Perfecting Enterprise Labourers' Incentive System on the Basis of Competitive and Innovative Approach

In the materials of the section of the monograph, the competitive and innovative concept of the enterprise is formed, according to which it is considered as an independent socio-economic competitive system, which includes four subsystems: creating the competitiveness of the enterprise; ensuring the competitiveness of goods; forming and rational use of competitive advantages, including territorial ones; ensuring high profitability of the enterprise. A system of incentives for the work of employees of the enterprise has been developed based on a competitive and innovative approach in the context of three directions: the formation of competitive advantages of the enterprise, increasing the competitiveness of products and enterprises, maximizing the profits of the enterprise. Competitive and innovation-oriented labor incentives solve simultaneously the task of activating innovation activity and increasing the demand for innovations and innovations.

Means to valuable exploration: I. The blending of confirmation and exploration and how to resolve it

Clandestine exploratory analyses are all too common, producing nominally confirmatory results through hidden analytical steps instead of harnessing exploration’s potential to modify and inform hypotheses, models, and theories. For such valuable exploration to evolve, however, methodological guidance, elaboration and implementation in the publication system is required. We present some basic conceptions to stimulate further development. In this first of two papers, we describe the current blending of confirmatory and exploratory research and how to separate the two via severe testing and the use of and compliance with an evidential norm. We consider bias and deal with the related Bayesian approach to severity. We discuss the role of pre-registration, outlining how conducting transparent exploration counteracts the pressure to produce seemingly confirmative findings and arguing that collaboration in confirmatory-exploratory research chains ("chained explorations") may already be beneficial in the current incentive system. The second paper will provide suggestions on how to do valuable exploration and how to implement exploratory research.

Prosocial option increases women’s entry into competition

We provide evidence that women enter competitions at the same rate as men when the incentive for winning includes the option to share part of the rewards with the losers (i.e., when the incentive system is socially oriented). Using an experiment (with N = 238 subjects from three laboratories), we find that about 16% more men than women choose to compete in the standard tournament; this gender gap is eliminated in the socially oriented incentive treatment. While men’s choice to compete remains unchanged, at around 52% in both conditions, women increase their entry rate from 35% in the standard tournament to 60% when the incentive includes a socially oriented option.

COVID-19 Digital Vaccination Passport Based on Blockchain with Its Own Cryptocurrency as a Reward and Mobile App for Its Use

Due to the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, everybody’s lives have changed dramatically and society went through new stages accompanied by new needs. This article details a solution for one of these needs, since it provides a system of digital certificates for the secure storage and sharing of medical data related to COVID-19, with the goal of demonstrating immunity or lack of viral infection in a unequivocal, unbreakable and secure way. The proposed system is based on Blockchain and its inherent benefits, developing also a decentralized, mobile and multiplatform app for its use and an incentive system with a customized cryptocurrency in order to reward the users who use it.