scholarly journals INNOVATIVE POTENTIAL, INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL AND ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY OF UNIVERSITIES IN ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEMS

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
Sergiy Porev ◽  
Olena Kolomytseva
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Dominant Type ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
University Scientists ◽  
Realized Absorptive Capacity

The article is devoted to the problem of methods and means development of knowledge exchange management between universities and innovative firms in entrepreneurial ecosystems. It is noted that the indicators of attracting business funds for research and development in higher education in Ukraine, compared to other countries, indicate a dissonance in the economic and cognitive dimension between innovative entrepreneurship and research groups of universities. Our previous research shows that, unlike leading countries, the formation of entrepreneurial ecosystems in Ukraine should be not only about targeted support for high-growth firms, but also about ensuring effective bilateral knowledge exchange of universities with all interested firms and startups. The concept of absorptive capacity of individuals and organizations, the concept of innovation potential, intellectual capital, human capital and the relationship between them are considered. It is shown that the usefulness of the absorptive capacity concept is that it contributes to the formation of methods and means to increase the efficiency of knowledge exchange in entrepreneurial ecosystems with the participation of universities. It is substantiated that the university has a more complex range of absorptive abilities of employees than organizations with a strictly dominant type of activity and field of knowledge used. It is proved that the absorptive capacity of employees in universities should be considered in the dimensions of teaching, research and development, training and start-up innovative entrepreneurship, as well as taken into account the diversity of fields and types of knowledge used. Our addition to the concept of absorptive capacity with the thesis on the limitations of cognitive communication between persons with different cognitive orientations is original. One of the main difficulties in the knowledge exchange between university scientists and employees of companies is that they deal with different types of knowledge and carry out significantly different activities. In our previous studies, this was associated with cognitive gaps that occur when transferring the mental knowledge of subjects to material media in the form of information, and then - its awareness by individuals who have experience other than the authors. The phenomena that cause them are an important factor in the problems of cognitive exchange of university scientists with entrepreneurs. Based on the wide range of knowledge, activities and absorptive capacities of individuals and communities in university, it is proposed to differentiate between measures to ensure and stimulate educational, research and innovative entrepreneurial activities in order to adequately support them. In our opinion, the indicators that indirectly represent the realized absorptive capacity include those results that are traditional for the relevant categories of employees in universities. The absorptive capacity of teachers, in particular, is realized in the content of those courses that they personally form, while the main achievement of the researcher is new scientific or related knowledge. Criteria and indicators of the realized absorptive capacity can be specified, and it will be a subject of our further researches.

Intellectual capital and business performance: the role of dimensions of absorptive capacity

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Saad Ahmed ◽  
Jia Guozhu ◽  
Shujaat Mubarik ◽  
Mumtaz Khan ◽  
Essa Khan
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Realized Absorptive Capacity

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the mediating role of potential and realized absorptive capacity in intellectual capital (IC) and business performance. It also investigates the direct impact of the components of IC on business performance. Design/methodology/approach Partial least square-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to assess the effect of IC dimensions on performance and to analyze the mediating role of absorptive capacity in this relationship. Data were collected from 192 managers using a survey questionnaire with Likert scale items. Findings The findings of the study show that potential absorptive capacity does not intervene in the relationship between the components of IC and those of business performance. However, realized absorptive capacity, measured as the transformation and exploitation of knowledge, played a positive mediating role in the relationship between the dimensions of IC and those of business performance. Social capital was also noted as a weak predictor of business performance, while human capital and organizational capital had a profound positive influence. Originality/value This study contributes to the literature on IC by examining the role of realized and potential absorptive capacity in the relationship between IC components and firm performance. This research also helps practitioners recognize the importance of transformation and the exploitation of knowledge for business performance.

scholarly journals CHALLENGES OF KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE MANAGEMENT FOR UNIVERSITY SCIENTISTS IN ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
Sergiy Porev ◽  
Olena Kolomytseva
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Mental Content ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Exchange Management ◽  
University Scientists

