Preliminary results of the impact of 3D-visualization resources in the area of graphic expression on the motivation of university students

Augmented reality and virtual reality are innovative technologies applied to the area of graphic expression with increasing influence on the teaching–learning process. Although these innovative resources enable new forms of teaching, it remains unclear how these artificial applications can impact students’ motivation. The aim of this paper was to evaluate how virtual exercises increase the motivation level in different typologies of university students. The sample was composed of graduate (master’s degree) and undergraduate students (three engineering degrees) of the University of Cordoba. These tools were available to students through four devices: mobile phones, tablets, computers and virtual reality goggles. The motivation of the students was evaluated through the modified Instructional Materials Motivation Survey by the attention, relevance, confidence and satisfaction motivational model. The results obtained through a 5-point Likert scale showed that these innovative resources significantly improved the students’ motivation level, especially concerning the ‘relevance’ aspect (M = 4.01; SD = 0.98). The virtual resources also increased the understanding of the exercises and their spatial vision (M = 3.80; SD = 1.14). Of the total sample, 63.83% students considered the virtual reality goggles as the most suitable device to visualize graphic expression exercises.

How Technological Innovation Affect China’s Pharmaceutical Smart Manufacturing Industrial Upgrading

In recent years, a new generation of information technology has provided sufficient technical support for the smart manufacturing industry. In order to promote the upgrading of China’s pharmaceutical smart manufacturing industry, the direction of industrial upgrading and transformation will be discussed from the perspective of technological innovation. According to the input and output data of technological innovation in China’s pharmaceutical manufacturing industry from 2007 to 2019, the DEA method is used to analyze the allocation of innovative resources in China’s pharmaceutical manufacturing industry in recent years. The study found that the efficiency of technological innovation in China’s pharmaceutical manufacturing industry fluctuated greatly from 2007 to 2019, with a low overall level and varying degrees of wasted resources. On this basis, an in-depth analysis of the system architecture of the pharmaceutical smart manufacturing industry under the Industry 4.0 environment was performed. Finally, four paths for the digital transformation of China’s pharmaceutical manufacturing industry are proposed. Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturing companies need to use new technologies to carry out comprehensive intelligent upgrading and digital transformation to improve innovation efficiency.

How is Innovation Performance Under the Restriction of Industry Cluster: Evidence from a Survey on High-Tech Firms

Under-development of high-tech industry cluster hampers the strategy of innovation-driven for less developed regions. While prior studies has demonstrated innovation difference among regions, little attention has been paid to innovation heterogeneity at firm-level. An conceptual model is adopted to evaluate innovative activities of high-tech firms in under-development regions. Using unique firm survey, an investigation was thoroughly conducted on high-tech firms. Based on survey data of 142 high-tech firms, some interesting results emerge. Lack of support from industry cluster, depression effect of technological innovation is not obvious. SMEs have more inclination to innovate, asymmetry exist between occupation of innovative resources and innovation ability, and weak innovation agglomeration effect shows in two development zones. Further analysis on input-output efficiency of innovation indicate that, input-output efficiency of R&D funding is relatively good, but R&D personnel and innovation management are insufficient, which lead to low effective conversion effect.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENTERPRISE’S INNOVATIVE POTENTIAL ON THE BASIS OF RESOURCE THEORY

Innovations play great role in the economic growth and development. And question of explanation enterprises’ ability to generate and implement them are topical as from scientific, as from applied points of view. The article is dedicated to the issues of innovative potential and its development. Authors explain its essence on the basic of resource theory and propose to determine its main components such as innovative resources, innovative capabilities, innovative competencies and innovative project. Based on this it is proposed to define innovative potential as set of integrated characteristics, which let use innovative resources with help of innovative competencies on the basic of innovative organizational capabilities. Innovation resources include both traditional and intellectual resources. Innovative competencies are sets of personnel features to generate innovative ideas and provide their implementation. Innovative organizational capabilities characterize ability of enterprise use innovative resources by development of modern business-models, processes and procedures. Innovative projects are main tool of innovative potential realization. Research shows expediency for evaluation and monitoring of innovative potential development to use four-component matrix. These components are resources, competencies, capabilities and projects. First three are components of innovative potential, fourth — embodiment of the realization of innovation potential. These components are evaluated on the basic of binary logic of economic processes analysis. Dynamic model of innovative potential development is proposed. This model consists of such stages: analysis of innovative potential components; selection of target innovative projects; identification of correspondence between components of innovative potential and target projects; creation of innovation potential development program. Keywords: innovation, development, innovation potential, resources, capabilities, competencies, innovative project, evaluation of innovative potential model. JEL Classification O31, O32, O33 Formulas: 2; fig.: 6; tabl.: 0; bibl.: 17.

ICT and gamification experiences with CLIL methodology as innovative resources for the development of competencies in compulsory secondary education

Due to the lack of research in the field of music through CLIL and ICT in Secondary Education in Spain, we propose to merge this subject with an innovative methodology. The general objective is to present a different approach to students in order to increase their motivation for the subject. The specific objectives are to teach music in English by integrating content, cognition and vocabulary through communication and the use of new technologies. This approach makes the design and implementation didactic, audiovisual and multimedia. Cuadernia: digital notebook composed of flash files, videos and audios, and gamification strategies. Quizziz: multiplayer questionnaire of class contents, based on teaching music through a cooperative methodology and gamification, are applied as options with a great educational projection, with information and innovative pedagogical experiences and potential to work together in the classroom with different levels of the subject. The results that follow the Likert scale reflect high student satisfaction with regard to teaching methodology, content acquisition, teacher training, ICT and resources. As a conclusion, of the coincident results between the professor and the students, we would like to implement it in the coming years.

