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Dr
Ruchita Gupta
(National Institute of Industrial Engineering)
15/05/2017, 13:30
Management of technology in developing countries
Presentation 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...
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Dr
Ruchita Gupta
(NITIE)
15/05/2017, 13:52
Management of technology in developing countries
Presentation 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...
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Fabian Reck
(University of Bamberg)
15/05/2017, 14:14
Knowledge management
Research 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...
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Dr
Marianne Hรถrlesberger
(AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)
15/05/2017, 14:36
Knowledge management
Presentation 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...
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Ms
Annica Marais
(Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
15/05/2017, 15:30
Management of technology in developing countries
Research 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...
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Dr
Gabriela Scur
(FEI University)
15/05/2017, 15:52
Product and service development
Research 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...
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Mr
Mazwi Dzapasi
(Department of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University)
15/05/2017, 16:14
Future thinking, strategy development, and theory of technology
Research 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...
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Prof.
David Walwyn
(University of Pretoria)
15/05/2017, 16:36
Management of technology in developing countries
Research 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,...
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Ms
Eunkyeong Oh
(Department of Graduate School of Management of Technology (MOT), Sungkyunkwan University)
16/05/2017, 10:30
Management of specific emerging technologies
Research 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,...
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Mr
ahmed mostafa
(Nile University)
16/05/2017, 10:52
Management of technology in developing countries
Presentation 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 countryโs total trade, track
how these dynamics change over time and explore growth opportunities for more
than a hundred countries worldwide. Egypt...
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Dr
Rene Albertus
(University of the Western Cape)
16/05/2017, 11:14
Management of technology in developing countries
Research 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...
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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, 11:36
Management of specific emerging technologies
Research 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...
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Mr
Mostafa Safdar Ranjbar
(Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran)
16/05/2017, 13:30
Management of technology in developing countries
Presentation 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...
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Dr
Andrรฉa Paula Segatto
(Federal University of Paranรก), Dr
Fernanda Salvador Alves
(Federal University of Paranรก)
16/05/2017, 13:52
Management of technology in developing countries
Presentation 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 scaleโs economies. Therefore, organizations develop relational capabilities, which are, according to Alves (2015) the creation and the combination, of common resources, intra and...
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Mrs
Adriana Paola Sanchez Rico
(Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation of Argentina)
16/05/2017, 14:14
Knowledge management
Research 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...
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Dr
Andrรฉa Paula Segatto
(Federal University of Paranรก), Dr
Fernanda Salvador Alves
(Federal University of Paranรก)
16/05/2017, 14:36
Management of technology in developing countries
Presentation 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...
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Mr
Pedram Pourasgari
(Technology Studies Institute)
16/05/2017, 15:30
Management of technology in developing countries
Presentation 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...
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Dr
Marta Lucia Tostes Vieira
(PUCP)
16/05/2017, 15:52
Management of technology in developing countries
Research 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...
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Ms
Nathalia Pufal
(UFRGS)
16/05/2017, 16:14
Management of technology in developing countries
Research 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...
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Ms
Yujin Jeong
(Dongguk University)
16/05/2017, 16:36
Future thinking, strategy development, and theory of technology
Presentation 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...
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Prof.
Cesar Goncalves Neto
(COPPEAD/UFRJ)
17/05/2017, 10:30
Management of technology in developing countries
Presentation 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...
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Mr
Abimelek Shikongo Amunjela
(Department of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University)
17/05/2017, 10:52
Management of technology in developing countries
Research 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,...
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Ms
Esther Basson
(Department of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University)
17/05/2017, 11:14
Product and service development
Research 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,...
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Dr
Paulo ZAWISLAK
(Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)
17/05/2017, 11:36
Management of technology in developing countries
Research Paper and Presentation (Category A)
Innovation has always been part of all economyโs 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...
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Mr
Dane Govender
(University of Johannesburg)
18/05/2017, 10:30
Management of technology in developing countries
Research 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...
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Mr
Pedram Pourasgari
(Department of Technology Management, Tehran University, Tehran,)
18/05/2017, 10:52
Management of technology in developing countries
Research 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...
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Dr
Daniela Althoff Philippi
(Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso de Sul/Universidade Nove de Julho)
18/05/2017, 11:14
Management of technology in developing countries
Presentation 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...
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Mr
Claudio Roscoe da Rocha
(UFMG - Federal University of Minas Gerais)
18/05/2017, 11:36
Management of technology in developing countries
Research Paper and Presentation (Category A)
The competitiveness is closely related to the companiesโ 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...
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