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Wolfgang KNOLL (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)15/05/2017, 09:00Keynote
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Christian WEISSENBURGER15/05/2017, 09:25
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Dr Tarek Khalil (Nile University)15/05/2017, 09:45
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Mr TATSUYA KURODA (The University of Tokyo)15/05/2017, 10:30Small and medium enterprises and innovationPresentation only (Category B)Design Thinking (DT) is becoming a more important concept in both innovative major companies and growing startups. They are daily struggling on whiteboards putting on and off sticky notes, while they are also analyzing big data by the cutting-edge computing algorism. DT and Data Analysis (DA) are coming to essential skill to their innovation. On the other hand, in research fields, we...Go to contribution page
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Mr Rico Cho (Department of Information Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology)15/05/2017, 10:30Standard-essential patents (SEPs) refer to officially recognized patents for an industrial standard. SEPs are crucial nevertheless not all important patents related to a standard are listed as its SEPs. In this paper, we propose a method to identify potential valuable patents which are missing from a standard’s SEP list. The method begins with expanding the scope of SEPs through a...Go to contribution page
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Ms Snehal Tawate (National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, India)15/05/2017, 10:30Technology transfer, marketing and commercializationPresentation only (Category B)Technologies have become the foremost differentiator for business excellence and growth. The conversion of invention into commercially viable new product or service based on the technology known as technology commercialization (TC) is critical for economic growth of a country. TC is a complex phenomenon involving various factors. Various TC models (linear and non-linear) and modes like -...Go to contribution page
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Dr MARCIA MAY (UFPR)15/05/2017, 10:30Economic and societal impact of technologyResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The open innovation practice as proposed by (CHESBROUGH, 2003; 2013) is directly related to the organization's business model. Although the themes of open innovation and business model are discussed in the international literature with assorted characteristics, there is a research gap involving empirical studies in the context of public companies, since the literature focuses on...Go to contribution page
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Ms CRISTIANI FONTANELA (Universidade Comunitária da Região de Chapecó - UNOCHAPECÓ), Dr JAQUELINE DA SILVA ALBINO (Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso - UNEMAT), Ms Maria Isabel Araujo Silva dos Santos (INSTITUTO MAUÁ DE PESQUISA E EDUCAÇÃO - MAUÁ-DF)15/05/2017, 10:30Green technologies and sustainabilityResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The second major oil crisis made countries acutely aware of their dependence on energy derived from oil and coal, and motivated them to seek alternatives in order to mitigate the associated risks, which threatened their national development and sovereignty. Thus, several governments decided to adopt a diversified energy matrix, through the use of energy from renewable and clean sources, which...Go to contribution page
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Dr Edgar Schiebel (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH)15/05/2017, 10:48Green technologies and sustainabilityResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)This contribution presents a study of recent communication in the emerging issue “bio-economy”. We introduce a topic specific analysis of social media communication during selected conferences. In recent years the emergence and rapid spread of social media has led to a paradigm shift in the way how people communicate, exchange and store information. For quite some time, the emergence of the...Go to contribution page
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Mr Mohamed Fouad El Nawawy (Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center)15/05/2017, 10:52Economic and societal impact of technologyResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Egypt and India are both developing countries where ICT industry is a driver for economic growth. The World Bank outlines requirements necessary to adopt a knowledge economy which include (Rizk et al, 2015): A sound institutional and economic regime, An effective educational system, necessary to produce a qualified workforce, Telecommunications Infrastructure. These requirements, in addition...Go to contribution page
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Ms JINGWEN FU (Harbin Engineering University)15/05/2017, 10:52Although R&D and production are both indispensable in firms′ innovation activities, existing studies on innovation performance always consider the two processes separately when trying to find out factors that determine firms′ innovation performance. Considering only one process makes it hard to figure out which is more important for firms′ innovation performance. To compensate the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Marta Lucia Tostes Vieira (PUCP)15/05/2017, 10:52Technology transfer, marketing and commercializationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The electrification of rural areas is a process that has the ability to allow isolated populations to meet their basic needs and promote their development. For this activity to have the necessary impact, the use of new technology that can be transmitted is required. In this aspect, a method of technological transmission is the technology extension, which has been allowing users to access and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Sara Grobbelaar (Department of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University)15/05/2017, 10:52Small and medium enterprises and innovationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The South African BOP is gaining increasing popularity as a lucrative market for entrepreneurs who are willing to align their businesses with the particular requirements necessary for operating in the BOP. Though SME owners are coming to appreciate the potential for alleviating poverty profitably, they lack a framework by which they can guide their efforts to achieve higher levels of growth....Go to contribution page
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Ms MANMAN WANG (Harbin Engineering University)15/05/2017, 11:06Green technologies and sustainabilityPresentation only (Category B)With the rapid development of economy in our country.The waste of resources, environmental pollution and ecological destruction and other issues are becoming more and more obvious.Manufacturing industry, especially the equipment manufacturing industry, is a strategic industry which provides technical equipment for the national economy and is the important guarantee of industrial upgrading of...Go to contribution page
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Ms Asmaa Ibrahim (Engineer)15/05/2017, 11:14Economic and societal impact of technologyPresentation only (Category B)Cognitive computing is a result of the radical advance in the evolution of computing, which transforms the business operation. It will give many opportunities for business to prosper. It will generate new business models and change the way of industries operation. Now, there are many startups have been established based on cognitive computing and availing cognitive systems. The major...Go to contribution page
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Mr Matheus Luiz PONTELO DE SOUZA (Federal University of Minas Gerais)15/05/2017, 11:14R&D ManagementResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Innovating in a systematic and regular way is a fundamental concern for organizations in order to achieve competitiveness. In this context, Innovation Management Systems (IMS) constitute an important organizational approach to foster the capabilities to innovate continuously. One of the central elements of an IMS is the set of metrics that support the monitoring and control of the innovation...Go to contribution page
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Jung-Ah Hwang (Seoul National University)15/05/2017, 11:14Technology transfer, marketing and commercializationPresentation only (Category B)One of the way of technology commercialization on global market is transferring technology across border and making a profit via foreign direct investment, joint venture, license etc. The success of technology transfer is a key factor of technology commercialization on global market. However, technology transfer from one country to another countries where have different culture, are...Go to contribution page
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Ms Xiaojun Yang (Harbin Engineering University)15/05/2017, 11:14Innovation and technological progress are deemed basic determinants of regional economic growth. Industry-university research synergy innovation is considered to be an important strategy of regional development and economic growth in China. Enterprises, universities and scientific research institutions enhance their independent Research & Development (R&D) ability, at the same time the...Go to contribution page
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Mr Timm Coors (Institute for Machine Design and Tribology, Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, 30167, Hannover, Germany)15/05/2017, 11:24Green technologies and sustainabilityResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Due to the current demand to reduce the power consumption particularly in the transportation sector intensive research is carried out to reach resource efficiency. To fulfill future trends in resource efficiency machine elements offer possibilities to enhance the surface andpart properties and to reduce the components weight and costs. By applying residual stresses to bearing surfaces it could...Go to contribution page
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Dr YOON BEEN LEE (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Evaluation and Planning)15/05/2017, 11:36In Korea, not only government but also private sector continues to increase investment in R&D, and then Facilities, apparatus, and human resources reached higher position comparing decade ago. The investment has been mentioned as a primary factor in nurturing companies, heightening national competitiveness, and securing sustainable development. The government has made efforts to establish...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Elma Van der Lingen (University of Pretoria)15/05/2017, 11:36Small and medium enterprises and innovationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The impact of the information technology (IT) sector in the creation of entrepreneurial ventures has been demonstrated for various countries. Entrepreneurship is a key ingredient to underpin economic growth for developing countries. There is limited research on technology entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the challenges IT entrepreneurs encounter in South Africa. This study...Go to contribution page
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Dr Karuna Jain (Director, National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, India), Ms Snehal Tawate (Research Fellow, National Institute of Industrial Engineering)15/05/2017, 11:36Technology transfer, marketing and commercializationPresentation only (Category B)In the era of globalization, with shorter technology and product life cycle, it is not only the technological development, but its commercial exploitation that makes the difference. Thus commercializing technologies successfully with reduced time to market becomes crucial for organizations not only to survive but also to gain competitive advantage worldwide. Limited non-renewable resources,...Go to contribution page
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Dr Daniela Althoff Philippi (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso de Sul/Universidade Nove de Julho)15/05/2017, 11:36Economic and societal impact of technologyResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Radical innovations are relevant in economic development and for the agribusiness, mainly in social development, among other factors, due to increased food consumption in the world. The number of enterprises that have adopted the concept of open innovation is on the rise, seeking research sources and development (R&D) in other organizations such as universities. Assuming that innovations...Go to contribution page
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Dr Linda Kamp (TU Delft)15/05/2017, 11:42Green technologies and sustainabilityResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Worldwide, many countries are facilitating the development and diffusion of sustainable energy based technologies. Such technologies reduce CO2 emissions by limiting the use of fossil fuels. An example of such a technology is the electric vehicle. Most diffusion of electric vehicles takes place in industrialized countries, such as the Netherlands and Norway. But also in other countries...Go to contribution page
