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Innovation and Research: A Driving Force for Socio-Econo-Technological Development (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1277)
by Miguel Botto-Tobar Angela Díaz Cadena Marcelo Zambrano VizueteThis book presents the proceedings of the 1st International Congress on Innovation and Research – A Driving Force for Socio-Econo-Technological Development (CI3 2020). CI3 was held on June 18–19, 2020. It was organized by the Instituto Tecnológico Superior Rumiñahui and GDEON, in co-organization with Higher Institutes: Libertad, Bolivariano, Vida Nueva, Espíritu Santo, Sudamericano Loja, Central Técnico and sponsored by the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Perú), the Federal University of Goiás (Brazil) and HOSTOS—Community University of New York (USA). CI3 aims to promote the development of research activities in Higher Education Institutions and the relationship between the productive and scientific sector of Ecuador, supporting the fulfilment of the National Development Plan “Toda una vida 2017-2021”.
Innovation and Supply Chain Management: Relationship, Collaboration And Strategies (Contributions To Management Science Series)
by António Carrizo Moreira Ricardo A. Zimmermann Luís Miguel FerreiraThis book examines key issues, challenges, opportunities and trends in innovation processes and supply chain management. It proposes ways for organizations to improve their performance by developing business strategies, establishing business innovation activities, and aligning business and innovation activities among firms. Further, it showcases and analyzes the implementation of inter- and intra-organizational process improvement activities and the implementation of organizational innovation solutions to address new product and process-related collaborative relationships across the supply chain. The book is useful for researchers, academics and professionals, presenting some of the most advanced research, concepts, and case studies on the relationship between innovation and supply chain.
Innovation and Technological Advances for Sustainability: Proceedings of the International Conference on Innovation and Technological Advances for Sustainability, (ITAS 2023), March 01-03, 2023, Doha, Qatar
by Michael Phillips Rachid Benlamri Rehan Sadiq Salem Al-Naemi Aitazaz FarooqueThe proceedings publication of the International Conference on Innovation and Technological Advances for Sustainability (ITAS 2023) captures the essence of a dynamic international forum dedicated to advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs).This publication serves as a comprehensive repository of cutting-edge research, innovative strategies, and transformative tools discussed by a diverse community of participants, including researchers, academics, students, policymakers, industry leaders, and government officials. Encompassing local, regional, and international perspectives, the proceedings delve into critical global issues such as food security, environmental preservation, energy sustainability, economic resilience, and the role of digital technologies in fostering sustainable development.The publication distills the key messages of ITAS 2023, emphasizing the showcasing of national and international accomplishments, fostering global collaborations, exploring future challenges and opportunities, introducing state-of-the-art technologies, and providing policy recommendations for building a sustainable society. It acts as a bridge between research and practice, promoting the dissemination of knowledge that will contribute to the achievement of UN-SDGs.
Innovation and Technologies for the Digital Transformation of Education: European and Latin American Perspectives (Lecture Notes in Educational Technology)
by Francisco José García-Peñalvo María Luisa Sein-Echaluce Ángel Fidalgo-BlancoThis book provides a critical overview of the current use of learning technologies for educational innovation and examines global trends in educational innovation. It also shares experiences in educational innovation with learning technologies in Europe and Latin America. Despite increasing concerns about the use of technology in education, this book discusses how these can be addressed by focusing on fundamental principles such as personalization, collaboration, engagement, accessibility, and professional development.
Innovation and Technology in Sports: Proceedings of the International Conference on Innovation and Technology in Sports, (ICITS) 2022, Malaysia (Lecture Notes in Bioengineering)
by Mohd Hasnun Arif Hassan Anwar P. P. Abdul Majeed Syed Faris Syed Omar Alexander Casson Alan GodfreyThis book presents the proceedings of ICITS 2022 covering different tracks in the field of Sports Engineering and Technology, namely, Instrumentation, Materials, Data Analytics, Biomechanics, Simulation, Equipment Design and Performance Analysis, amongst others. This collection of articles deliberates the key challenges as well as technological innovations that facilitate the enhancement of sporting performance. The readers are expected to gain an insightful view on the current trends, issues, mitigating factors, technological innovations as well as proposed solutions.
Innovation and the Multinational Firm: Perspectives on Foreign Subsidiaries and Host Locations
by Alessandra PerriInnovation and the Multinational Firm.
