scholarly journals The ETH Innovation & Entrepreneurship Lab: Supporting Young Entrepreneurs

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (10) ◽  
pp. 768-770
Author(s):  
Tomas Brenner
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Innovative Technologies ◽  
Successful Launch ◽  
The Right ◽  
Young Entrepreneurs

For the successful launch and sustainable growth of innovative technologies into business concepts, extensive knowledge and a wide variety of tools are needed. The ETH ieLab provides exactly the right framework and support for this.

scholarly journals Innovative Technologies of Green Economy in Agriculture

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 90-100
Author(s):  
M. S. Oborin
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Production Cycle ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Innovative Technologies ◽  
Field Development ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Complex Development ◽  
Environmental Measures

The subject of the research is “green” economy technology utilized in agriculture, as well as trends and prospect of their introduction in order to ensure sustainable development of the field. Acceleration in the rates of agriculture and agro industrial complex development is determined by the effectiveness of progressive industrial technologies adaptation, as well as by the forming of material and technical basis of machinery and equipment contributing to improvement and optimization of labour conditions, by stimulation of the processes of investing and innovating at every enterprise. Stable agriculture performance greatly influence food independence, economic self-dependency of the country regions, sustainable growth of the territories specializing in agriculture. Innovative technologies present a key factor for competitiveness and the field development as they facilitate cost reduction, increase in efficiency, they also stimulate the demand for the produce of well-known Russian companies’ brands. The security of production and administrative decisions influence the mentioned advantages as they facilitate environmental measures maintenance, population health and the quality of manufactured food. The purposes of the work is detection of perspective directions of agricultural development basing on the innovative “green” economy technology, and their adaptation in production cycle effectiveness assessment. The research methods are formal logical, analysis of the regional experience in utilization of secure technologies in agriculture, social economic processes modeling. It is concluded that adaptation of innovative technologies of “green” economy in agriculture must be executed on basis of state support mechanisms including attracting funds through “green” bonds, admittance to participating in special actions and R&D. 

scholarly journals Health Software Product or Software as Medical Device

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 644-647
Author(s):  
Tabea Lukas ◽  
Keywan Sohrabi ◽  
Volker Gross ◽  
Michael Scholtes
Keyword(s):  
Medical Device ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Medical Product ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Regulatory Affairs ◽  
The Right ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Medical Device Regulation ◽  
Young Entrepreneurs

Abstract The number of software products in the field of health and medicine increases excessively. Self-tracking, fitness, health advice, dose calculation, and analysis of physiological data - apps are popular and commonly used. Some of the products are affected by the medical device regulation, consciously or unconsciously. For young entrepreneurs, it is difficult to recognize and understand the distinction between software as medical product and health software products. A product-related orientation guide could help start-ups to understand the difference and to find the right strategy for placing their product on the market. All relevant information were collected and analyzed. Input came from a systematic literature research, an evaluation of the CHARISMHA study and a consideration of the medical device regulation as well as the relevant standards (e.g. IEC 62304 and IEC 82304). The guide was adapted to the particular situation of start-ups and microenterprises, inter alia having regard to missing regulatory affairs competences. A product-related orientation guide for young entrepreneurs was developed, which helps to identify whether products are affected by the medical device regulation or not. The guide uses a few simple questions, and it allows the entrepreneurs to estimate the related effort. Furthermore, it provides an overview of relevant standards and needed competences for the chosen path. The guide brings certainty and can help young entrepreneurs to identify the upcoming workload at an early stage. Due to the decision tree concept, it is easy to adapt the product-related strategy and see the consequences. This might help entrepreneurs to find the right strategy for placing their product on the market. Nevertheless, field testing with the guide is necessary to validate its benefit.

scholarly journals The Physical Internet: A means towards achieving global logistics sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 815-829
Author(s):  
Taofeeq D. Moshood ◽  
Shahryar Sorooshian
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Distribution Networks ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Minimal Models ◽  
Society Business ◽  
Market Structures ◽  
Global Logistics ◽  
Physical Internet ◽  
The Right

Abstract The supply chains that make up the distribution networks are becoming more diverse as companies respond to global markets’ rigorous demands. Today, the immediate need for sustainable growth is to design, manufacture, and deliver the right product to experience drastic improvements in the right place, at the right price, and at the right time. As a massively distributed, integrated logistics infrastructure, a new “Physical Internet” (PI) model has been implemented to make the existing logistics structures more scalable and sustainable. This article discusses resource control in the PI’s modern supply chain and logistics systems while addressing the potential disruptions between the hubs during the transfer of goods. This article attempts to establish how companies will benefit from introducing the PI to optimise their strategic supply chain. This article used ATLAS.ti 9 automated tool to save, classify, and evaluate the data for this analysis to review the literature systematically. For PI, an increasing number of plans, blueprints, and requirements have been established. Still, minimal models are currently developed, explaining how the transformation from the strengthened logistics business models to the PI could occur. There is a lack of awareness of the necessary market structures that can include crucial players and allow the PI model to be embraced. Therefore, this research brings a new viewpoint on logistic operations through the PI idea, guarantees the present situation’s view, and presents a solution to the society–business–technology framework.