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Wilfried SIHN (TU Wien / Fraunhofer Austria)15/05/2017, 13:00
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Mr Christian Duelme (Heinz Nixdorf Instutite (University of Paderborn))15/05/2017, 13:30Future thinking, strategy development, and theory of technologyResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Nowadays, companies face rapidly increasing numbers of product variants. Among new developments or facelifts the current product portfolio is rarely revised. In addition, there is often no continuous reduction of the part master. Over time this leads to an excessive product portfolio and a disproportionate increase in complexity costs, because old products often require intensive support....Go to contribution page
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Mr Christian Fechtelpeter (Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design IEM)15/05/2017, 13:30Technology transfer, marketing and commercializationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The digital transformation affects all parts of industrial value creation. Major levers are the collection and usage of digital data, the interlinking of formerly independent systems and a transition from traditional products to integrated product-service systems. It is characterized by significant changes of established business processes resulting in dynamic value creation networks. More...Go to contribution page
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Mr Harald Wipfler (Graz University of Technology, Institute of General Management and Organization), Prof. Stefan Vorbach (Graz University of Technology, Institute of General Management and Organization)15/05/2017, 13:30Technological innovations increasingly influence the transformation of business models. Disruptive technological developments significantly influence business environments and alter the way how businesses are operated. These technologies replace existing technologies of incumbents by sacrificing features that are important to current customers and offering different attributes (Bower &...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ruchita Gupta (National Institute of Industrial Engineering)15/05/2017, 13:30Management of technology in developing countriesPresentation only (Category B)Cloud Computing (CC) has altered the way infrastructure, platform and applications are developed and deployed in the enterprises. Various sectors like manufacturing, banking services, healthcare, government and academics rely on IT functionalities along with data centres. This requires heavy investment due to high energy consumption, maintenance and infrastructural expenses. Cloud computing...Go to contribution page
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Mr Kwete Mwana Nyandongo (University of Johannesburg), Ms Maralise Davids (The University of Johannesburg)15/05/2017, 13:30The role of communication in project management has been intensively debated for decades. It has been investigated from various perspectives and has enjoyed a substantial coverage in project management literature. Communication has been identified as key to success and poor communication as the reason for many project failures. While some researchers have considered communication as just a...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ruchita Gupta (NITIE)15/05/2017, 13:52Management of technology in developing countriesPresentation only (Category B)The core research issue of the present study is to understand the adoption of cloud computing (CC) in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) firms in India. A system dynamics-based, user and service provider factor interrelationship model is developed to help evaluate the adoption of cloud computing in the firm. Different relationships and linkages between the service provider and...Go to contribution page
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Prof. David Resende (University of Aveiro - School of Technology and Management at Águeda)15/05/2017, 13:52Technology transfer, marketing and commercializationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)This article uses an original three-phase approach for empirical assessment and comparative evaluation of the efficiency of university technology transfer. It is based on analysis of inputs and outputs of a disclosure phase followed by a value-add phase and a final license phase, using a multidimensional framework. The objective is to find university Technology Transfer Office (TTO) efficiency...Go to contribution page
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Mr Julian Marius Müller (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)15/05/2017, 13:52Small and medium enterprises and innovationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Many industrial countries worldwide are confronted with multiple challenges such as globalization, increased volatility of markets, abbreviated innovation cycles, intensified competition and augmented complexity. As a result, the German government has initiated Industry 4.0, the German program for the introduction of the Industrial Internet of Things to respond to these challenges and maintain...Go to contribution page
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Dr Marta Lucia Tostes Vieira (PUCP)15/05/2017, 13:52Perez (2010) claims that the future development strategies of countries of Latin American region should contemplate changes associated with the massive application of advanced biology, to the sustainable transformation of renewable resources. The UNCTAD in the Report on Policy Review in Science, Technology and Innovation for Peru (UN, 2011) recounts the importance of the application of...Go to contribution page
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Mr Michael Rachinger (University of Graz)15/05/2017, 13:55Increased implementation of technologies and their widespread diffusion enables various new forms of cooperation between companies, leads to new product and service offerings as well as to new forms of company’s relationships to customers and employees (Kiel et al., 2016 referring to Kagermann, 2013). At the same time this digitalization puts pressure on companies “to critically reflect their...Go to contribution page
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Mr Bonginkosi Ngqulunga (University of Pretoria, PhD Candidate)15/05/2017, 14:14Changes in the external and internal business environment may induce a redirection of company strategy, which can result in the destruction of a company’s valuable intellectual assets (people and knowledge), generated through formal R&D investment. These intellectual assets may be of value to both the company and society, and their termination of projects as a consequence of the re-shaping of...Go to contribution page
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Mr Julio Rodriguez Rey (Universidad Nacional de Tucumán - Centro de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación Industrial)15/05/2017, 14:14Small and medium enterprises and innovationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)This study analyzes the dynamics of Product Design and Innovation in industrial SMEs in the province of Tucumán, Argentina. This group of companies, according to the literature is not particularly innovative, and is made up of companies mostly with low technological development. For the analysis, 10 best performing companies were selected from a group of 50 SMEs selected at randomly. These...Go to contribution page
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Prof. David Resende (University of Aveiro - School of Technology and Management at Águeda)15/05/2017, 14:14Technology transfer, marketing and commercializationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The purpose of this paper is to present a qualitative approach to evaluate Technology Transfer Offices’ performance based on a state-of-the-art overview and on the results collected during group meetings (Grounded Theory). The paper outlines studies that have been conducted on TTO’s performance, discussing the variables pointed out by different authors. It also delivers evidences of the...Go to contribution page
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Fabian Reck (University of Bamberg)15/05/2017, 14:14Knowledge managementResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The advancement of digitalization in traditional industries confronts established companies with the need to adjust their current competence base and develop expertise in hitherto unfamiliar fields. Inter-organizational networks like strategic alliances, regional clusters or industrial associations provide member firms with an infrastructure for knowledge transfer and thus represent an...Go to contribution page
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Dr Aldo Ofenheimer (Virtual Vehicle), Karoline Schuster (Spirit Design)15/05/2017, 14:20The European Union is heavily emphasizing the importance of open innovation and open science to leverage the potential and creativity of European citizens and finally unleash a plethora of novel ideas, cutting-edge improvements and commercially successful innovations. The overall goal is to increasethe competitiveness of the European industries. In one of their latest publications, the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Takao Fujiwara (Toyohashi University of Technology)15/05/2017, 14:36NASDAQ Biotechnology Index (NBI) has been more steady than Dow Jones Industrial Average. And digital technology is promoting democratic innovation. Start-ups are more excellent in speed, cost, and flexible management than large market-oriented pharmaceutical companies to integrate the innovative technology with the niche market. However, most start-ups are in negative profits except dozens...Go to contribution page
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Mr Alexandre Del Rey (University of São Paulo)15/05/2017, 14:36New business and investement models in the digital worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Innovation Front End is an important topic in Innovation Management, especially when considering Start-up companies where most of the company success is derived from a well developed idea and business plan. Digitalization and digital transformation are fields where Start-ups are very present and have a key role in the innovation processes of many industries. Although a topic with...Go to contribution page
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Dr Marianne Hörlesberger (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)15/05/2017, 14:36Knowledge managementPresentation only (Category B)Science, economy and industry, as well as society and government stand on the sill of a new technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way of our live, our work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity the transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before. The possibilities of billions of people connected by mobile devices, with...Go to contribution page
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Dr Andréa Paula Segatto (Federal University of Paraná), Dr Fernanda Salvador Alves (Federal University of Paraná)15/05/2017, 14:36Technology transfer, marketing and commercializationPresentation only (Category B)Understanding the path for technological development and innovation is a longstanding matter of interest for economic and organizational researchers (Bozeman & Link, 2015). However, contemporary technological dynamism and global economic integration brought this interest back (Audretsch et al., 2014). Thus, frontier technology is an important source of competitive advantage for organizations...Go to contribution page
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Ms Annica Marais (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)15/05/2017, 15:30Management of technology in developing countriesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The impetus of improved access to healthcare services in Sub-Saharan Africa necessitates that various challenges be addressed within healthcare value chains. The most commonly faced challenges have been proven to be major supply chain constraints, a shortage of skilled staff, stock outages, diminished funds, difficulty tracking patient data, cultural biases towards western medicine and a lack...Go to contribution page
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Christine Milchram15/05/2017, 15:30Economic and societal impact of technologyResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Smart energy systems are considered an important enabler in the transition to more sustainable energy systems, because they support the integration of rising shares of renewable energy sources into energy systems. “Smart” means that energy networks are equipped with ICT technologies to account for higher volatility and a larger number of decentral production sites that come with wind and solar...Go to contribution page
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Mr Asghar Jabalbarezisarbijan (Qeshm Voltage)15/05/2017, 15:30Nowadays all companies around the word are considering about their costs in different parts. They are searching for different ways to decrease their overhead costs. So most of the big companies moved their product lines to some countries such as China, Bangladesh, Vietnam and India to access to the cheaper employee (manpower). One of the important and high cost parts in the companies is...Go to contribution page
