbots im B2C-Bereich bereits vielfältig genutzt werden, steht der Einsatz von Chatbots im B2B-Sektor noch in den Anfängen und fand in bisherigen Studien kaum Beachtung. Das vorliegende Buch setzt an dieser Stelle an und untersucht auf Basis des Technologie-Akzeptanzmodells nach Davis, welche Determinanten Einfluss auf die Akzeptanz von Chatbots in der externen Kommunikation nehmen. Ziel ist es, die einzelnen Determinanten der Akzeptanz zu verstehen, um eine nachhaltige und erfolgreiche Nutzung sicherzustellen und somit die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Unternehmen zu gewährleisten.

The collection of essays compiled in this book is the conference proceedings fromthe first Cross-Atlantic Creativity Congress (CACC), which was held on April 4,2022, in Salzburg, Austria. With participants ranging from international scholars,business executives, artists, cultural managers, educators, policymakers, and more,the purpose of the CACC was to spark interest in how creativity can be learned,studied, measured, and predicted regarding the future of innovation capabilities and society's resilience. As the first of its kind, this event strove to make creativity moretangible through widespread conversations and synergies about understanding anddisseminating creativity from a scientific point of view.

Dieses Buch analysiert die Messewirtschaft unter dem Druck multipler Transformationen. Der Fokus auf Messen ist aufgrund der systemrelevanten Position dieser Branche gewählt, die gleichzeitig Repräsentanz der Wirtschaft ist und selber Wirtschaftsakteur. Die Vorgehensweise folgt den Prinzipien der Real World-Experimente durch Erfassung und Analyse der einschlägigen Äußerungen, Stellungnahmen und Einschätzungen von vielen Akteuren, die das Messewesen prägen und/oder seine Nutzer sind. Sie werden ergänzt durch fachliche Expertisen und Befunde von empirischen Studien. Das Ergebnis besteht aus mehr als 1000 dekonstruierten Einzelaussagen, die ihrer eigenen inhaltlichen Logik gemäß in Clustern systematisiert werden. Diese Rekonstruktion von Zusammenhängen der Befunde ortet vor allem die Problembereiche der Messewirtschaft und ihrer Kunden. So entsteht das Bild von ¿Collective Wisdom¿, vor allem im Hinblick auf zukunftsorientierte Lösungen der so identifizierten Herausforderungen und ihreröffentlichen Dokumentation. Das Buch bietet keine theoretischen Ratschläge und Modelle, sondern leitet direkt Diagnosen ab und liefert damit Lösungen für die Praxis.

As more of our lives are spent interacting digitally - sending and receiving payments, interacting on social media, using certified delivery, playing games online, and generally participating in the digital world - the fair exchange of our digital belongings becomes increasingly essential.This book delves into the theory of fair exchange, from the historic to the cutting-edge, and presents a unified framework for understanding fair exchange protocols. Every exchange starts with a handshake, which is followed by four additional operations: deposit; verification; synchronization; and release or restoration. The environments in which these operations take place determine the properties of the resulting protocol, and the characteristics of the items that can be exchanged.Existing protocols are examined through this framework, including escrow-based protocols, optimistic protocols, and gradual release protocols. A new family of fair exchange protocols is developed which make use of attestables, a novel interface for exfiltration-resistant computing. An attestable-based protocol called FEWD is also introduced and several variations are described which are suitable for the exchange of different classes of items.Finally, a number of special topics for fair exchange are introduced, including legal issues that can emerge in practical applications of fair exchange, a legal analysis of the basic operations of fair exchange, commercial applications of FEWD, and an analysis of additional risks including participant expectations and implementations of attestable-based protocols. We conclude with a collection of topics for future research in making fair exchange more ubiquitous in our lives for a fairer digital world.

This book examines the factors that shape the adoption and continuous usage of new technology by employees in organizations. While within an organization new technology adoption has evolved from its traditional role to a more strategic one, the appropriate adoption of new technology can only add value to organizations. Identifying the factors that influence this adoption process is crucial for successful adoption of new technology in organizations.The study presented in this book focuses on individual, organizational, social, and industrial factors and uses those to offer a comprehensive model of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application adoption. It contributes towards understanding employees' acceptance and adoption of enterprise-level technological innovation, allowing organizations to create a work environment conducive to individual implementation and acceptance of new technology. It appeals to researchers interested in studying the adoption of ERP and other innovative technologies in organizations.