Vertical Brand Extension at Vinamilk, Vietnam

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (02) ◽  
pp. 331-350
Author(s):  
Quang Tri Nguyen ◽  
Winai Wongsurawat ◽  
Rian Beise-Zee
Keyword(s):  
Brand Extension ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Product Portfolio ◽  
Milk Product ◽  
Marketing Communication ◽  
Fresh Milk ◽  
Successful Launch ◽  
Liquid Milk ◽  
The Right

This case study illustrates the role of marketing instruments on the success of a vertical brand extension executed by a leading dairy company in Vietnam — Vinamilk. In 2011, the company launched a fortified liquid milk line as a step-down vertical brand extension from its previous and more premium line — 100% fresh milk. The key issue in the study is to understand how Vinamilk used marketing communication and distancing techniques (or differentiation tactics) to influence the performance of the vertical brand extension. The case findings show that despite quite serious cannibalization on the core brand, the vertical brand extension at Vinamilk was deemed a successful launch. The success was attributable to marketing communication that was rooted in profound consumer understanding — the right product offered to the right target at the right price supported with heavy consumer pull and trade push marketing. Vinamilk’s strong umbrella brand and wide distribution network also contributed to the successful launch. The most serious challenge was cannibalization on the previous premium product line — Vinamilk 100% fresh milk. As Vietnamese consumers grew wealthier and more sophisticated, non-reconstituted, fresh milk would likely become the biggest seller in the future, a sector Vinamilk could not afford to lose. Competition in this premium market was already heating up, requiring the company to strengthen this product line. For longer term strategy, Vinamilk had been forced to revisit its liquid milk product portfolio. A more clearly defined role for each product line along with effective differentiation would be required.

scholarly journals La dimensione culturale-identitaria di paesaggio Uno sguardo giuridico comparato

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caterina Cerrina Feroni
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Right

The essay investigates the connection between the cultural dimension of landscape and the judicial evolution of this topic within some European judicial systems. The comparative approach underlies differences both in terms of landscape discipline and in evaluation of cultural aspects related with national identity, with some similarities among Neolatin and German meanings. In this diversified context the relevant international legislation constitutes a benchmark, in particular thanks to the provisions of the European Landscape Convention which defines the landscape focus on the perceptions of the populations who live it. More ambiguous are the provisions of the Faro Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society, although the ratification marks the recognition of cultural heritage as a factor for sustainable growth, human development and quality of life by introducing the “right to cultural heritage”.

scholarly journals Azerbaijan Education System: Transition from Traditional to Modern Teaching and Learning Strategies. A Review of Literature

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samira Mammadova ◽  
Aygun Musayeva ◽  
Elchin Jafarov ◽  
Bakhtiyar Badalov
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Education System ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Innovative Technologies ◽  
High Quality Education ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Innovation In Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning Strategies ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

Education plays important role in the society and in the everyday lives of plenty of people. Education influences people in different ways, and the significance of high quality education is indisputable. Particularly, innovation in education is a light that shows the humankind the right direction to surge. The advancement of the society directly dependent on the development of education and its quality. The fact is that, technological progress and innovative technologies application in education system bring new tools for struggling with complicated obligations in education systems. People get opportunities to express themselves, communicate and interact with other peoples in local, national and global context by using innovative technologies in education. The main purpose of study is to examine traditional and modern, innovative methods of teaching and learning, to explore the impact of these methods on educational environment and specifically discuss different teaching and learning methods regarding Azerbaijan education system.

Health care reform 2009–2010: a neurosurgeon's perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 113 (6) ◽  
pp. 1127-1132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Troy M. Tippett
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Reform ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Medical Liability ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Right To Health Care ◽  
Important Principle ◽  
Reform Legislation ◽  
The Right

Organized neurosurgery through its Washington Committee developed a number of principles against which all health care reform legislation was measured, and none of the bills were acceptable. The American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons (AANS/CNS) worked through multiple venues to modify or reject the legislation. In the author's view, the American Medical Association (AMA) supported the bills because its board of trustees was too focused on eliminating the sustainable growth rate, or SGR. Physicians failed to shape the health care debate. The leadership of many medical organizations was not prepared for the debate. Many had no experience in this arena and thus were too willing to let lobbyists dictate their position. In the future there are 3 things organized neurosurgery must do: be prepared, never give in, and stick with their principles. Organized neurosurgery must be prepared by developing leaders that have experience in the full spectrum of organized medicine. Neurosurgeons must not count on others, and because the specialty is small all must be involved. Neurosurgeons must never give in. Organized neurosurgery started 2009 with little support for its positions but by the end of the debate had convinced many other organizations, representing almost 500,000 physicians, to take their position. From an organizational point of view, neurosurgeons should now do 3 things: 1) reform or reject the AMA; 2) develop a real surgical coalition; and 3) change the current political environment. Neurosurgeons must also follow their principles. In the author's opinion the most important principles are: health care as a responsibility, medical liability reform, and the right to privately contract. In the United Kingdom and Germany, where health care is considered a right rather than a responsibility, bureaucratic entities determine whether you have the right to health care just as the Independent Payment Advisory Board, established under the new health care reform law in the US, will soon limit by rationing of health care under the guise of cutting costs. If, however, health care is a responsibility not a right, the obligation is shifted from society to the individual. It puts the patient and the doctor in charge. It is a far better mechanism to control costs and preserve quality without rationing. It becomes our obligation to have health care, and it puts us in charge of our destiny. Proven liability reform was not included in the health care legislation despite the fact that up to $200 billion per year is spent on defensive medicine. Another and possibly the most important principle ignored in the legislation is the right for a patient and his/her physician to privately contract under Medicare without penalty.