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Ms Maricela del Carmen Castillo Granda (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú), Dr Marta Lucia Tostes Vieira (Management Science Academic Department, PUCP)15/05/2017, 15:30Small and medium enterprises and innovationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Peru is renowned as one of the seventeen megadiverse countries in the world (Conservation International,1998). It is estimated to hold 25,000 flora species, 30% of which are endemic. This extraordinary biological diversity offers endless possibilities for its sustainable use which can be enhanced even more through the generation of added value coming from the investigation to generate...Go to contribution page
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Dr Dalcio Roberto dos Reis (Positivo University), Dr Fabrízio Meller (Universidade Estadual de Maringá - Brazil)15/05/2017, 15:52Small and medium enterprises and innovationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Introduction: In this paper, we have tried to contribute to the theoretical perspective of organizational institutionalism in relation to the result of innovation organizations. We have investigated, under the conditioning of business models, the influence of environmental pressures on innovative result of industries and companies in the metal-mechanic industry that has operated in the two...Go to contribution page
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Dr mehrdad Heidari orejloo (the director of applied research department (KWPA))15/05/2017, 15:52This article has been deduced from the results of research activities of Khuzestan Water and Power Authority Company (KWPA). The first issue is the non-functionality of many research projects being done in KWPA during these twenty years. Given that this company has always had the first rank among the subsidiary companies of Energy ministry from the perspective of research analysis, the above...Go to contribution page
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Dr Gabriela Scur (FEI University)15/05/2017, 15:52Product and service developmentResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Servitization is a business model that started in the 1980s and has quickly been used in corporate strategy, peaking with the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT). By the way, there is a crossover with information and communication technologies which treat them as a synonymy (Baines et al., 2016). Manufacturers have been shifting their focus in order to offer services jointly with their...Go to contribution page
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Dr Andréa Paula Segatto (Federal University of Paraná), Dr Fernanda Salvador Alves (Federal University of Paraná)15/05/2017, 15:52Economic and societal impact of technologyPresentation only (Category B)The innovative capacity of a country or region is conditioned by the result of the relations between economic, political and social actors, with local cultural and institutional conditions (CASSIOLATO, LASTRES, 2008). In Brazil, such capacity depends on which region occurs and how the National Innovation Systems (NIS) policies are managed. Interrelated institutions that contribute to the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Maged S Morcos (The British University in Egypt (BUE))15/05/2017, 16:14There are a lot of reasons that contribute to the failure of projects and their systems. Among those reasons, one that is very significant to project failure is the lack of project managers to view the project as one whole system that need to be studied for its reliability. In this recommended reliability study, not only physical resources are considered in the analysis but the human...Go to contribution page
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Mr Arnesh Telukdarie (University of Johannesburg)15/05/2017, 16:14Economic and societal impact of technologyResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The ability to predict the supply and demand of global energy, water and resources is a challenge. Specific models have been researched for individual logistics. This research focuses on the application of system engineering together with agent based models, developing country specific supply and demand networks. These networks are adopted as multi-variable conduit with the ability to predict...Go to contribution page
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Mr Mazwi Dzapasi (Department of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University)15/05/2017, 16:14Future thinking, strategy development, and theory of technologyResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs comprise of 17 goals that integrate the three dimensions (economic, social and environmental) of sustainable development, with one of the key objectives being to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all. UHC forms part of the targets concerned with population health and well-being under SDG...Go to contribution page
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Ms Manon Enjolras (Université de Lorraine - ERPI Laboratory)15/05/2017, 16:14Small and medium enterprises and innovationPresentation only (Category B)Innovation and Export are generally considered as two different activities, but being in relation to each other. Indeed, a link between innovation and export was identified both within the scientific literature as with the bodies specialized in the support for companies. The research works studying this link are plentyful and the advantages of a coupling of the support services concerning...Go to contribution page
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Dr Sara Grobbelaar (Department of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University)15/05/2017, 16:36Small and medium enterprises and innovationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Various social issues, which include unemployment, homelessness and skill shortages, exist in especially developing country contexts. In the same environment as the social issues, there are often resources (physical and non-physical) available that are not utilised to their full capacity. Theoretically certain idle resources could potentially be applied in different ways in order to address a...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Maged S Morcos (The British University in Egypt (BUE))15/05/2017, 16:36Managers of organisations are often faced with non-structured problems which involve quite a lot of uncertainties in their process. The reason is that organisations have not been recognised as dynamic and open and the stochastic nature of their complex systems is not fully appreciated. Hence, there is ample need for developing a tool that applies reliability techniques that are normally used...Go to contribution page
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Prof. David Walwyn (University of Pretoria)15/05/2017, 16:36Management of technology in developing countriesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)It is widely acknowledged that the current patterns of energy supply and consumption are not sustainable (COP21). As a result, the global community has adopted an ambitious programme, known as the Two Degrees Scenario (2DS), to decarbonise energy supply and reduce substantially its dependence on fossil fuels. This programme has many social and technological challenges. For instance,...Go to contribution page
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Dr Monica Cariola (IRCRES-CNR National Research Council of Italy)15/05/2017, 16:36Economic and societal impact of technologyResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)**Introduction and purpose** - Italian fishing fleet is second in Europe for number of vessels and total power and fourth for gross tonnage (Cariola et al., 2014). The bottom trawling fishing with otter boards represents the 19% of the Italian fishing fleets and is the most impacting for the environment because is both a high energy intensive, with important fuel costs, and a high...Go to contribution page
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Franz Androsch (voestalpine Stahl)16/05/2017, 09:00
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Karl-Heinz LEITNER (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)16/05/2017, 09:30
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Ms Eunkyeong Oh (Department of Graduate School of Management of Technology (MOT), Sungkyunkwan University)16/05/2017, 10:30Management of specific emerging technologiesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Monitoring of emerging technologies needs indicators which are more sensitive to changes in context and time (Porter, 1991). To this purpose, organizations have depended on qualitative expert judgment, but it has increasingly suffered from reduced sensitivity and accuracy (Ranjbar and Tavakoli, 2015). A better way of monitoring is needed. As either alternative or supplement to expert judgment,...Go to contribution page
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Mr Daniel Kiel (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair of Industrial Management)16/05/2017, 10:30New business and investement models in the digital worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Today, manufacturing companies have to face multifaceted challenges like shortened technology and innovation cycles and the necessity to offer customized products at the cost of a large-scale production. One possible solution to address these challenges is represented by the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). This proceeding digitized connection of industrial manufacturing, also known as...Go to contribution page
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Dr Monica Cariola (IRCRES-CNR National Research Council of Italy)16/05/2017, 10:30Green technologies and sustainabilityResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)**Introduction/purpose** - The study presented in this paper origins from the European Project “Benthis” (WP7, Task 7.4. - Subtask 7.4.4. - Innovative management scenario’s), and it is aimed to analyze costs and benefits of the substitution of otter boards built with traditional technology with innovative and more sustainable ones in bottom trawl fishery, in the Mediterranean Adriatic Sea,...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Pretorius Jan-Harm C (University Of Johannesburg), Dr Vermeulen Andre (University Of Johannesburg)16/05/2017, 10:30Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Organisations in South Africa ever more than before need Total Quality Management (TQM) in terms of organisational culture and supply chain system thinking in providing outstanding products and services to their customers. Although TQM has been proposed to improve organisational performance it is perceived that some organisations have not accomplished much over the years. Accomplishing TQM...Go to contribution page
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Mr ahmed mostafa (Nile University)16/05/2017, 10:52Management of technology in developing countriesPresentation only (Category B)Egypt Investment Map Egypt Atlas of economic complexity will be a modified and customised version of Harvard atlas online complexity index. Harvard atlas online complexity index is a powerful interactive tool that enables users to visualise a country’s total trade, track how these dynamics change over time and explore growth opportunities for more than a hundred countries worldwide. Egypt...Go to contribution page
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Mr Jebalbarezi Sarbijan Asghar (Qeshm Voltage Company(Chairman of the Board), Tehran, Iran)16/05/2017, 10:52Small and medium enterprises and innovationPresentation only (Category B)Small and medium agencies are considered as one of the most effective reason in developing of society and economic in any country. This research is studying about the patterns of cooperation between small or medium companies with big companies. The object in this research is practical and the method is descriptive. All data are collected from the library and authoritative printed and digital...Go to contribution page
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Prof. HSINNING SU (Graduate Institute of Technology Management, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan), Prof. PEICHUN LEE (International School of Technology and Management, Feng Chia University)16/05/2017, 10:52Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldPresentation only (Category B)This paper explores technology resilience of high-tech industry by examining the process from technology decline to resilience. There are three research questions raised and answered by this paper: 1) Why some high-tech industries enter technological crises while others are less vulnerable? 2) Why some high-tech industries suffer more from technological crises? 3) Why some high-tech industries...Go to contribution page
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Prof. LEE-YUN PAN (National Yunlin University of Science and Technology)16/05/2017, 10:52New business and investement models in the digital worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Nowadays, there are lots of Clicks and Mortar models. Brands can earn benefits through cross-channel integration, so they develop cross-channel model from online to offline to meet consumers' requirements. According to MIC's report, consumers prefer to search online to compare the goods and shop in a physical store. The reason is that consumers can get goods immediately, save shipping fee,...Go to contribution page
