Top Research Papers on Technology

The market competitiveness and sustainable operation of an enterprise are closely correlated with the support of high-tech core technologies in the enterprise. This study first discusses the basic knowledge of core competitiveness, introduces the components and evaluation methods of core competitiveness, and builds an evaluation index system for core competitiveness of high-tech enterprises. Then, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is fully discussed, during which the steps, advantages, and disadvantages of the AHP evaluation method are introduced. Finally, the Fujian Province of China is ta...

Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic performance. This paper reviews what constitutes a tech cluster, how they function internally, and the degree to which policy makers can purposefully foster them. We describe the growing influence of advanced technologies for businesses outside of traditional tech fields, the strains and backlash that tech clusters are experiencing, and emerging research questions for theory and empirical work.

As significant strategic players in China's economy, high-tech industries need to evaluate and analyze the technological innovation activities from a system point of view to understand and improve their technological innovation efficiency and, thereby, promote their development. Different high-tech industries have different characteristics and thus benefit from different industrial development policies. However, few studies to date have discussed this issue from a systematic perspective. In this study, technological innovation activities are divided into a research and development (R&D) stage ...

Analysis of the relationship between green-revealed technological advantages and local AI for EU-28 (NUTS-3) regions over the period 1982-2017 shows that AI knowledge favours the green-tech specialization of regions, provided that they were already green-Tech specialized in the past.

Fintech and big tech platforms have expanded their lending around the world. We estimate that the flow of these new forms of credit reached USD 223 billion and USD 572 billion in 2019, respectively. China, the United States and the United Kingdom are the largest markets for fintech credit. Big tech credit is growing fast in China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and some countries in Africa and Latin America. Cross-country panel regressions show that such lending is more developed in countries with higher GDP per capita (at a declining rate), where banking sector mark-ups are higher and where ban...

By analysing how Google, Amazon and Microsoft organize their innovation activities, it is shown that they continuously monopolize knowledge while outsourcing innovation steps to other firms and research institutions.

Following a set of digital construction innovations through their known past and their uncertain present, a review of their increasingly optimistic future is reviewed, all through the lens of their dependence on digital information.

The high-tech sector is concentrated in a small number of cities. The ten largest clusters in computer science, semiconductors, and biology account for 69 percent, 77 percent, and 59 percent of all US inventors, respectively. Using longitudinal data on 109,846 inventors, I find that geographical agglomeration results in significant productivity gains. When an inventor moves to a city with a large cluster of inventors in the same field, she experiences a sizable increase in the number and quality of patents produced. The presence of significant productivity externalities implies that the agglom...

Fintech and big tech companies are making rapid inroads into credit markets. We hand construct a global database of fintech and big tech lending volumes for 79 countries over 2013–2018. Using a panel regression analysis, we find these new forms of digital lending are larger in countries with higher GDP per capita (albeit at a declining rate), where banking sector mark-ups are higher, and where banking regulation is less stringent. We also find that these alternative forms of credit are more developed where the ease of doing business is greater, investor protection disclosure and the efficiency...

A global effort is ongoing in the scientific community and in the maker movement, which focuses on creating devices and tinkering with them, to reverse-engineer commercial medical equipment and get it to healthcare workers.

"From FSGO x Logic: a Stanford professor's spirited dismantling of Silicon Valley's intellectual origins."

An in-depth qualitative analysis of 115 syllabi from university technology ethics courses is presented, contributing a snapshot of the content and goals of tech ethics classes, and recommendations for how these might be integrated across a computing curriculum.

Tourism scholars should seize the opportunity to develop robotic applications that enhance tourist experiences, the protection of natural and cultural resources, citizen participation in tourism development decision making, and the emergence of new ‘high-touch’ employment opportunities for travel, tourism and hospitality workers.

The findings show that Big Tech firms turn “users” and “user engagement” into assets through the performative measurement, governance, and valuation of user metrics (e.g., user numbers, user engagement), rather than extending ownership and control rights over personal data per se.