Innovation durch Management des Informellen
by Markus Bürgermeister Fritz Böhle Stephanie PorschenIn diesem Buch zeigen die Autoren, wo die Erfolgspotenziale bei Organisationen liegen und wie sie mithilfe von Managementstrategien sowie Organisations-, Personal- und Kompetenzentwicklungskonzepten realisiert werden können. Die im Verbundprojekt KES-MI (www.kes-mi.de) erarbeiteten Instrumente zielen darauf ab, Unbestimmtheit und Offenheit als Charakteristika innovativer Arbeitsprozesse nicht nur zuzulassen, sondern diese Eigenschaften als Potenzial zur Steigerung der Innovationsfähigkeit zu nutzen und zu fördern.
Innovation for Environmentally-friendly Food Production and Food Safety in China (Sustainability Sciences in Asia and Africa)
by Nicholas Clarke Deliang Peng Jihong Liu ClarkeThe edited volume focuses on modern agro-technologies for achieving climate smart agriculture in China and meeting the UN sustainable development goals (especially SDGs 2, 13, and 15). It describes the technologies being adopted in China for meeting food security challenges, with the main focus being on soils. China is a large and diverse country, and what happens there has a global impact. In the past decades, China has achieved remarkable increases in food production, feeding nearly 20% of the world population with less than 10% of the arable land. This great achievement was mainly based on the intensive use of chemical inputs like fertilizers and pesticides, which in turn caused environmental pollution and food safety issues. China has fully realized this important issue and has adopted a “Zero Growth” policy to restrict the further increase in chemical fertilizers after 2020. Chinese scientists have developed regional optimum crop management practices and guidelines to increase crop yield and nutrient use efficiencies compared with current farming practices. Chinese agricultural soil is also currently in critical condition with severe environmental pollution. These agricultural practices need improvement to maintain sustainable food production with minimum environmental footprint. At present, the traditional mode of agricultural production in China is difficult to sustain. This book offers case studies and sustainable solutions for transforming agricultural sciences in China. The book is a useful reading material for stakeholders such as governments, policymakers, research institutions, and farmers.
Innovation in Agri-food Clusters
by Peter Phillips Jeremy Karwandy Camille Ryan Graeme WebbInnovation has moved through a range of revolutionary epochs, but there is no clear picture of how, or even if, innovation can be managed. This book explores the models, methods and metrics of innovation analysis in the context of a single centre: the Global Oilseeds Complex centred in Saskatoon, Canada. It is a single, coherent volume that outlines the theory and practices related to innovation, offering a critical assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches, backed up with empirical evidence.
Innovation in Agricultural Robotics for Precision Agriculture: A Roadmap for Integrating Robots in Precision Agriculture (Progress in Precision Agriculture)
by Avital BecharThis book provides a review of the state-of-the-art of agricultural robotics in different aspects of PA, the goals, and the gaps. The book introduces the area of Agricultural Robotics for Precision Agriculture (PA) specifically the conditions and limitations for implementing robots in this field and presents the concepts, principles, required abilities, components, characteristics and performance measures, conditions, and rules for robots in PA.
Innovation in Agriculture with IoT and AI (Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management)
by Arturo Realyvásquez Vargas Suchismita Satapathy Debesh MishraThis book examines different innovations in worldwide agricultural-systems including the applications of artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT) and features of machine learning (ML) for the benefits of the farm-community. Specifically, it examines the use of agricultural equipment and IoT to reduce physical stress; innovative equipment that measure and reduce mental work load; and innovative techniques to help with employee safety. Featuring case studies and future implications, this book is an excellent guide for academics and researchers in the agri-sector.
Innovation in Clusters
by Oleg Kozyrev Eduard Babkin Nataliya KlimovaThis book aims to bind together latest theories on creation of innovative clusters and operating modalities, empirical analysis, and several new formal models describing cluster formation and dynamics. Another objective of the book is the analysis of the role of the innovative activities on the economic performances of the firm during the crisis, focusing the attention on the complementarities existing among the innovative dimensions, hypothesizing a positive role of integrated innovative strategies in increasing the firm resilience to the challenges brought by the economic crisis. The part of empirical analysis contains a comprehensive survey of different international legislation sources useful for deep studies of influential factors and peculiarities. In this book international statistical reports on economic activity and business cases of successful application of clusters model are described for Western Europe and BRIC. This book also presents authors findings in the domain of mathematical and simulation modeling of the major elements of cluster and innovation management.
