SARS-CoV-2 massive testing: A window of opportunity to catch up with HCV elimination

Abstract The literature on the catching up of latecomer countries has pointed at windows of opportunity as a precondition for catching up. Previous research has however failed to illuminate the determining factors affecting the number of firms benefitting from windows of opportunity. The current article addresses this gap by combining insights on the nature of knowledge spillovers with sectoral characteristics. This perspective is applied empirically by analyzing the number of firms benefitting from a ‘green’ window of opportunity in the Chinese biomass power plant industry, specifically related to changes in the institutional framework conditions in the form of a feed-in tariff and specified targets for renewable energy. The article finds that while a single Chinese firm constituted the initial phase of the catch-up cycle, domestic knowledge spillovers allowed a larger number of Chinese firms to benefit from the window of opportunity in the later stage of the catch-up cycle. The article points at the importance of combining sectoral characteristics with the degree of domestic knowledge spillovers as key determinants for the number of firms profiting from windows of opportunity.

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SEIZING THE OPPORTUNITY OF PARADIGM SHIFTS: CATCH-UP OF CHINESE ICT FIRMS

International Journal of Innovation Management ◽

10.1142/s1363919610002556 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 14 (01) ◽

pp. 57-91 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

XIAOBO WU ◽

WEI ZHANG

Keyword(s):

New Technologies ◽

Window Of Opportunity ◽

Paradigm Shifts ◽

Firm Level ◽

The Past ◽

Research Findings ◽

Technology Market ◽

Catch Up ◽

Latecomer Firms ◽

Evolutionary Perspectives

The emergence of latecomer firms from East Asia in high-technology sectors is one of the most striking phenomena of world economy in the past decades. However, while most literature focuses on the catch-up of Korea and Taiwan, we know relatively little about the practices in China, especially the firm-level experiences. Based on in-depth case analyses of three Chinese ICT firms from exploratory and evolutionary perspectives, we attempt to locate the window of opportunity for Chinese ICT firms to catch up with forerunners and identify strategies they employed to seize the window of opportunity. Our research findings suggest that paradigm shifts provided these latecomers with an opportunity to penetrate the market and universal standards or new technologies from other domains serve as the window of opportunity for latecomers to surpass forerunners. This study also reveals that technology-market combination as well as other strategies including niche market proposition, service innovation, collaborative R&D and leveraging complementary technologies can be utilized as effective approaches to realize catch-up.

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Years Later, Preterm Children’s Brains Can Catch Up

ASHA Leader ◽

10.1044/leader.rib6.19102014.np ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 19 (10) ◽

Keyword(s):

Catch Up

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Window of opportunity

Therapeutische Umschau ◽

10.1024/0040-5930/a000814 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 73 (7) ◽

pp. 431-435

Author(s):

Markus G. Mohaupt

Keyword(s):

Kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen ◽

Window Of Opportunity ◽

Präventive Maßnahmen ◽

Kardiovaskuläre Komplikationen ◽

Sind Eine ◽

Hypertensive Schwangerschaftserkrankungen

Zusammenfassung. Kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen sind eine Hauptursache für Morbidität und Mortalität. Es ist vordringlich, diese Bedrohung zu minimieren. Hypertensive Schwangerschaften treten einerseits bevorzugt bei Frauen auf, die zu kardiovaskulären Erkrankungen tendieren, andererseits prädisponieren hypertensive Schwangerschaftserkrankungen, z.B. eine Präeklampsie, für spätere kardiovaskuläre Komplikationen. So sollten präventive Massnahmen schon früh nach der akuten Erkrankungen dieses Risiko reduzieren. Dazu gehört die Information bezüglich eines gesunden Lebensstil und zukünftige hausärztliche Kontrolluntersuchungen der kardiovaskulären Risikoindikatoren. In ähnlicher Weise sind Kinder mit einem erniedrigten Geburtsgewicht bzw. Mangelgeburtlichkeit für ein gegebenes Gestationsalter betroffen. Da diese Geburtskomplikationen häufiger bei hypertensiven Schwangerschaftserkrankungen auftreten, sollten den Müttern vergleichbare langfristige präventive Massnahmen getroffen werden. Zusammenfassend benötigen Mutter und häufig auch die Kinder aus hypertensiven Schwangerschaften geeignete kardiovaskuläre langfristige Präventionsmassnahmen. Frauen mit einem bislang nicht erkannten metabolischen bzw. Herz-Kreislauferkrankungsrisiko können damit einem sorgfältigen Follow-up zugeführt werden. Somit kann die hypertensive Schwangerschaft als Risikoindikator die Basis für eine frühzeitige Risikoprävention und ein gesundes Leben legen.

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How to speed up to be in time: Action-judgment dissociations in children and adults

Swiss Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1024/1421-0185.63.1.17 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 63 (1) ◽

pp. 17-29 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Friedrich Wilkening ◽

Claudia Martin

Keyword(s):

Rating Scale ◽

Constant Speed ◽

Linear Condition ◽

Speed Up ◽

Nonlinear Condition ◽

Speed Change ◽

Catch Up ◽

Normative Rule ◽

Judgment Condition ◽

Time Linear

Children 6 and 10 years of age and adults were asked how fast a toy car had to be to catch up with another car, the latter moving with a constant speed throughout. The speed change was required either after half of the time (linear condition) or half of the distance (nonlinear condition), and responses were given either on a rating scale (judgment condition) or by actually producing the motion (action condition). In the linear condition, the data patterns for both judgments and actions were in accordance with the normative rule at all ages. This was not true for the nonlinear condition, where children’s and adults’ judgment and also children’s action patterns were linear, and only adults’ action patterns were in line with the nonlinearity principle. Discussing the reasons for the misconceptions and for the action-judgment dissociations, a claim is made for a new view on the development of children’s concepts of time and speed.

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