This study provides quantitative evidence on the positive effect of spending on socially responsible causes on the long-term growth of U.S technology companies. Maximizing shareholder wealth remains the overarching principle driving organizational strategies, but this has always conflicted with other stakeholders' interests. Because of these conflicting priorities, entrenching the principles of social responsibility has become imperative. We leverage content analysis, fixed-effects and pooled regression models to examine the effect of engaging in CSR on tech companies' corporate financial perf...

It is argued that there is a need for a more reflective ‘normalisation’ of work practices and the role technology plays and its underlying components of cohesion, cognitive participation, collective action and reflexive monitoring are examined.

The results reveal that compared with the command-controlled environmental regulation, the incentive effect of market-incentive environmental regulation and voluntary environmental regulation on enterprise innovation is more significant, where the innovation input fully plays its role as a mediating effect.

Building on dynamic capabilities, a total of nine capabilities have been identified that assist high-tech SMEs to become agile in their cross-border activities and proposed conceptual frameworks for agility in international high- tech SMEs.

The recent debate about the digitalization of museums and new technologies has become increasingly important among tourism scholars. Digital innovation and virtual environments, such as social media platforms, might significantly foster the competitive advantage of museums and their ability to attract new visitors. Particularly in times of crisis, prospective tourists appreciate the addition of a ‘digital flavor’ to exhibitions and art galleries. Improved experiences, increased loyalty, and overall higher satisfaction result from the introduction of Internet Communication Technologies (ICTs) i...

The study assesses the effect of the high-tech industry and renewable energy on consumption-based carbon emissions (CCO2) in the MINT countries (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey). The study also incorporates other drivers of CCO2 emissions, such as economic growth and foreign direct investment. It utilises a panel dataset spanning between 1990 and 2018 and a series of second-generation techniques such as CIPS and CADF unit root, Westerlund cointegration, the fully modified ordinary least square (FMOLS), dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS), fixed effect ordinary least square (FE-OLS) and ...

This study aims to deepen our knowledge of the SME 'human' role within open innovation adoption. To achieve this, we explore how the SME leader, namely the founder/CEO managerial characteristics influence the SMEs open innovation adoption dynamics (i.e. mechanisms, partners, motives and sequence of adoption). The empirical analysis is based on seven Irish medical device SME case studies achieving high growth ambitions at an international level. Our findings demonstrate that SME open innovation adoption is exemplified by a project based as opposed to an organisational level rationale and a natu...

Analysis shows that concepts of utopian futures and technologies to support those futures are still heavily laden with dystopian realities of racism and poverty, and discusses ways that speculative design fictions and futuring can serve to address inclusivity in concept generation for new technologies.

Carbon capture options, including pre/post-combustion, oxyfuel, and chemical looping combustion, have been noticeably exploited in recent years at various technological readiness levels (TRL). Although review studies that address carbon capture strategies are widely available, a comprehensive review based on the TRL of the most recent carbon capture facilities operating worldwide has yet to be conducted. In this review study, in addition to summarizing the key features of the widely-used conventional physicochemical solvents, a brief discussion on the novel, commercialized enzyme-accelerated s...

Many sexually active, reproductive-aged persons capable of becoming pregnant use some method of contraception.

What does the future hold for technology and education? What can be learnt from the history of its use in education? Does technology make education more individualized? Will it eventually replace the school, university and teacher? In a thoroughly revised edition of this successful book, Neil Selwyn takes a critical look at some of the major current debates and controversies concerning digital technologies and education. Focusing on the social as well as the technical aspects of these issues, Selwyn addresses fundamental but often unvoiced questions about education and technology. Over the cou...