Innovation in Clusters: Science-Industry Relationships in the Face of Forced Advancement
by Estelle VallierForged at the heart of international political bodies by expert researchers, the innovation cluster concept has been incorporated into most public policies in industrialized countries. Based largely on the ideas behind the success of Silicon Valley, several imitative attempts have been made to geographically group laboratories, companies and training in particular fields in order to generate “synergies” between science and industry. In its first part, Innovation in Clusters analyzes the infatuation with the system of clusters that is integral to innovative policies by analyzing its socio historical context, its revival in management and its worldwide expansion, looking at a French example at a local level. In its second part, the book explores a specialized biotechnology cluster dating back to the end of the 1990s. The sociological survey conducted twenty years later sheds a different light on the dynamics and relationships between laboratories and companies, contradicting the commonly held belief that innovation is made possible by geographical proximity.
Innovation in Construction: A Practical Guide to Transforming the Construction Industry
by John Roberts Eujin Pei Seyed Hamidreza Ghaffar Paul MullettThis book tackles the complex topic of implementing innovation and the successful application of advanced technology in the construction industry. It provides a practical guide for the transformation of the industry by detailing appropriate and effective implementation methods, required skill sets and structural changes necessary to facilitate the practical and innovative application of technology. The construction industry is behind other industries in its level of innovation and adoption of technology, and is of critical importance to many of today’s global challenges, such as climate change, global warming and resource scarcity. There is therefore a need for smarter and more efficient ways of managing available resources. This book elaborates on how the innovative application of technology could offer hope for the construction industry in it’s imperative to rise to current and future global challenges. It includes the real-world case studies of innovative projects that go beyond the current state-of-the-art academic research, and have improved productivity, quality and performance in the construction sector.This book provides readers from both industrial and academic backgrounds with a comprehensive guide on transforming the construction industry with the efficient and effective implementation of technologies and modern methods of construction.
Innovation in Construction: An International Review of Public Policies
by André Manseau George SeadenHow can innovation in the construction industry be strengthened? What instruments and approaches are being used by governments to promote it? What works and under what circumstances? These key questions have profound implications. This book presents a framework for the analysis of innovation models and systems in construction and an international comparison of these systems, with a focus on their application in practical policy development.
Innovation in Design, Communication and Engineering: Proceedings of the 2014 3rd International Conference on Innovation, Communication and Engineering (ICICE 2014), Guiyang, Guizhou, P.R. China, October 17-22, 2014
by Stephen D. Prior Teen-Hang Meen Artde Donald Kin-Tak LamThis volume represents the proceedings of the 2014 3rd International Conference on Innovation, Communication and Engineering (ICICE 2014). This conference was held in Guiyang, Guizhou, P.R. China, October 17-22, 2014. The conference provided a unified communication platform for researchers in a wide range of fields from information technology,
Innovation in Design, Communication and Engineering: Proceedings of the 8th Asian Conference on Innovation, Communication and Engineering (ACICE 2019), October 25-30, 2019, Zhengzhou, P.R. China (Smart Science, Design & Technology)
by Stephen D. Prior Artde Donald Kin-Tak Lam Siu-Tsen Shen Sheng-Joue Young Liang-Wen JiThis volume represents the proceedings of the 8th Asian Conference on Innovation, Communication and Engineering (ACICE 2019), which was held in P.R. China, October 25-30, 2019. The conference aimed to provide an integrated communication platform for researchers in a wide range of fields including information technology, communication science, applied mathematics, computer science, advanced material science, and engineering. The conference and resulting proceedings aim to enhance interdisciplinary collaborations between science and engineering technologists in academia and industry within this unique international network.
Innovation in Electric Arc Furnaces
by Yuri N. Toulouevski Ilyaz Y. ZinurovElectric Arc Furnaces are being greatly improved at a fast pace. This book equips a reader with knowledge necessary for critical analysis of these innovations and helps to select the most effective ones and for their successful implementation. The book also covers general issues related to history of development, current state and prospects of steelmaking in Electric Arc Furnaces. Therefore, it can be useful for everybody who studies metallurgy, including students of colleges and universities. The modern concepts of mechanisms of Arc Furnace processes are presented by numerous journal articles and conference proceedings. These materials are difficult of access for a practicing engineer or metallurgist. The knowledge of general simplified yet correct in principle concepts is sufficient for decision-making. These concepts are discussed in the book at the level sufficient to solve practical problems: To help readers lacking knowledge required in the field of heat transfer as well as hydro-gas dynamics, it contains several chapters which provide the required minimum of information in these fields of science. In order to better assess different innovations, the book describes experience of the application of similar innovations in open-hearth furnaces and oxygen converters. Some promising ideas on key issues regarding intensification of the heat, which are of interest for developers of new processes and equipment for Electric Arc Furnaces, are also the concern of the book It should be noted, that carrying out the simplified calculations as distinct from using "off the shelf" programs greatly promotes comprehensive understanding of physical basics of processes and effects produced by various factors. This book gives numerous examples of such calculations performed by means of simplified methods and formulas. Getting familiar with material in this book will allow the reader to perform required calculations on his / her own without any difficulties.
