CONNECTING INTERNATIONAL RiD COOPERATION AND TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIZATION IN OECD COUNTRIES

Technology specialization is supported by processes combining inhouse and external innovation. Applying a macroeconomic and international trade theory approach (Linder, 1961), country specialization depends on international RiD cooperation partnerships. External, international RiD cooperation is essential for technology specialization, as it raises awareness of countries’ position on a global technology map. This paper studies international RiD cooperation as a determinant of countries’ technology specialization. Cross-country panel regression was done on a sample of 37 OECD countries for the period 1980-2018. The analysis examined the effect of international RiD cooperation on technology specialization. Data were obtained from the OECD database. Co-patenting with foreign inventors was used to indicate the level of international RiD cooperation. Patent per technology was used to calculate technology specialization based on the Herfindahl index. Results indicate a positive effect of international RiD cooperation on technology specialization. The effect of RiD cooperation on technology specialization is more pronounced when GDP and RiD expenditure were used as control variables. Additionally, the size of the GDP negatively affects technology specialization. This paper identifies international cooperation as a bridge for global information exchange, which results with countries’ technology specialization.

Building a Technological Innovation Roadmap from the Viewpoint of CMC Institute of Science and Technology, Vietnam

CMC Institute of Science and Technology (CIST) is a research and development department of CMC Corporation, Vietnam. The development of a technological innovation roadmap (TIR) is of great significance to the existence and development of CIST. In fact, the construction of a TIR has a wide scope, diverse content, and rich approach. This article does not focus on studying the academic TIR but will clarify the TIR of a specific research institute (CIST) based on the approach of building a roadmap for technological innovation introduced by the Stage Agency for Technology Innovation, Vietnam. The paper is a part of the research results of the topic "Construction technology map and technological innovation roadmap in developing and applying IoT in Vietnam”, code: ĐM.40.DA/19. Keywords: Technological innovation roadmap, CMC.

Technology Map: A Text Mining and Network Analysis Approach

<em><span lang="EN-US">Information of technology development is indispensable for research planning. This information is needed by researcher to determine research topics which he will contribute. For journal editor, this information is needed to evaluate research paper draft. Unfortunately, technology development is unable to be measured directly. To measure the development, several methods have been developed using patent and journal as its data. In this work we focused on development of technology map and its measurement in a method to provide information of technology development from Indonesian research journals using text mining and network analysis. The map helps stakeholders to plan their researches. Using journal data from agro-industrial technology, the method is able to identify relation between researches, thus we can develop the time line of the research area. The method can also cluster the researches into nineteen research areas and measure its popularity, importance, affinity to particular group, research type whether breakthrough or incremental, research group retention time, and its saturation.</span></em>

The Research of Next-Gen Game Engine Virtual Reality in Actual Project

The progeny of the paper includes firstly the thought of realizing the system based on the 3D game engine and illustrates the feasibility by realizing the system, secondly the paper mainly focus on little team application next-gen game platform UNREAL engine game project development process. We make detailed research on project planning, operation management, product testing, model technology, map technology, UNREAL engine program technology research and to do detailed study on small team processes parallel work management and arrangement of probing.

A Longitudinal Study of Speech Perception Skills and Device Characteristics of Adolescent Cochlear Implant Users

Background: For pediatric cochlear implant (CI) users, CI processor technology, map characteristics, and fitting strategies are known to have a substantial impact on speech perception scores at young ages. It is unknown whether these benefits continue over time as these children reach adolescence. Purpose: To document changes in CI technology, map characteristics, and speech perception scores in children between elementary grades and high school, and to describe relations between map characteristics and speech perception scores over time. Research Design: A longitudinal design with participants 8–9-yr-old at session 1 and 15–18-yr-old at session 2. Study Sample: Participants were 82 adolescents with unilateral CIs, who are a subset of a larger longitudinal study. Mean age at implantation was 3.4 yr (range: 1.7–5.4), and mean duration of device use was 5.5 yr (range: 3.8–7.5) at session 1 and 13.3 yr (range: 10.9–15) at session 2. Data Collection and Analysis: Speech perception tests at sessions 1 and 2 were the Lexical Neighborhood Test (LNT) presented at 70 dB SPL (LNT-70) and Bamford-Kowal-Bench sentences in quiet (BKB-Q) presented at 70 dB SPL. At session 2, the LNT was also administered at 50 dB SPL (LNT-50), and BKB sentences were administered in noise with a +10 dB SNR (BKB-N). CI processor technology type and CI map characteristics (coding strategy, number of electrodes, threshold levels, and comfort levels) were obtained at both sessions. Electrical dynamic range was computed, and descriptive statistics, correlations, and repeated-measures ANOVAs were employed. Results: Participants achieved significantly higher LNT and BKB scores, at 70 dB SPL, at ages 15–18 than at ages 8–9 yr. Forty-two participants had 1–3 electrodes either activated or deactivated in their map between test sessions, and 40 had no change in number of active electrodes (mean change: −0.5; range: −3 to +2). After conversion from arbitrary clinical map units to charge-per-phase in nanocoulombs (nC), no significant difference was found for T levels across time. Average comfort levels (C levels) decreased by 19 nC. Seventy-three participants (89%) upgraded their CI processor technology type. At both sessions, significant correlations were found between electrical dynamic range (EDR) and all speech perception measures except LNT-50 (r range: .31 to .47; p < 0.01). Similarly, significant correlations were also found between C levels and all speech perception measures (r range: .29 to .49; p < 0.01). At session 2, a significant correlation was found between processor technology type and the LNT-50 scores (r = .38; p < 0.01). Conclusions: Significant improvement in speech scores was observed between elementary grades and high school for children who had used a CI since preschool. On average, T levels (nC) and electrode function remained stable for these long-term pediatric users. Analyses of maps did not allow for the determination of the exact cause of C level reductions, though power limitations in new processor systems and changes in perceived loudness over time are possible. Larger EDRs and higher C levels were associated with better speech scores. Newer speech processor technology was associated with better speech scores at a softer level.

INTEGRATED INNOVATION BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION

A framework for technological and organizational capability audits is proposed, and the relevance of integrating technology and organization and product competitiveness of Chinese firms is then examined. Empirical data were acquired through a recent study of innovative firms from Beijing, China. An organization-technology map and statistical analyses are used to verify five hypotheses in order to identify the relationship amongst product competitiveness and integration of technology and organization. The results effectively verify the positive relationship among technological innovation, organizational innovation and product competitiveness. The findings also reveal that integrated innovation between technology and organization is critical for the improvement of product competitiveness of Chinese firms.