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Dr Rene Albertus (University of the Western Cape)16/05/2017, 11:14Management of technology in developing countriesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Public Private Partnership (PPP) project in the public sector of South Africa have come under major scrutiny in the last decade due to overspending and the failure of PPP projects being completed timely. The ruling party government have been under major scrutiny by the media, specifically the Treasury to be held accountable for the mismanagement of public funds. Opposition Parties on behalf of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Thel Augusto Monteiro (Unimep (Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba))16/05/2017, 11:14Small and medium enterprises and innovationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)This paper presents an analysis of concepts covering the use of technology, the relationship between technological change in e-commerce and buying behavior of digital consumers. In this study, the relationship between theory and practice is derived from knowledge acquired in four research projects conducted over the past six years, with the first two in Brazil and the last two in Mexico. The...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Mauricio Camargo (University of Lorraine - ERPI Lab)16/05/2017, 11:14New business and investement models in the digital worldPresentation only (Category B)Connecting people" is a common expression nowadays, often repeated in digital companies' communication strategies. Beyond the catchy slogan, however, connecting people and connecting things has become a real challenge for companies wanting to stay competitive. The fact is, we are seeing the end of the "mad", isolated inventor, replaced by collective and collaborative creation. In this context...Go to contribution page
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Mr Abhichata Chaisakdiyod (School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China)16/05/2017, 11:14Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Innovation is commonly recognized as the practice of implementing an idea which wholly encompasses series of processes in a firm. At the middle of the series, manufacture resides and connects R&D with marketing activities. We regard that manufacture acts out ‘a bottle neck’ which can either leverage or retard a firm’s innovation output, depending on its capability. This paper, therefore,...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Carl Marnewick (University of Johannesburg)16/05/2017, 11:36New business and investement models in the digital worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Companies engage in outsourcing when it enters a contractual agreement to source a particular expertise from another company with the intent to meet specific business objectives. In outsourcing agreements, the client transfers completely or partially the operational responsibility related to a set of processes within a specific scope and over a set period of time. When the outsourced processes...Go to contribution page
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Mr Vincent BOLY (Equipe de Recherche sur les Processus Innovatifs / Université de Lorraine)16/05/2017, 11:36Small and medium enterprises and innovationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Technology management is a major concern for IAMOT community, it deals among other with observing company strategies and developing management approaches to help top managers in the definition and valorization of technologies allowing the development of the company. In this research technology is considered as a complex system of knowledge and know-how supported by equipment (Yanez and Kahlil,...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Jina Kang (Seoul National University)16/05/2017, 11:36Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldPresentation only (Category B)In high tech industries, the constant threat of technological obsolescence forces companies to renew their core technological portfolio in order to build up and maintain competitive advantages. Due to limitations of internal R&D, many firms employ external knowledge sourcing strategies to facilitate changes of their technological portfolio. Among the various external knowledge sourcing...Go to contribution page
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Ms Conghui Yin (Chinese-German Institute for Intellectuall Property, School of Management, HuaZhong University of Science and Technology)16/05/2017, 11:36Management of specific emerging technologiesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Cloud computing is major technological revolution which represents the future development of ICT industry. It has gained vast attention and been actively promoted by governments, enterprises, research institutions and industry alliances around the world due to its technological advancement and availability. This study seeks to investigate the technological trends, competition status, key...Go to contribution page
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Mr Franz Rotter (voestalpine AG)16/05/2017, 13:00Digitization is amongst the most important topics for voestalpine. In this presentation, Mr. Rotter will highlight voestalpine Special Steel’s Digital Journey approach, a focused long-term change effort that transforms the business for the future. Starting from the actual changes in the environment and the necessity to adapt to it, the presenter will provide an inside view on how voestalpine...Go to contribution page
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Hamidreza Amirinia16/05/2017, 13:30
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Mr Corro van Waveren (University of Pretoria)16/05/2017, 13:30Project and program managementResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The South African construction industry is on a decline since the global recession that preceded the 2010 FIFA world cup infrastructure developments in South Africa. Although the post project review is a common process of identifying areas of improvement on projects for project-based organisations to become or remain sustainable, the temporary nature of projects most often restricts the...Go to contribution page
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Mr Rian Rian (Department of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University, South Africa)16/05/2017, 13:30Technology transfer, marketing and commercializationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Technology transfer is a vital structured procedure for developing nations as it provides the opportunity to implement a technology that would otherwise be unobtainable due to economic, social, political and other constraints. In the highly technical fields of ICT and healthcare, technology transfer could play a critical role in the development and widespread implementation of various devices...Go to contribution page
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Mr Mostafa Safdar Ranjbar (Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran)16/05/2017, 13:30Management of technology in developing countriesPresentation only (Category B)The different studies have been done by researchers about regional innovation models. The research objective is the identifying of the effective factors for developing information and communication technology in Iran regions. Based on the literature review, 6 dimensions and 26 factors were identified as the preliminary theoretical pattern. ICT as the main case were analyzed by theoretical...Go to contribution page
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Dr Kai-Ying Chan (University of Pretoria)16/05/2017, 13:30Small and medium enterprises and innovationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are widely accepted as the drivers of economic growth. SMEs depend on innovation for survival. The literature indicates that innovation performance can be improved through collaboration with other organisations. For SMEs, however, spending valuable resources collaborating with organisations that do not add value, could lead to a decrease in innovation...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Josef Fröhlich (AIT), Dr Marianne Hörlesberger (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH)16/05/2017, 13:50
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Dr XIN LIU (HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)16/05/2017, 13:52Technology transfer, marketing and commercializationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)China has already been ranked number one in the number of patent applications in the world, however the rate of patent industrialization in China is still less than 10%. This research firstly constructs and analyzes the theoretical relevance between the two concepts of industry patent propensity and patent industrialization applicability qualitatively, thus providing a new research path...Go to contribution page
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Dr Andréa Paula Segatto (Federal University of Paraná), Dr Fernanda Salvador Alves (Federal University of Paraná)16/05/2017, 13:52Management of technology in developing countriesPresentation only (Category B)With consensus objectives, organizations established cooperation to optimize benefits, minimize replicated services, reduce costs, and enlarge professional networks. Cooperation optimizes capabilities and generates scale’s economies. Therefore, organizations develop relational capabilities, which are, according to Alves (2015) the creation and the combination, of common resources, intra and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Siebert Benade (University of Pretoria)16/05/2017, 13:52Project and program managementResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)**Introduction and Purpose:** Most work is defined and executed as projects nowadays. Business strategy implementation is typically done via project portfolios (not functional lines anymore). Deliverables of projects, i.e. products, systems and services have become more complicated and complex. These are due to rapidly changing technologies, globilisation, mass customisation, uncertain...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Wei-Hsin Hsiang (Tatung University)16/05/2017, 13:52Small and medium enterprises and innovationPresentation only (Category B)For nations’ economic development and fortune creation, entrepreneurship has an important role. Under this situation, the government introduces regulatory reform and open more entrepreneurial courses to boost entrepreneurship. Recently, an event called “startup weekend” is popular in the global entrepreneurial area. The government divisions, private organizations and universities recently...Go to contribution page
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Dr S. Farhang Fassihi16/05/2017, 14:10
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Mr Riaan van der Watt (University of Pretroia, Graduate School of Technology Management)16/05/2017, 14:14Technology transfer, marketing and commercializationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)System Dynamics models have previously been used to describe the adoption of new technology in Healthcare. JB Homer and later KL Knoll developed such models based on case studies involving implantable devices and antibiotic pharmaceutical product. In both cases the technologies studied were of a therapeutic nature and the use-event was linked to an individual patient (single use). The process...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Adriana Paola Sanchez Rico (Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation of Argentina)16/05/2017, 14:14Knowledge managementResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation of Argentina MINCYT, with the aim of creating inputs to facilitate strategic planning processes at the national, territorial and sectorial levels, set itself the objective of establishing Competitive Intelligence as a National Policy for Science, Technology and Innovation. The Ministry recognizes the strategic value of technical...Go to contribution page
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Dr Adriana Roseli Wunsch Takahashi (UFPR), Dr Marcia May (UFPR)16/05/2017, 14:14Small and medium enterprises and innovationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Although the themes of dynamic capabilities and performance are abundant in literature of large firms, there is still a research gap regarding the understanding of dynamic capabilities in the context of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises - SMEs, representing a potential subject to be explored. Several researches had already explored dynamic capabilities by the combination with different...Go to contribution page
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Mr Anders Kvarnemo (School of Engineering, Jönköping University, Sweden)16/05/2017, 14:14Project and program managementResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Project portfolio management (PPM) is central for project-based firms to achieve structure and prioritization among multiple projects. Competitive pressures, emergence of new technology and constantly changing customer demand imply a dynamic nature of PPM that calls for adjustments to different situations. This paper investigates PPM challenges that a company in the lighting industry face...Go to contribution page