Innovation in Electrical Power Engineering, Communication, and Computing Technology: Proceedings of IEPCCT 2019 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #630)
by Janmenjoy Nayak Bighnaraj Naik Danilo Pelusi Renu Sharma Manohar MishraThis book features selected high-quality papers from the International Conference on Innovation in Electrical Power Engineering, Communication, and Computing Technology (IEPCCT 2019), held at Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, India, on 13–14 December 2019. Presenting innovations in power, communication, and computing, it covers topics such as mini, micro, smart and future power grids; power system economics; energy storage systems; intelligent control; power converters; improving power quality; signal processing; sensors and actuators; image/video processing; high-performance data mining algorithms; advances in deep learning; and optimization methods.
Innovation in Electrical Power Engineering, Communication, and Computing Technology: Proceedings of Second IEPCCT 2021 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #814)
by Janmenjoy Nayak Bighnaraj Naik Renu Sharma Manohar Mishra Akshay Kumar RathoreThis book features selected high-quality papers from the Second International Conference on Innovation in Electrical Power Engineering, Communication, and Computing Technology (IEPCCT 2021), held at Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, India, on 24–26 September 2021. Presenting innovations in power, communication, and computing, it covers topics such as mini, micro, smart and future power grids; power system economics; energy storage systems; intelligent control; power converters; improving power quality; signal processing; sensors and actuators; image/video processing; high-performance data mining algorithms; advances in deep learning; and optimization methods.
Innovation in Food Engineering: New Techniques and Products (Contemporary Food Engineering)
by Claudio P. Ribeiro Maria Laura PassosConsumer-driven products have kept the food industry at the forefront of technological innovations. For example, the redefinition of the once accepted compromise between convenience and quality is just one of the current issues driving the development of new products. An overview of a range of solutions for these challenges, Innovation in Food Engi
Innovation in Forestry: Territorial and Value Chain Relationships
by Gerhard Weiss Pekka Ollonqvist Bill Slee Davide PettenellaInnovation is increasingly recognized as a key factor in environmental protection and balanced sustainable development within the forestry sector. This volume provides a comprehensive theoretical foundation for the analysis of innovation processes and policies in a traditional, rural sector as well as presenting empirical analyses of innovation processes from major innovation areas. Territorial services of the forest sector are examined, including various types of forest ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration or recreation and wood value chains, including timber frame construction and bioenergy.
Innovation in Healthtech: A Roadmap for Empowering Healthcare (Advancing Science and Engineering through Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Mathematical Modeling)
by Rakesh Kumar Meenu GuptaSophisticated data analysis is revolutionizing healthcare decision- making, personalized treatments, and operational efficiency. Innovations in HealthTech covers this impact and highlights the significance of robust security measures in safeguarding sensitive medical data and ensuring patient confidentiality. The book provides insights into the development, implementation, and future potential of telemedicine infrastructure. Explores the role of wearable technology in promoting patient engagement and wellness and addressing the critical issue of data security. Offers practical technical insights that provide a deeper understanding of the real-world applications and challenges in the healthcare technology landscape. Examines the role of telehealth and remote monitoring in healthcare accessibility, and use of artificial intelligence in augmenting clinical decision-making processes. Discusses frameworks and guidelines that enable different health technologies and systems to work together seamlessly, ensuring efficient data exchange and improved patient care. Presents the essential measures and strategies in place to protect sensitive healthcare data, ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of information. The text is primarily written for senior undergraduates, graduate students, and academic researchers in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics and communications engineering, computer engineering, and biomedical engineering.
Innovation in Healthy and Functional Foods
by Debasis Bagchi Shantanu Das Dilip Ghosh R. B. SmartaThe focus of food science and technology has shifted from previous goals of improving food safety and enhancing food taste toward providing healthy and functional foods. Today's consumers desire foods that go beyond basic nutrition-foods capable of promoting better health, or even playing a disease-prevention role. To meet this need for innovation,
Innovation in INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
by Telecommunications Board Computer ScienceA report on the Innovation in Information Technology