scholarly journals ICT Driven Decision Support & Information Dissemination (DSID): A Comprehensive Technical Appraisal of DSID Systems in Indian Agriculture

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 455-469
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
System Development ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
System Response ◽  
System Quality ◽  
The Right ◽  
Research Initiatives

Sustainable growth of the agricultural production system demands the availability of right technical inputs about the weather, crop, land, fertilizers, and irrigation at the right time. To disseminate useful information to farmers in an effective and timely manner, many research initiatives have been undertaken by various government and private agencies’ in India to develop decision support and information dissemination (DSID) systems. This paper appraises fifteen number of such systems that are developed in India in the last decade. The appraisal discusses the (i) user information (type of users, participation method and level of skill level), (ii) system information (developing agency, system type, interface, supported application domain and outcome), (iii) system design specification (input/output, data collection method, architecture, user connectivity means), (iv) system development technologies (development technologies and tools), (v) system response (support delivery method, recommendation mechanism, response time) and, (vi) system services (user response, social and economic benefits). Considering all the above mentioned factors, summary sheets have been prepared and analyzed on the basis of normalized weights assigned to each aspect. As a result of analysis, criteria/method for evaluation of system quality (on the basis of support, satisfaction and perceived usefulness) has been formulated. Furthermore, the paper also investigates various challenges that need to be addressed to build effective and efficient DSID systems. Considering the fact that the presented appraisal is somewhat more focused towards technical, social and user oriented aspects, the authors believe that this appraisal will help technologists, researchers, and developers to understand the research initiatives and associated challenges that need attention with respect to the Indian context.

scholarly journals Using New and Innovative Technologies to Assess Clinical Stage in Early Intervention Youth Mental Health Services: Evaluation Study (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Ospina-Pinillos ◽  
Tracey Davenport ◽  
Frank Iorfino ◽  
Ashleigh Tickell ◽  
Shane Cross ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Young People ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Clinical Stage ◽  
Youth Mental Health ◽  
Online Assessment ◽  
Innovative Technologies ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Right

BACKGROUND Globally there is increasing recognition that new strategies are required to reduce disability due to common mental health problems. As 75% of mental health and substance use disorders emerge during the teenage or early adulthood years, these strategies need to be readily accessible to young people. When considering how to provide such services at scale, new and innovative technologies show promise in augmenting traditional clinic-based services. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to test new and innovative technologies to assess clinical stage in early intervention youth mental health services using a prototypic online system known as the Mental Health eClinic (MHeC). METHODS The online assessment within the MHeC was compared directly against traditional clinician assessment within 2 Sydney-based youth-specific mental health services (headspace Camperdown and headspace Campbelltown). A total of 204 young people were recruited to the study. Eligible participants completed both face-to-face and online assessments, which were randomly allocated and counterbalanced at a 1-to-3 ratio. These assessments were (1) a traditional 45- to 60-minute headspace face-to-face assessment performed by a Youth Access Clinician and (2) an approximate 60-minute online assessment (including a self-report Web-based survey, immediate dashboard of results, and a video visit with a clinician). All assessments were completed within a 2-week timeframe from initial presentation. RESULTS Of the 72 participants who completed the study, 71% (51/72) were female and the mean age was 20.4 years (aged 16 to 25 years); 68% (49/72) of participants were recruited from headspace Camperdown and the remaining 32% (23/72) from headspace Campbelltown. Interrater agreement of participants’ stage, as determined after face-to-face assessment or online assessment, demonstrated fair agreement (kappa=.39, P<.001) with concordance in 68% of cases (49/72). Among the discordant cases, those who were allocated to a higher stage by online raters were more likely to report a past history of mental health disorders (P=.001), previous suicide planning (P=.002), and current cannabis misuse (P=.03) compared to those allocated to a lower stage. CONCLUSIONS The MHeC presents a new and innovative method for determining key clinical service parameters. It has the potential to be adapted to varied settings in which young people are connected with traditional clinical services and assist in providing the right care at the right time.

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