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Dr Andréa Paula Segatto (Federal University of Paraná), Dr Fernanda Salvador Alves (Federal University of Paraná)16/05/2017, 14:36Management of technology in developing countriesPresentation only (Category B)Cooperations are an agreement of two or more organizations, for resources and knowledge sharing, with mutual benefit. Partnerships can also solve complex problems and transfer technology, bringing yield and competitive advantage to firms. However, building and maintaining them is not an easy activity. Therefore, they need to be properly managed, structured and understood. By properly managing...Go to contribution page
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Nicole Wohltran (Montanuniversität Leoben)16/05/2017, 14:36Technology transfer, marketing and commercializationPresentation only (Category B)This talk will give a comprehensive overview about the first fundamental and holistic training for knowledge & technology transfer experts (brokers) and institutional intermediaries. It will describe in detail the new ISO 17024 certified training program and the reflections (and evaluations) of the trainees from five Austrian Universities. The training program was carried out for the first...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Laure Morel (University of Lorraine - ERPI Lab)16/05/2017, 14:36Green technologies and sustainabilityResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Environmental consciousness has drastically evolved over the last few decades. The consequences of pollution, raw material depletion, global warming... are now widespread throughout society. Numerous tools and guides have been developed to help or strongly encourage companies to deal with sustainable development principles, including International Policy Frameworks, Codes of Conduct,...Go to contribution page
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Dr Mauricio Camargo (Lorraine university, ERPI)16/05/2017, 14:36Small and medium enterprises and innovationResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)In literature, several works develop methodologies in order to evaluate the innovation capability (IC) of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) according to a set of actions performed by the firm, called innovations actions (Adams et al., 2006; Chiesa et al., 1996; Guan et al., 2016). A good example is the methodology proposed by the ERPI research team of the University of Lorraine in France,...Go to contribution page
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Alexander POGANY (BMVIT)16/05/2017, 15:30
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Mr Kwete Mwana Nyandongo (University of Johannesburg)16/05/2017, 15:30Project and program managementResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Many organisations have adopted Project Portfolio Management (PPM) processes to improve the implementation of their strategies, however few organisations have achieved tangible returns on investment (ROI) from PPM. Although PPM stakeholders are aware and understand that PPM enables the achievement of strategic objectives of the organisation, they admit to not fully being able to understand its...Go to contribution page
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Mr Pedram Pourasgari (Technology Studies Institute)16/05/2017, 15:30Management of technology in developing countriesPresentation only (Category B)Knowledge-Based Companies Supporting Law is one of the main supporting programs in Iran for the purpose of accelerating development of technology and innovation in national level. In order to achieve best results in the process of implementation of the program, a product list including a classification of technology areas and products has been developed. After a while, the product list became...Go to contribution page
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Jacqueline Schlögl (Montanuniversitaet Leoben)16/05/2017, 15:30Wikipedia is by for the most popular website and one of the most widely viewed sites of any kind of the world. Wikis also became a collaborative tool in many companies to collect, organise, share, review and approve various forms of information. Internal know-how can be handled without loss of information to external persons. Links to open literature, standards, internal reports or documents...Go to contribution page
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Mr Mthandeni Langa (University of Johannesburg)16/05/2017, 15:52Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)In this article, it is argued that the lack of consistent information technology (IT) and organisational strategies heightens the proclivity to cancel IT initiatives. Organisational strategy loosely conveys a compounded perspective pertaining to business and organisational strategies. Business, IT and organisational strategies logically hinge on efficient enterprise IT integration concepts...Go to contribution page
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Dr Sergio Bulgacov (FGV EAESP)16/05/2017, 15:52The literature continues to voice many doubts regarding knowledge management (Gasparini, 2014) for the development of dynamic capabilities (King, 2009; Frost, 2014) and their relationship with the ability of business models to create value (Osterwalder, Pigneur, Tucci, 2005). It remains to discover how to develop this management through practices involving knowledge indicators for strategic...Go to contribution page
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Dr Marta Lucia Tostes Vieira (PUCP)16/05/2017, 15:52Management of technology in developing countriesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The promotion of innovation in services is essential to improve the productivity of this sector and that of the economy as a whole, not only because it has been a means to encourage growth and equity in developed economies (OCDE, 2010) but also because it represents around of 60% of both total employment and total aggregated value, in Latin America and the Caribbean (Rubalcaba, 2015). The...Go to contribution page
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Mr Diego Monteiro (INPE)16/05/2017, 15:52Project and program managementResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Nowadays, technology has become an integral part of the daily routine. As a result of the phenomenon, the demand for quality and speed in regarding software production has been increasing, it is understood that generally preventing problems is far less resource requiring than solving problems. Failures in the software development cycle or software maintenance can be costly. Those costs may...Go to contribution page
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Dr Raoni Bagno (Federal University of Minas Gerais)16/05/2017, 16:14Project and program managementResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Roadmapping frameworks are said to provide a common reference point for linking strategy and innovation (S&I) tools. It has been argued that there is no incompatibility between these tools and roadmapping. Therefore, combining the development of roadmaps with S&I tools would support an integrated approach to S&I processes. However, it is not clear how diverse S&I tools can be meaningfully...Go to contribution page
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Dr zeyu xing (School of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University)16/05/2017, 16:14Abstract: High-tech industries, which are based on intellectually-intensive technologies and integrate multidisciplinary technological achievements, are the strategic leading industries of the Chinese national economy. The statistical range of the Chinese high-tech industry includes five categories: aerospace manufacture, electronics and communications equipment manufacture, computer and...Go to contribution page
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Ms Nathalia Pufal (UFRGS)16/05/2017, 16:14Management of technology in developing countriesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Economic development involves change and therefore the entrepreneur figures, as gap and input filler, to be its prime mover. The recognition of the importance of the entrepreneurs and the markets in which they operate has led many countries to foster entrepreneurship. Within this context, entrepreneur may be perceived either as an adjective that solely reflects a behavior or as the economic...Go to contribution page
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Ms Yujin Jeong (Dongguk University)16/05/2017, 16:36Future thinking, strategy development, and theory of technologyPresentation only (Category B)Developing a risk-adaptive technology roadmap (TRM) through bayesian network and association rule mining under deep uncertainty Yujin Jeong and Byungun Yoon Firms always face rapidly changing and complex environment, which is carefully dealt with because it is directly connected with success and failure in business. Under this circumstance, shorter technology life cycle and higher...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Zahra Orooji (Ports & Maritime Organization of Iran)16/05/2017, 16:36One of the most important challenges in each organization is to achieving the most valuable targets and goals by using employees' performance and innovation with a focus on long-term strategy planning. In this paper we had shown how by using Strategic Management perfectly in the first steps and Imposing Managing by objective system in the downer layer in Ports and Maritime Organization, all...Go to contribution page
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Mr Diego Monteiro (INPE)16/05/2017, 16:36Communication is one the cornerstones of humanity. We can communicate orally or with gestures and more recently we started communicating via writing. This written communication evolved with our technology. We came to a point where it is difficult to imagine our lives without social networks, in which written messages are core. Such fact is interconnected with the always increasing need and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Claudia Jimenez (Proffesor, National University of Colombia)16/05/2017, 16:36Knowledge managementPresentation only (Category B)The amount of available data has been increasing at a very high speed in the arising digital world. As ever, people wants to get the most possible profit of data. In this sense, in recent years, technologies of Business Intelligence (BI) have been receiving special attention because we need to convert data into useful information and new knowledge. Data Mining (DM) constitutes the core of any...Go to contribution page
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Josef FRÖHLICH (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)17/05/2017, 09:00
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AHMED Osman (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, Washington, USA)17/05/2017, 09:30
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Dr BING LI (School of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University), Mr YUBO LI (School of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University)17/05/2017, 10:30Future demands for work skills in the digital worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)A large amount of data produced in the Internet every day has attributed to the rapid development of mobile Internet technology, the wide application of E-commerce, the popularity of intelligent mobile equipment and so on. Meanwhile, these data involve a mess of unstructured data, such as text data and multimedia data. However, the problem to be solved at the present is how to acquire...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Cesar Goncalves Neto (COPPEAD/UFRJ)17/05/2017, 10:30Management of technology in developing countriesPresentation only (Category B)The economic and social importance of technology used in industrial operations and services requires the process of choice of technology to be done carefully. In the health area - as it is indicated by frequent OECD reports, the US government and private companies that provide health services - the concern of public and private managers with the quality and costs of services provided to...Go to contribution page
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Dr Anthon Botha (Graduate School of Technology Management, Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and IT, University of Pretoria and TechnoScene (Pty) Ltd, South Africa)17/05/2017, 10:30Future thinking, strategy development, and theory of technologyPresentation only (Category B)Strategic planning and technology management have become part of executive training, but very few opportunities are available to prepare executives for imagining the future. The future lies beyond strategy and Future Thinking shapes the landscape on which enterprises of tomorrow will exist. The future is not predictable; neither is it pre-determined. This opens the possibility of designing a...Go to contribution page