Strengthening the Innovation Resilience of Polish Manufacturing Firms in Unstable Environments

This study examines factors that increase resilience in innovation of Polish manufacturing firms in an unstable environment. Organizational resilience in innovation is the ability to continuously perform innovation in a turbulent environment and increase knowledge accumulation. In 2008–2012, Poland did not have crisis itself. Short-term slowdown of the economy was accompanied by a breakdown of innovation activities, with a medium-term effect. Based on the Polish Community Innovation Survey panel data for two periods: the innovation crisis (2008–2010), and the innovation pessimism period (2010–2012), this study shows which innovative resources change the probability of innovation continuity in the second period. In our probit model, we explore 42 factors of innovations. We found that financing, R&D and marketing increased the probability of continuity of innovation, but the influence of financing was the strongest. Persistence in innovation in turbulent times hence requires a change in the structure of innovation resources used. Due to the fact that public support on innovation did not increase the likelihood of the continuity of the innovation, a policy change is required. Reliability of our estimation is confirmed by accuracy of prediction of firms, which was 78.2%.

ИНСОН КАПИТАЛИНИНГ РИВОЖЛАНГАНЛИК ДАРАЖАСИНИ АНИҚЛАШДА ГЛОБАЛ ИННОВАЦИОН ИНДЕКСНИНГ ЎРНИ РОЛЬ ГЛОБАЛЬНОГО ИННОВАЦИОННОГО ИНДЕКСА В ОПРЕДЕЛЕНИИ УРОВНЯ РАЗВИТИЯ ЧЕЛОВЕЧЕСКОГО КАПИТАЛА THE ROLE OF THE GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX IN DETERMINING THE LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN CAPITAL

Аннотация: Мақолада инсон капиталининг моҳияти ҳамда унинг ривожланганлик даражасини аниқлашда Глобал Инновацион Индекснинг ўрни тадқиқ қилинган. Ўзбекистоннинг Глобал Инновацион Индексдаги ўрни ўрганиб чиқилган ва таҳлил қилинган. Калит сўзлар: инсон капитали, инновация, инвестиция, инновация ресурслари, инновация натижалари, институционал ривожланиш, илмий тадқиқотлар, инфратузилма. Аннотация: В статье исследуется сущности человеческого капитала и роль глобального инновационного индекса в определении уровня его развития. Место Узбекистана в Глобальном инновационном индексе изучено и проанализировано. Ключевые слова: человеческий капитал, инновации, инвестиции, инновационные ресурсы, результаты инноваций, институциональное развитие, научные исследования, инфраструктура. Abstract: The article examines the essence of human capital and the role of the global innovation index in determining the level of its development. The place of Uzbekistan in the Global Innovation Index has been studied and analysed. Key words: human capital, innovation, investment, innovative resources, innovation results, institutions, research, infrastructure.

Open Innovation in Brazil: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges

While open innovation has been increasingly adopted in developed countries, firms from emerging markets such as Brazil markedly fall behind this trend. Our understanding of the reasons behind this phenomenon remains nevertheless limited, since most research focuses on the industrialized world. In this paper, we aim to inspire the academic community to investigate the issue of why companies from emerging economies such as Brazil have limited open innovation strategies, when they need to draw on external partners as to overcome the institutional, resource and capability constraints they are subject to. We build on the argument that latecomer firms in emerging economies need to actively use open innovation more than ever, as to overcome internal rigidities and spur the innovative resources and capabilities required for the digital transformation and for addressing grand societal challenges. In reviewing current research on openness and especially in the Brazilian setting, we contend that it is a relevant empirical context to study, giving the potential to uncover unique mechanisms and theoretical relations by asking (and possibly answering) novel research questions. Building on a conceptual framework that links various implementation levels of open innovation, we identify themes that are either less well researched or contested and thereby suggest challenges and opportunities for future research.

Forming of Innovative Resources in the Context of Ensuring Sustainable Development of Regions

The problem of the formation of innovative resources in the context of sustainable development of the Russian Federation regions is an actual area of research, since the scientific discussion has determined that it is advisable to include innovative and institutional factors in the sustainable development triad. The key components of sustainable development, ensuring economic growth in the era of the sixth technological order are clarified and described. It has been established that modern innovative transformation in the context of sustainable development implies the introduction of IT technologies with a high degree of robotization of the production process, as well as the enhancement of information transfer procedures and the use of a large flow of information. Pursuant to the results of the study of the theory of innovative development, as well as the analysis and assessment of the Russian experience of innovation activity and the formation of innovation policy, the architecture of the strategy for the region innovative development has been substantiated. Requirements for the current modern strategy of region innovative development for sustainable development are formulated

Improving Kefir Bioactive Properties by Functional Enrichment with Plant and Agro-Food Waste Extracts

An increase in the number of novel fortified kefir-based beverages was observed in the last decades. Vegetables were often proposed as convenient resources of bioactive molecules able to improve nutraceutical benefits of these drinks and/or to confer them new significant features. These findings have been well accepted by the consumers, which generally reserve an important role to the quality of the assumed food and beverages. Specifically, functional fermented milk-based drinks enriched with vegetable extracts display significant biological properties, due to the presence of bioactive compounds exhibiting antimicrobial and antioxidant features. In addition, agro-industrial wastes have been also proposed as innovative resources of secondary metabolites to enrich kefir-based products. Eco-friendly extraction techniques were generally exploited to achieve the isolation of biomolecules and reducing, at the same time, economic and environmental loads. To this regard, this review deeply investigates the main findings to improve kefir bioactive properties by functional enrichment with plant and agro-food waste extracts. The nutraceutical characteristics related to the consumers’ health benefits, as well as their effects on the sensorial, chemical, and microbiological properties of the products were evaluated.