Abstract With the rise of the solar power century, photovoltaic applications and installations will go beyond the traditional green field power plants and enter any aspect of daily life. Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) demonstrate certified cell efficiencies of over 17% and are expected to contribute to versatile applications powered by solar energy, for instance, applications rely on flexibility, transparency, color management, or integrability. In this work, the progress of OPV technology is briefly reviewed and the material strategies to accelerate OPV technology toward a GW era are analyzed. ...

Creating technologically focused entrepreneurs is a crucial endeavor worldwide, especially with the exponential growth of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation. This research explores meta-organizations that enable new business models in the retail domain by acting as a powerful mechanism to support entrepreneurs in extracting value from data. This study investigates how meta-organizations engage users and empower tech entrepreneurs to create shared value by developing social innovation. This research involves an in-depth and longitudinal unique case study of a meta-organization operating in...

While blockchain-based technologies are expected to bring a variety of impacts, only some are directly attributable to the blockchain element: increased transparency, traceability, and trust; other impacts are a side-effect of digitizing non-digital processes.

This research identifies several significant relationships between such constructs, which contribute to the literature and provide key implications for business management and practitioners.

The digital twin model can be efficiently created by considering the evolution direction and future aspects by using the suggested digital twin evolution levels, which are introduced to guide practical implementations of the digital twin.

Task-technology fit and technology trust are found to demonstrate differentiated explanatory powers towards shoppers’ adoption of the different categories of technologies.

Technological progress plays an important role in energy efficiency improvements. This paper considers two pathways that could accelerate technology development: technology introduction and technological innovation. The technology introduced through foreign direct investment (FDI) may enhance the host country’s independent innovation capability, minimize the risk of independent innovation and lower the cost. To that end, a two-stage analysis was conducted at the industrial level for the period 2000–2018 in Guangdong, China. The first stage included an estimation of total factor energy efficien...

The findings show that students’ use of digital technology was the highest in learning vocabularies and lowest in reading skills, while teachers’ highest use was for general teaching practices and lowest for reading skills.

Green finance and high-tech innovation can independently contribute to sustainable development, but their combined impact on the mechanism of regional sustainable development requires further exploration. This study constructed a sustainable development index from the perspectives of economic development, ecological environment, and social satisfaction. It empirically analyzes the impact of green finance and high-tech innovation on the sustainable development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt over 21 years. The research findings indicate that a higher level of green finance and high-tech inno...

Design thinking can be a critical facilitator of new technologies, but it is also a technology in its own right—a social technology that encourages more productive innovation conversations that are strategically valuable for dynamic capability building. By overcoming social and psychological barriers in innovation processes, design thinking accelerates progress on critical imperatives: allowing innovators at all levels to sense new opportunities; seize them by overcoming cognitive biases and aligning stakeholders; and transform and reconfigure resources. It accomplishes this through a set of w...

The mechanisms of the most commonly used 3D printing technologies are summarized, their characteristics, advantages, disadvantages, and applications in the pharmaceutical industry are described, the progress of global commercialization of 3D printed drugs and their problems and challenges are analyzed, and the development trends are reflected.

This narrative review summarizes the technical features, data capture methods, and various advantages and limitations of medication adherence monitoring technology reported in the literature and the proposed criteria for assessing medications adherence monitoring technologies.

This research reviewed 40 articles on technology-enhanced collaborative language learning from five aspects, the nature of publications, the types of technologies, the effectiveness of the technologies, and the implications of the studies.

Ammonia is considered a key energy carrier with potential applications for low carbon energy storage, transportation and power generation. This carbon-free molecule offers several advantages, including high energy density and a well-established production and distribution infrastructure that have been optimized for over a century. In this perspective, we analyze the potential roles of ammonia as an energy carrier, and summarize research areas requiring further development for the implementation of ammonia as a building block in the global low-carbon energy landscape. Ammonia technologies are r...

This paper reviewed the entire life cycle of plastics and options for the management of plastic waste to address barriers to industrial chemical recycling and further provide perceptions on possible opportunities with such materials.