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Mr Diego Monteiro (INPE)17/05/2017, 10:30Management of specific emerging technologiesPresentation only (Category B)Spatiotemporal data is everywhere, being gathered from different devices such as Earth Observation and GPS satellites, sensor networks and mobile gadgets. Data collected from those devices might contain valuable information about different subjects, such as weather monitoring or mobility. Among these themes, moving object trajectory data has a particular interest in this work. Moving object...Go to contribution page
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Mr Abimelek Shikongo Amunjela (Department of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University)17/05/2017, 10:52Management of technology in developing countriesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Energy and water consumptions are major cost points for large buildings, such as manufacturing plants, hospitals and office complexes. The drive for sustainability and efficiency, when considering energy and water usage in the building management sector, has resulted in the increased importance of the effective management of such resources. Hospitals are complex, resource intensive facilities,...Go to contribution page
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Ms Barbara Mayer (FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences, Austria, Institute Industrial Management), Mr Ernst Pessl (FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences, Austria, Institute Industrial Management), Dr Sabrina Sorko (FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences, Austria, Institute Industrial Management)17/05/2017, 10:52Future demands for work skills in the digital worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Due to volatile and fast moving markets, increasing competition as well as more complex products and production, industrial companies are facing increasingly intricate challenges. Experts are talking about the fourth industrial (r)evolution, also called Industry 4.0 (I4.0). I4.0 focuses on an intelligent and transdisciplinary world in which smart factories represent the connection between...Go to contribution page
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Ms Yoon Chung Kim (KISTEP)17/05/2017, 10:52Future thinking, strategy development, and theory of technologyPresentation only (Category B)Artificial Intelligence(AI) has drawn significant attention in our society and many have high hopes of what AI will bring, such as improvement in productivity and quality. However, there are also growing concerns and warnings of what the technology will bring, such as mass unemployment from job substitution or social inequality. Thus, we have conducted Technology Assessment(TA) of artificial...Go to contribution page
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Mr Rami Darwish (KTH -The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm)17/05/2017, 10:52Management of specific emerging technologiesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Business model (BM) design is essential to accommodate new technologies to reach full commercial scale. However, BM design is difficult (Teece 2010; Chesbrough 2010). The state of the art literature on business models scrutinized BM design sources of difficulty from an intra-organizational perspective (Sund et al. 2016; Chesbrough 2010; Teece 2010; Osterwalder et al. 2005; Amit & Zott 2001)....Go to contribution page
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Ms Esther Basson (Department of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University)17/05/2017, 11:14Product and service developmentResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)As populations in developing countries continue to grow, and the demand for healthcare services increase, questions frequently arise regarding the allocation of resources towards the development of new healthcare infrastructure. In order to balance resources between the tiers of the healthcare facility hierarchy\footnote{Possible facilities in the hierarchy include clinics,...Go to contribution page
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Raphael Beckers (Prostep AG)17/05/2017, 11:14Product and service developmentResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)This paper provides a novel approach for agile Digital Transformation of Enterprise Architecture Models in engineering collaboration in the automotive industry. Emergent behavior is behavior of a system that does not depend on its individual parts, but on their relationships to one another. Such behavior exists in biological systems, physical systems as well as in the human performance. It...Go to contribution page
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Mr Mohamed Azzam (Federation of the Egyptian Chambers of Commerce, IT General Division), Mr Nezar Sami (Nile University), Prof. Tarek Khalil (Nile University)17/05/2017, 11:14Future thinking, strategy development, and theory of technologyResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Everything is going digital around us! Disruptive technologies and their disruptive use models are creating a new world and a different future. Over the last few years, the creation and utilization of technologies have played a critical role to improve the life quality of people, advance economies, and open new horizons for individuals, businesses, and even nations around the world. This is...Go to contribution page
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Dr Marta Lucia Tostes Vieira (Management Science Academic Department, PUCP)17/05/2017, 11:14Future demands for work skills in the digital worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)According to the Global Information Technology Report 2016 from the World Economic Forum, Peru, based on the networked readiness index, is in the 90th position out of 139 countries (World Economic Forum, 2016). Regarding education, the schools are to connect to the optical fiber network by means of a wireless access net thus enabling the inclusion to the worldwide Internet and the access to...Go to contribution page
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Prof. David Bennett (Chalmers University of Technology)17/05/2017, 11:36Future thinking, strategy development, and theory of technologyResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)This paper investigates how medium-size engineering service companies working traditionally in national markets have engaged with challenges of globalization and competition from multinationals. The Scandinavian region has many smaller domestic engineering companies in the industry, which are under pressure in their established national and wider international markets. The paper uses strategic...Go to contribution page
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Dr Paulo ZAWISLAK (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)17/05/2017, 11:36Management of technology in developing countriesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Innovation has always been part of all economy’s realities, although distinctly characterized. In the case of low-tech industries, innovation appears differently from the high-tech ones, as they have traditional characteristics that deal with highly diffused and mature technologies (Reichert, 2015). Moreover, they usually adapt external technologies into their manufacturing processes, avoiding...Go to contribution page
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Dr Noritomo Ouchi (Aoyama Gakuin University)17/05/2017, 11:36Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The strategy utilizing direct and indirect network effects has attracted attention. Direct network effects mean that the value of a good for the consumer is positively influenced by an increase in the number of users. Indirect network effects mean that the value of a good for the consumer is positively influenced by an attractive offer of complements. In markets with network effects, the first...Go to contribution page
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Mr Julio Rodriguez Rey (Universidad Nacional de Tucumán - Centro de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación Industrial)17/05/2017, 11:36Knowledge managementResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)In this paper we analyze the proposal of a Master degree offered by a network of five National Universities belonging to the CODINOA Network (Council of Engineering Deans of the NOA), regarding the subject of Management of Technology And innovation (MOT). The Industrial tissue of the region is composed mainly by SMEs. According to the bibliography, under these conditions, important...Go to contribution page
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Marco PREUSS (Kaspersky Europe)17/05/2017, 13:00
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Mr Arnesh Telukdarie (University of Johannesburg)17/05/2017, 13:30Industrial and manufacturing technologiesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Energy modelling is not a new concept and has always been utilised in its most basic form as energy balances. The oil crisis of the 1970’s focused attention to the benefits of energy modelling [1, 2]. Energy modelling application has since become a norm from governmental institutions to industries to policy makers for; analysis and optimisation of current energy systems, forecasting energy...Go to contribution page
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Dr JAQUELINE DA SILVA ALBINO17/05/2017, 13:30New business and investement models in the digital worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The adoption of digital tools to facilitate the business and the daily life of its users has long been adapted in people's lives. In the transition to the digital world, they gain the most innovative business models. The sale of products on electronic sites, meetings through interactive media are increasingly frequent. Most of the activities are done through a mobile device, where applications...Go to contribution page
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Ching-Chen Lee (Yuan Ze University, College of Management, Taiwan)17/05/2017, 13:30Legal and security issues for digital processesPresentation only (Category B)Big data has become one of the most prominent technologies over the past years in all science and technology domains and has been everywhere applied in industries and organizations. Big data analytics helps for increasing executive efficiency and effectiveness, speeding up decision making, identifying new trends, developing new products, providing services, and generating revenue. Big data...Go to contribution page
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Mr Torben Tambo (Aarhus University)17/05/2017, 13:30Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Information technology (IT) is at the heart of digitisation of existing business models and dominates in the innovation efforts of many industries. IT has until now in many ways been regarded as exempted from the structuration and automation represented by IT. The IT4IT framework released by The Open Group in October 2015 suggests to a major change. IT has to be governed and structured along...Go to contribution page
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Mr Guilherme Camboim (UFRGS)17/05/2017, 13:52Complexity of innovation systems in the future digital worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)In the paradigm emerging in the twenty-first century, focused on the knowledge economy, elements such as collaborative actions, conscious consuming, sustainability, health, mobility, accessibility and connectivity are main drivers. This new paradigm requires more than the industrial organization of the traditional economy, which has been pushed out to urban peripheries, in industrial...Go to contribution page
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Mr Bruno Lindorfer (BUSINESS UPPER AUSTRIA)17/05/2017, 13:52Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)In the paper the two aspects of Management of Technologies (“MoT”) are lined out: a) Management of Technologies for Regions and Countries b) Management of the Technology Portfolio for Enterprises Strategic MoT for regions and countries is done to reinforce the competitiveness of the region in the ever harder global completion to ensure employment, the standard of living, social welfare and...Go to contribution page
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Mr Marcelo Homrich (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)17/05/2017, 13:52New business and investement models in the digital worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Crowdfunding is a way to make new ventures and enterprises become financially viable, through small payments made by individuals, since the beginning of the 21st century. It emerged from the concepts of crowdsourcing and microfinance, and only due to the evolution of the internet to the so-called Web 2.0. Since its inception, crowdfunding platforms have already distributed billions of dollars...Go to contribution page
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Raphael Beckers (N/A)17/05/2017, 13:52Industrial and manufacturing technologiesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)This paper provides a novel approach for comprehensive 3D measurement data management in complex process chains in the automotive industry to fulfil technological requirements of Industry 4.0. A variety of measurement methods and equipment are used in the automotive industry today to ensure the specified level of product quality. The multitude of devices and processes found in the...Go to contribution page
