scholarly journals Local Entrepreneurs’ Involvement in Strategy Building to Facilitate Agro-Food Waste Valorisation within an Agro-Food Technological District: A SWOT-SOR Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Prosperi ◽  
Roberta Sisto ◽  
Antonio Lopolito ◽  
Valentina C. Materia
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Waste Valorization ◽  
Technical Process ◽  
Waste Valorisation ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Strategy Building ◽  
Operational Tool

The paper focuses on Agro-food waste valorization conceived as a long-term, complex socio-technical process involving several different actors belonging to multiple levels. Although this process is typically affected by a series of uncertainties, the convergence of stakeholders’ expectations proves to be a means to overcoming barriers, as it acts as the foundation of a shared agenda setting which formalizes the coordination efforts among the actors involved in an innovation process. Applying the strategic niche management (SNM) framework to the case of the Apulia Agro-Food Technology District (DARe), whose mission is to promote a bio-based industry for food-waste valorization, the paper proposes an operational tool capable of designing the strategy based on the entrepreneurs’ knowledge. The DARe aims to promote the technological innovation of agro-food firms located in the South of Italy. The results of a SWOT-SOR analysis led to the establishment of a twofold strategy aimed at (a) promoting the innovation of more active and dynamic firms, and (b) reducing the gap between “pioneer” and “laggard” firms, with the result of promoting integrated innovation throughout the entire district.

On Climate Change Risks of Long-Term Socio-Economic Development in Russia

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
N.E. Terentiev
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Climate Risk ◽  
Climate Change Risks ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Management Policies

Based on the latest data, paper investigates the dynamics of global climate change and its impact on economic growth in the long-term. The notion of climate risk is considered. The main directions of climate risk management policies are analyzed aimed, first, at reducing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions through technological innovation and structural economic shifts; secondly, at adaptation of population, territories and economic complexes to the irreparable effects of climate change. The problem of taking into account the phenomenon of climate change in the state economic policy is put in the context of the most urgent tasks of intensification of long-term socio-economic development and parrying strategic challenges to the development of Russia.

scholarly journals Climatological and statistical characteristics of the Haines Index for North America

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie A. Winkler ◽  
Brian E. Potter ◽  
Dwight F. Wilhelm ◽  
Ryan P. Shadbolt ◽  
Krerk Piromsopa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Spatial Variability ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Statistical Characteristics ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Extensive Analysis ◽  
Temperature And Humidity ◽  
Humidity Measurements ◽  
Operational Tool

The Haines Index is an operational tool for evaluating the potential contribution of dry, unstable air to the development of large or erratic plume-dominated wildfires. The index has three variants related to surface elevation, and is calculated from temperature and humidity measurements at atmospheric pressure levels. To effectively use the Haines Index, fire forecasters and managers must be aware of the climatological and statistical characteristics of the index for their location. However, a detailed, long-term, and spatially extensive analysis of the index does not currently exist. To meet this need, a 40-year (1961–2000) climatology of the Haines Index was developed for North America. The climatology is based on gridded (2.5° latitude × 2.5° longitude) temperature and humidity fields from the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis. The climatology illustrates the large spatial variability in the Haines Index both within and between regions using the different index variants. These spatial variations point to the limitations of the index and must be taken into account when using the Haines Index operationally.

scholarly journals Integrated conversion technologies for sustainable agri-food waste valorization: A critical review

2022 ◽  
Vol 156 ◽  
pp. 106314
Author(s):  
Falilat O. Kassim ◽  
C.L. Paul Thomas ◽  
Oluwasola O.D. Afolabi
Keyword(s):  
Food Waste ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Waste Valorization ◽  
Conversion Technologies

scholarly journals A model of the supplier involvement in the product innovation

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manoj Kumar ◽  
Jyoti Raman ◽  
Priya Raman
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Effort Level ◽  
Endogenous Time Preference ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Fluctuation Frequency

In this paper we examine the product innovation in a supply chain by a supplier and derive a model for a supplier?s product innovation policy. The product innovation of a supplier can contribute to the long-term competitiveness for the supply chain, and as it is for many supply chains a major factor, it should be considered in the development of strategies for a supplier. Here, we evaluate the effectiveness of supplier product innovation as a strategic tool to enhance the competitiveness and viability of supply chain. This paper explores the dynamic research performance of a supplier with endogenous time preference under a given arrangement of product innovation. We find that the optimal effort level and the achieved product innovation obey a saddle point path, or show tremendous fluctuations even without introducing the stochastic nature of product innovative activity. We also find that the fluctuation frequency is largely dependent both on the supplier?s characteristics such as supplier?s product innovative ability and on the nature of product innovation process per se. Short-run analyses are also made on the effect of supply chain cooperation in the product innovation process.

scholarly journals Can we still Speak about the Innovation Process per se?

Triple Helix ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Andrzej H Jasinski
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Industrial Firms ◽  
Per Se

Abstract In this article, we are analyzing an influence of various factors on the contents, structure and organization of the contemporary innovation process. The main hypothesis assumes that the contemporary innovation more and more often comes as a result of a quite loose set of dispersed processes and not of a put-in-order, several-phase innovation process. The article starts with a literature survey followed by four empirical illustrations. On the basis of this, the multi-process model of technological innovation is presented. Afterwards, we identify implications for practice, especially the main challenges to be faced by innovation managers in industrial firms.

scholarly journals Ageing Societies and Technological Innovation

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Juliane Jarke
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Demographic Ageing ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Alternative Measures ◽  
Global North ◽  
Technological Fix

Abstract Demographic ageing has been declared one of the main challenges for countries in the Global North by politicians, journalists, industry and academia alike. Many frame ageing as a problem that needs a technological fix and most digital technologies designed for older adults, reproduce images about old age defined by ill health, deficits and limitations. Digital public services are no different. However, scholars in critical and social gerontology argue that most of the alarmist rhetoric around demographic ageing and projected social implications are based on flawed assumptions about older people (e.g. their ability to contribute to their communities) and the ageing process (e.g. as solely described in terms of decline and long-term care needs). This chapter reviews dominant concepts about ageing societies, older adults and technological innovation. It argues, that engaging older adults in design processes, allows for alternative measures and attributes of “success” in later life and that participatory approaches can reconfigure how and which imaginaries and social practices are being scripted into technologies.

Customer productivity in technology-based self-service of virtual golf simulators

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-34
Author(s):  
Taehee Kim ◽  
Hyomin Seo ◽  
Min Cheol Kim ◽  
Kyungro Chang
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Self Service

Boosting productivity in the service sector is a key priority for promoting long-term growth. To have customers perform certain tasks normally undertaken by employees is an important means to improving productivity. Technological innovation has influenced business practices for several decades and many service firms, including sports service firms, are now utilising technology extensively to reduce the use of labour. This study investigates how the user's perception of technology-based self-service (TBSS)affects customer productivity and how the customer productivity evaluated by TBSS influences the customer's intentions to reuse in relation to a virtual golf simulator - a successful and seriously played game in Korea.

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