The article is devoted to the issues of knowledge exchange management between university scientists and employees of small firms in entrepreneurial ecosystems. It is confirmed that in recent decades the role of the third component of the university's mission, which is associated with the exchange of knowledge, has increased, and this changes requirements for joint creation of a cognitive product with external stakeholders, including entrepreneurship.It has been shown that the challenges for university teachers in increasing knowledge exchange are related to strengthening the component of applied research and development related to specific business projects. As a part of the exchange of knowledge, university employees must not just transfer their work to entrepreneurship, but to achieve its assimilation by employees of companies. In the same way, university scientists are faced with the task of more meaningfully studying and processing knowledge on the subject of activities of companies. This approach to joint applied research and development is a challenge for teachers, who, in addition, within education must create a pedagogically developed content knowledge of the subjects, and within the scientific component of the university's mission – to perform basic research. It is shown that three types of knowledge that correspond to modern ideas about the mission of universities are related but different, which requires appropriate changes in their management.The problematic aspects of assimilation and dissemination of explicit and implicit or tacit knowledge within the joint groups of university scientists and employees of small firms are considered. It is substantiated that in the exchange of the results of cognition with the use of material carriers, what is transmitted loses the property of knowledge to be the justified belief, because it goes beyond the mental content of the author's mind. It is proved that on the way of knowledge exchange there are not only organizational and methodological barriers, but also cognitive-communicative gaps. It is established that the socialization and externalization of knowledge in management systems has a cognitive-communicative basis to fail the desired completeness. Cooperation of different activities and knowledge is potentially a means of non-standard and useful solutions in innovative entrepreneurship. But such cooperation and co-production of knowledge is a source for incompleteness of understanding the others, which counteracts the common achievements and requires the attention of managers.

scholarly journals Empirical analysis of intellectual capital, potential absorptive capacity, realized absorptive capacity and cultural intelligence on innovation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1399-1406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wisnu Yuwono
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Cultural Intelligence ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Significant Positive Effect ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Travel Agencies ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Realized Absorptive Capacity

The purpose of this research is to reveal the influence of intellectual capital, potential absorptive capacity, realized absorptive capacity, and cultural intelligence on innovation in the tourism sector in Batam City. Batam has geopolitical and geographic advantages, located in the Malacca Strait, adjacent to and directly facing Singapore and Malaysia. It has not been optimal in exploring the potential for innovation in the tourism sector. Thus, this sector does not yet have a significant contribution to economic development. The research was conducted on the management of companies that are members of the Association of the Indonesian Tours and Travel Agencies in Batam City, totaling 54 people. By using the analysis of Structural Equation Model (SEM) with SmartPLS version 3.0, the results show that 1) intellectual capital has no effect on innovation; 2) potential absorptive capacity has no effect on innovation; 3) Realized absorptive capacity has a significant positive effect on innovation, and 4) Cultural Intelligence has a significant positive effect on innovation. The results of this study will give some insight to company managers in the tourism sector for developing innovation to maintain business continuity.

scholarly journals Broad Search, Deep Search, and the Absorptive Capacity Performance of Family and Nonfamily Firm R&D

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasper Brinkerink
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Capacity Performance ◽  
Innovation Outcomes ◽  
Realized Absorptive Capacity

This study investigates how family and nonfamily firms learn. Specifically, it asks whether family influence fosters or hinders the transformation of the potential absorptive capacity augmented by research and development (R&D) into the realized absorptive capacity embodied by innovation outcomes. The conceptual model posits that family influence will enhance the absorptive capacity performance of R&D regarding exploitative innovations that tend to result from deep external search yet diminish the absorptive capacity performance of R&D regarding exploratory innovations that tend to result from broad external search. Regression analyses using a sample of 346 Dutch manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises largely support the hypothesized model.

scholarly journals Cochlear Implant Research and Development in the Twenty-first Century: A Critical Update