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Mr Romulo De Paiva (FEPI)17/05/2017, 14:14Complexity of innovation systems in the future digital worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Digital spaces and collaborative tools to stimulate the use of collective intelligence, focusing on benefits with human innovation, to find new solutions to the problems or even to predict them, characterize a Smart City. Therefore, what are the basic constituent elements of a place considered intelligent? Which of these elements are found in the cities of Minas Gerais? This research is not...Go to contribution page
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Christina Koenig (Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT)17/05/2017, 14:14Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The application of effective, on the company’s needs adapted technologies is a key factor for competitiveness and economic success. To ensure an early identification of emerging technologies, of changes in existing technologies or of related changes in the market's structures and participants many companies conduct technology intelligence (TI) activities. Technology monitoring is one base...Go to contribution page
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Mr Mostafa Safdari Ranjbar (Allameh Tabataba'i University-Tehran-Iran)17/05/2017, 14:14Management of technology in developing countriesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Introduction During last decades a large amount of efforts have been done by developing countries in order to technological catch-up and acquiring essential capabilities for manufacturing complex products and systems. As a considerable case, Iran has been doing a lot of efforts in order to acquire key knowledge and capabilities for manufacturing and gas turbines and it achieved favorable...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Majlinda Zhegu (Université du Québec à Montréal)17/05/2017, 14:14Complexity of innovation systems in the future digital worldPresentation only (Category B)Digital age is on its way to upheaval the science system. Deep transformations are pushing toward the openness of the production and the dissemination of scientific knowledge. This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the transformations related to the multisided digital platforms. They have emerged as a driver of digital transformations. Multisided platforms function as intermediary devices...Go to contribution page
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Ms Tatenda Chisi (Department of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University)17/05/2017, 14:36Economic and societal impact of technologyPresentation only (Category B)Over the past several decades the capability of m-Health technologies, and more specifically wearable technologies, to improve access to primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare services has been clearly demonstrated. Recently, there has been a growing use of sensors for remote monitoring of medical parameters and lifestyle applications. Sensors are commonly used for detecting, transmitting...Go to contribution page
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Ms Xi Yang (School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology)17/05/2017, 14:36Management of specific emerging technologiesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Emerging technologies like mobile broadband, SDN, cloud computing and big data lead to the rapid development of ICT (Information Communication Technology) industry. Graphene, as an emerging and promising technology, plays an unsubstitutable role in the ICT upstream material industry and serves as the most disruptive new materials in twenty-first century. At present, application products of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Krige Visser (University of Pretoria)17/05/2017, 14:36Industrial and manufacturing technologiesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Reliability and availability are important maintenance indicators for most physical assets. Availability is also an important indicator for the business enterprise since it directly affects the output of the production assets and therefore the profits for the company. Various maintenance concepts like Reliability-centred Maintenance (RCM) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) emphasize the...Go to contribution page
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Mr Daniel Kiel (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair of Industrial Management)17/05/2017, 14:36Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)“Industry 4.0” or the “Industrial Internet of Things” (IIoT) refers to a new paradigm of digitized and connected industrial manufacturing. Its core is based on Internet of Things technologies, which enable real-time capable, smart, horizontal and vertical interconnectedness of people, machines, objects as well as information and communication systems for the dynamic management of complex...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Elzbieta Krawczyk-Dembicka (Bialystok University of Technology)17/05/2017, 15:30Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Technology management is a crucial issue for any company; a technology applied to the company determines its competitiveness and long-term development. At the same time this is a field with many dilemmas and hard decisions for managers. An ability to operate effectively in this area eventually gives a company many advantages. The literature from this field proposes models and approaches, which...Go to contribution page
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Prof. PEICHUN LEE (International School of Technology and Management, Feng Chia University)17/05/2017, 15:30Complexity of innovation systems in the future digital worldPresentation only (Category B)When global selection forces a divergence between policy co-evolution with economic development and policy co-evolution with technological innovation. A true resilient industry protects itself by strategic adaptive processes for future selection, variation, and retention. These industries are sensitive to recognize various changes and adapt to them. Therefore, the relationship between policy...Go to contribution page
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Dr Minna Saunila (Lappeenranta University of Technology)17/05/2017, 15:30Product and service developmentResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Digitalization has brought extensive changes to businesses. The complex nature of the digital economy is characterized by various functions and provides global access to knowledge and information. It furthers transitions in the way people and organizations interact and behave. One of the current challenges facing businesses in digitalized world is how to engage and build longer-lasting and...Go to contribution page
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Mr Alexander Guzman (Ritsumeikan University)17/05/2017, 15:30The sustainability of traditional technologies employed in energy and chemical infrastructure brings a big challenge for our society. Making decisions related with safety of industrial infrastructure, the values of accidental risk are becoming relevant points for discussion. However the challenge is the reliability of the models employed to get the risk data. Such models usually involve large...Go to contribution page
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Dr Gita Surie (Adelphi University)17/05/2017, 15:52Complexity of innovation systems in the future digital worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The rapid adoption of e-commerce and digital technologies to disrupt brick and mortar businesses and transform industries is under way with far-reaching consequences. The globalization of industries has connected once isolated national innovation systems (NISs; Nelson, 1993; Lundvall, 2007) heightening both similarities and differences between countries. Digital technologies have allowed...Go to contribution page
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Kiyohiro Yamazaki (Chukyo University)17/05/2017, 15:52The purpose of this study is to examine how a firm without a fundamental technology gain competitive advantages. This research uses the fundamental technology as a key word. The fundamental technology is the technology that satisfies two requirements. One requirement is a technology for working the “basic function” provided by a product. Secondary, when each firm enters the market, its...Go to contribution page
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Mr Dane GOVENDER (University of Johannesburg)17/05/2017, 15:52Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Optimization of the steel industry in order to deliver on competitiveness includes many factors ranging from process improvements to strategic initiatives. This research focuses on a strategic approach with a focus on process specific initiatives. The strategic initiative relates to the two models of operations, Make-To-Stock (MTS) and Make-To-Order (MTO). This research focuses on...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Edgard Oliveira (Universidade de Brasília), Ms Maria Isabel Araújo Silva dos Santos (INSTITUTO MAUÁ DE PESQUISA E EDUCAÇÃO - MAUÁ-DF)17/05/2017, 15:52Modern society is experiencing the fourth Industrial Revolution, which demands managers to develop industrial development plans and re-industrialization efforts, in search for competition in a digitalized manner throughout the whole value chain. Digitalization is characterized by the integration and control of production, with the use of sensor and network connected devices, whereas physical...Go to contribution page
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Ms CRISTIANI FONTANELA (Universidade Comunitária da Região de Chapecó - UNOCHAPECÓ), Dr JAQUELINE DA SILVA ALBINO (Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso - UNEMAT), Ms Maria Isabel Araújo Silva dos Santos (INSTITUTO MAUÁ DE PESQUISA E EDUCAÇÃO - MAUÁ-DF)17/05/2017, 16:14Legal and security issues for digital processesPresentation only (Category B)The intensive use of Information Technology and Communications in contemporary society has provided advances and facilities in citizen relations with the Government, such as speed and a new configuration of cyberspace. However, frauds in the electronic environment are seen as a threat to organizations seeking to ensure access security and electronic procedures. Furthermore the Brazilian...Go to contribution page
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Mr Peng Qiu (PhD student)17/05/2017, 16:14Product and service developmentResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Abstract Following a sequence of oil price hikes in the 1970s, the USA needed to address the challenges of high-energy costs and inefficiencies in its use. Since the USA was by far the largest energy consumer As in the World and reliant on imported energy, the policy makers realized that in addition to the increasingly serious environmental pollution related to energy consumption, energy...Go to contribution page
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Mr Harald Wipfler (Graz University of Technology, Institute of General Management and Organization)17/05/2017, 16:14Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Firms increasingly depend on technological advancements and need to be able to adapt to technological shifts. However, path-dependent processes may cause lock-in situations which hinder the adoption of more efficient technological options. In a path-dependent process small events trigger positive feedback loops which gradually reduce alternative options until a pattern becomes dominant. A...Go to contribution page
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Mr Petrus Letaba (National Advisory Council on Innovation)17/05/2017, 16:14Complexity of innovation systems in the future digital worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Introduction and Purpose: the fourth industrial revolution presents both opportunities and uncertainties to various industries. Mining is among such industries in which there is a race towards autonomous mining that make use of technologies such as remote laser cutting of rocks, insitu processing of minerals, real-time excavations imaging, autonomous load-haul-dump (LHD) vehicles, etc. The...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Harm-Jan Steenhuis (Hawaii Pacific University)17/05/2017, 16:36Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Despite the often stated move from manufacturing to a service orientation, manufacturing is still an important part of the economy for many countries often accounting for 30% or more of the total economy. However, manufacturing in countries such as the U.S. has been faced with challenges, for example in terms of employment. On the one hand, even though the manufacturing output in for example...Go to contribution page