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 481-508
Author(s):  
Robert P. Carlyon ◽  
Tobias Goehring
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Speech Processing ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Directional Microphones ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Processing Algorithms ◽  
Improve Patient

AbstractCochlear implants (CIs) are the world’s most successful sensory prosthesis and have been the subject of intense research and development in recent decades. We critically review the progress in CI research, and its success in improving patient outcomes, from the turn of the century to the present day. The review focuses on the processing, stimulation, and audiological methods that have been used to try to improve speech perception by human CI listeners, and on fundamental new insights in the response of the auditory system to electrical stimulation. The introduction of directional microphones and of new noise reduction and pre-processing algorithms has produced robust and sometimes substantial improvements. Novel speech-processing algorithms, the use of current-focusing methods, and individualised (patient-by-patient) deactivation of subsets of electrodes have produced more modest improvements. We argue that incremental advances have and will continue to be made, that collectively these may substantially improve patient outcomes, but that the modest size of each individual advance will require greater attention to experimental design and power. We also briefly discuss the potential and limitations of promising technologies that are currently being developed in animal models, and suggest strategies for researchers to collectively maximise the potential of CIs to improve hearing in a wide range of listening situations.

scholarly journals Mini-review: antibody therapeutics targeting G protein-coupled receptors and ion channels

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-264
Author(s):  
Catherine J Hutchings
Keyword(s):  
Ion Channels ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Small Molecules ◽  
G Protein ◽  
Clinical Studies ◽  
G Protein Coupled Receptors ◽  
Protein Targets ◽  
Antibody Therapeutics ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
G Protein Coupled

Abstract Antibodies are now well established as therapeutics with many additional advantages over small molecules and peptides relative to their selectivity, bioavailability, half-life and effector function. Major classes of membrane-associated protein targets include G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and ion channels that are linked to a wide range of disease indications across all therapeutic areas. This mini-review summarizes the antibody target landscape for both GPCRs and ion channels as well as current progress in the respective research and development pipelines with some example case studies highlighted from clinical studies, including those being evaluated for the treatment of symptoms in COVID-19 infection.

scholarly journals Universities’ Intellectual Capital Report: The Formation Concept, Analytical Capabilities under Stakeholders Management Decisions-Making

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 40-54
Author(s):  
A. A. Vakhrushina ◽  
M. A. Vakhrushina
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Accounting Systems ◽  
Management Accounting Systems ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Russian Universities

The modern trends in the socio-economic life, educational and research spheres lead to the increased attention of universities to the more effective management of available resources, as well as high-quality and relevant disclosure of information in their public reporting to the interested parties. Under the circumstances, the intellectual capital (IC) components become key objects in the management accounting systems, and the IC report may become one of the main engines to achieve the transparent information which can raise the interest of stakeholders. The analysis of this practice clarified the discussion points and helped to develop conceptual guidelines for the preparation of the IC report for Russian universities. There have been used the following methods to solve the problem, such as quantitative-systematic analysis, semantic grouping of results and logical relationships. The developed methodology for analyzing the report on IC universities has a certain practical importance. Such methodology also includes methods of financial and management analysis. The formulated recommendations are intended for a wide range of stakeholders, the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and higher education institutions.

scholarly journals Assessment of the research component used to provide infrastructure facilities for enhancing innovative development in Ukraine

2018 ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Heorhii Khvichiia-Duve
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Building Research ◽  
Infrastructural Development ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

The study addresses the research component used to provide infrastructure facilities for enhancing innovative development in Ukraine. More specifically, the article considers the main infrastructure facilities, which accelerate innovative development. The paper also evaluates preconditions for building research capacity in the country and its funding by structuring expenditures on research and development by sources of funding. The issues of creating intellectual capital are put forward and examined. The article introduces a number of factors, which hinder providing investment support for the infrastructural development of the economy. Finally, the paper formulates a set of measure to be taken in order to integrate the innovative infrastructure of the national economy into the world economic system.

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