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Dr Anthon Botha (Graduate School of Technology Management, Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and IT, University of Pretoria and TechnoScene (Pty) Ltd, South Africa)17/05/2017, 16:36Complexity of innovation systems in the future digital worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)As digitalisation and machine intelligence are rapidly emerging towards disruptive status, the question should be asked whether humans will or should remain in control of innovation? Often people only think of artificial intelligence boosting growth by substituting humans, but actually huge value is going to come from the new goods, services and innovations artificial intelligence will enable....Go to contribution page
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Mr JIAN HOU (Harbin Engineering University)17/05/2017, 16:36The American economist Siwek S E. first proposed the concept of "intellectual property industry", and pointed out that the patent-intensive industry is an important part of the intellectual property industry. In April 2012, the United States Department of commerce and the United States Patent and trademark office jointly issued a statistical report "Intellectual property and the United States...Go to contribution page
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Dr Francois Joubert (University of Pretoria)17/05/2017, 16:36This paper presents quantitative evidence of the advantages of modern estimating tools and techniques, such as Monte Carlo Simulation, over more traditional, “rules based on experience” to estimate project contingency. These rules refer to statements such as “Add 10% of the project capital cost as contingency to the estimate when going into project execution”. Project contingency may be...Go to contribution page
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Raymond TAVARES18/05/2017, 09:00
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Maryam JAVAN SHAHRAKI (UNIDO REPRESENTATIVE IN IRAN)18/05/2017, 09:30
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Mr Dane Govender (University of Johannesburg)18/05/2017, 10:30Management of technology in developing countriesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Small construction companies in Gauteng, South Africa, have experienced many obstacles in their attempts to successfully complete construction projects. The general failure rate of construction companies, in South Africa, is historically high. This research focuses on investigating reasons as to why construction companies fail in South Africa, specifically Gauteng Province. The South African...Go to contribution page
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Christina König (Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT)18/05/2017, 10:30Future thinking, strategy development, and theory of technologyResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Technology scanning is the activity to gain insight on technologies outside a company's technological and market competences. This has traditionally been done in a rather passive way since such technologies rarely had a strong influence on companies. With the emergence of more and more disruptive technologies, correct and fast evaluation of trends and technologies outside the company’s...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Hideho TANAKA (Shibaura Institute of Technology)18/05/2017, 10:30Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldPresentation only (Category B)Technological evolution brings big change in business and in many cases, just few companies can survive such situation. Digitalization drove out photographic film from the market and most of film makers including Eastman Kodak failed to change its business portfolio and survive. One of the exceptions is Fuji Film. There are many comparing analysis of management aspect of Kodak and Fuji after...Go to contribution page
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Mr EDERSON BRAMBILLA (JBS), Mr EDUARDO VASCONCELLOS (USP)18/05/2017, 10:30Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldPresentation only (Category B)Product and process innovation is essential to maintain competitiveness and companies have been creating an increasing number of strategic partnerships to pursue it. A correct assessment of partners’ complementary areas is likely to lead to faster and higher quality innovation, while reducing and sharing risks among the partners. However, studies have also shown that many partnerships fail...Go to contribution page
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Mr Pawat Kalpravidh (Aston University)18/05/2017, 10:48Management of technology in developing countriesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)This study proposes a conceptual model for cloud computing affordance for SMEs. Since the mid-90s, technology management, information systems, and business management scholars have shown a growing interest in understanding how investments in cloud computing technology can lead to improved business performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). Therefore, understanding what cloud...Go to contribution page
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Mr Pedram Pourasgari (Department of Technology Management, Tehran University, Tehran,)18/05/2017, 10:52Management of technology in developing countriesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The distance between the research processes and production and technology market is one of the major challenges in technology development and innovation in Iran. In order to play a more effective role of universities in the development of knowledge, especially, technical knowledge and solving problems in the community, many countries have forced universities to increase commercialization of...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Imke De Kock (Stellenbosch University)18/05/2017, 10:52Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The ever-increasing pressure to fulfil the promise of sustainable development, the ever-moving target of sustainability, and the ever-changing definition of ‘sustainable futures’ calls for continuous, radical and fundamental research into our ability to understand the complex interactions between societal and technological elements in socio-technical systems. This paper presents the...Go to contribution page
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Ms Tanja Jovanovic (University Erlangen-Nürnberg)18/05/2017, 10:52Idea contests integrate customers into innovation processes and enhance product development of companies. Utilizing the “wisdom of the crowd” as means to improve idea generation and idea assessment has received rising popularity in research and practice alike. One new mechanism to enhance such crowd-based approaches is a crowdfunding idea contest. Crowdfunding as important platform-based...Go to contribution page
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Mr Manuel Brunner (Mechatronik Cluster)18/05/2017, 11:06Future thinking, strategy development, and theory of technologyResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The production industry of Upper Austria covers several industrial branches with clear strongholds in materials production, machinery, automation, automotive etc. However, Upper Austria is not only the home of global leading industrial producers, it is more the home of an eco-system with a healthy mix of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME), large Enterprises, producers of goods, producers of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Daniela Althoff Philippi (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso de Sul/Universidade Nove de Julho)18/05/2017, 11:14Management of technology in developing countriesPresentation only (Category B)The global scenario and technological advances make the markets increasingly competitive, increasing the need for companies to have a differential to remain in the market, which can be reached through innovation facilitated by interaction with other institutions such as universities and research institutes. Innovation has been increasingly appreciated as a relevant vector of the economy of a...Go to contribution page
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Dr Herbert Michael Richter (FJ JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences)18/05/2017, 11:14Product and service developmentResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Due to the global convergence of producers and consumers as well as of the consistency and homogeneity of product qualities and technologies, consumer products (hardware and software) are becoming increasingly similar and, thus, interchangeable. Differentiation merely by products has become highly complex and difficult. Additionally, producers from low-cost regions are increasingly able to...Go to contribution page
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Mr James Thaba (CSIR)18/05/2017, 11:14Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The evolution of warfare, and its increasing complexity has made planning for future deployments more difficult. The need to plan for more eventualities makes it more complex. The need for decision support tools and technologies to assist capability planners make more sound decisions has become more critical. Many defence forces have made a conscious decision to ditch threat based planning...Go to contribution page
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Dr Dayana Carla de Macedo (UNICENTRO - Midwestern State University)18/05/2017, 11:24Future thinking, strategy development, and theory of technologyPresentation only (Category B)The Human Development Index (HDI) is an indicator adopted by the World Health Organization to assess the quality of life of a given region. Its prediction can aid in non-planning and decision-making for advocacy and policy advocacy to improve its development. Thus, the data were collected in the respective survey are corresponding to historical behavior are index of the 149 countries analyzed....Go to contribution page
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Mr Claudio Roscoe da Rocha (UFMG - Federal University of Minas Gerais)18/05/2017, 11:36Management of technology in developing countriesResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)The competitiveness is closely related to the companies’ capacity to generate, transfer and apply technological innovation. However, established organizations face a great challenge to incorporate external technologies and innovative practices, in part due to their organizational inertia and internal pressures for operational excellence. Recent literature proposes that establishing...Go to contribution page
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Dr Sergio Bulgacov (FGV EAESP)18/05/2017, 11:36By selecting four processes of new market entry for long-lived companies with orientation to continue to renew their business model, this work proposed to analyze these strategies, guided by the research question: How is the new market entry strategy related to the configuration of the business model? The qualitative case studies, enabled to visualize the heterogeneous processes used by the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Pretorius Jan-Harm. C (University Of Johannesburg), Dr Vermeulen Andre (University Of Johannesburg)18/05/2017, 11:36Technology management and competitiveness in the globalized worldResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Organisational market competiveness goes beyond reengineering and continuous improvement initiatives on supply chain processes. It requires that organisations should seek and adopt Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) which is designed to deliver a beyond price-based outlook upon sourcing decisions, TCO allows that all possible costs elements incurable during the acquired services and / or products’...Go to contribution page
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Mr FATTOLAHI HOSSEIN (M.E.A.Hossein fattholahi Science & Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilam , Iran)18/05/2017, 11:42Future thinking, strategy development, and theory of technologyResearch Paper and Presentation (Category A)Strategic planning process is applied by the successful companies at national and international level. These companies consider strategic planning as a tool to achieve long-term goals and most of them consider their success based on this type of planning. This study aims to formulate a strategic map for Melli bank of Ilam province based on balanced score card using bank tangible assets and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Franz Androsch (voestalpine Stahl GmbH)Complexity of innovation systems in the future digital worldPresentation only (Category B)A successful innovation starts with an idea and ends up as a product on the market. Sounds simple, but turns out to be very complex when implemented. A few important principles are basic for our innovation process. We keep to our strategy. Company management stands fully behind R&D. We have a clear plan, road maps, where all R&D-topics are recorded and monitored. We have a...Go to contribution page
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S. Farhang Fassihi (Innovation and Prosperity Fund)Presentation only (Category B)In recent years due to Iran’s specific situation and obligations imposed by sanctions from one side and requirements emphasized by national policies and strategies from the other side, knowledge economy has become an important factor in the country's economic development. Therefore, a focused attention has been devoted to knowledge enterprises in Iran’s economic playground. This paper...Go to contribution page
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