Article
Engineering, Industrial
Abhijit Sengupta, Federica Rossi
Summary: This paper examines the relationship between universities' knowledge exchange (KE) profiles and changes in the composition of their funding sources. It finds that universities with a higher share of KE income tend to have a higher degree of specialization in both KE channels and stakeholder types. Conversely, universities with a higher share of blue-sky research income tend to have greater diversification in both. The study also shows that the responsiveness of universities to changes in income shares is moderated by their levels of tangible and intangible resources.
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Xuyang Chang, Corentin Le Gourrierec, Leonard Turpin, Myriam Berny, Francois Hild, Stephane Roux
Summary: Stereocorrelation (SC) is a powerful tool for measuring 3D surface deformations in mechanical tests, but it may face convergence issues for large displacements or speckle changes. This study proposes a global space-time formulation using Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD) as a regularization strategy. The entire image sequence is treated as a whole, and the kinematics is sought as the sum of modes, each being a function of space multiplied by a function of time. A discriminative benchmark case of an impact test on glass laminated with PVB layers is chosen to validate this approach, and the results demonstrate that the new formulation outperforms classical approaches in terms of robustness, measurement accuracy, and processing time.
COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Fabrizio Errico, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, Umberto Panniello, Angelo Scialpi
Summary: This study aims to explore the effects of received fundings and specialized competences on the R&D activities of start-ups. The results show that both the number and total amount of grants received by start-ups positively impact their innovative performance. The integration of grants with the presence of a high qualified team in the management board also contributes to the innovative performance.
JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ke Liu, Zhaoping Wang, Ran Du, Heng Chen, Yajing Li
Summary: Based on a study of Chinese logistics listed companies from 2010 to 2019, this research used the binary Logit model to measure the degree of financing constraints. The study also utilized the Kernel density function and Markov chain model to forecast the financing constraints and business performance growth of China's listed logistics companies. The findings show that the financing constraints for logistics companies in China have not significantly eased, and there are no noticeable changes in corporate performance or spatial gaps over time. The study also reveals a double threshold effect of knowledge stock on the impact of financing constraints on corporate performance growth, which has an initial increasing and then decreasing inhibitory effect.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Yaniv Edery, Martin Stolar, Giovanni Porta, Alberto Guadagnini
Summary: The study reveals that dissolution and precipitation occur in different locations within the system, with preferential flow paths associated with high conductivity values contributing to a sustained feedback between transport and reaction processes. This leads to the emergence of non-Fickian effective transport features over time.
HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Graziano Crasta, Virginia De Cicco, Annalisa Malusa
Summary: We introduce a pairing between a bounded divergence-measure vector field and a function u of bounded variation, which depends on the choice of the pointwise representative of u. These pairings inherit all the main properties and features from the standard pairing, and the corresponding functionals can become semicontinuous with respect to strict convergence in BV.
ADVANCES IN CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS
(2022)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Lin Zhang, Beibei Sun, Lidan Jiang, Ying Huang
Summary: This study analyzed the influence of interdisciplinary research on citation impact and broader impact, showing positive effects on both academic and broader impact. Interdisciplinary publications tend to attract more citations and have higher PLoS usage, with signs that PLoS usage and citations can mutually reinforce each other.
RESEARCH EVALUATION
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Andrew Hugill
Summary: This article introduces the key themes of the special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, which focuses on the relationship between music and science. It outlines the interdisciplinary, methodological, and epistemological aspects of the articles in the journal and concludes with the author's personal reflections on their involvement in music for over fifty years.
INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Vitaly Golubev, Colin McCarter, Pete Whittington
Summary: This study highlighted significant differences in the relationship between soil water content and hydraulic conductivity at different depths and among different moss species. The experiment indicated that 3x5 cm samples were preferred for studying soil water characteristics. Additionally, simulation of a drought period revealed different responses to water stress between S. fuscum and S. magellanicum.
JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Immunology
Chester O. Kolek, Sylvia A. Opanga, Faith Okalebo, Alfred Birichi, Amanj Kurdi, Brian Godman, Johanna C. Meyer
Summary: There is a prevalence of HPV vaccine hesitancy among parents in Kenya, mainly due to safety concerns and perceived young age of the child. Despite lower knowledge levels, most parents are still willing to have their children vaccinated.
Article
International Relations
Stephen Aris
Summary: This paper provides a macro-sociological analysis of the practices of knowledge exchange between International Relations and Area Studies, focusing on citation practices to examine potential blindspots in IR's knowledge production and the types of IR theories being exported to AS.
INTERNATIONAL THEORY
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Simopekka Vanska, Tapio Luostarinen, Camilla Lagheden, Carina Eklund, Sara Nordqvist Kleppe, Bengt Andrae, Par Sparen, Karin Sundstrom, Matti Lehtinen, Joakim Dillner
Summary: The study analyzed HPV genotyping data from Sweden between 2002 and 2011 to estimate age-specific cervical cancer incidence by HPV type and the impact of removing different types of HPV. The results showed that after eliminating vaccine-protected HPV types, very few cases of cervical cancer will be left, especially among fertile, reproductive-age women.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Qian Li, Cen-Ying Lee, Hao Jin, Heap-Yih Chong
Summary: This study adopts knowledge management theories from an inter-organizational perspective to uncover the relationships among information sharing, knowledge organization, and knowledge integration through knowledge formation for improving complex infrastructure project performance. It also discovers that inter-organizational trust plays a positive moderating role in the relationship between knowledge organization and knowledge integration.
Article
Economics
Cristian Mihai Dragos, Simona Laura Dragos, Codruta Mare, Gabriela Mihaela Muresan, Alexandra-Anca Purcel
Summary: This study examines the factors influencing Romanian farmers' decision to purchase crop insurance, using a sample of 721 farmers and a multinomial logit model. The results show that crop insurance knowledge and risk assessment are key factors, along with cultivated area, trust in the insurer, and crop type. These findings are expected to assist transitional countries in implementing crop insurance as a risk management tool.
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xiaomin Yang, Zhaoliang Song, Laodong Guo, Jingxu Wang, Yilun Ni, Zimin Li, Qian Hao, Qiang Li, Lele Wu, Wei Kuang, Yang Liu, Xiangbin Ran, Bhupinder Pal Singh, Iain P. Hartley, Hailong Wang
Summary: Phytoliths, a potentially promising material for carbon sequestration, have uncertain and controversial carbon content due to the lack of detailed information on the variation of carbon under different extraction procedures. In this study, a standardized approach was developed to evaluate the potential production rates of phytolith-occluded carbon (PhytOC) globally in rice paddy fields. The results showed that the carbon content in recovered phytoliths exhibited a significant relationship with digestion degrees and the global production of total PhytOC in paddy fields was estimated to be (2.71 +/- 0.85) x 106 t year-1.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Business
Seokkyun Woo, Jan Youtie, Ingrid Ott, Fenja Scheu
Summary: This study proposes an improved version of the Technology Emergence Indicator by examining emerging topics within autonomous vehicles technologies from 1991 to 2018. The results show that different autonomous vehicle technology topics emerge during each of the three 10-year periods under analysis, characterized by different trajectories of continuity or cyclical carryover.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Seokbeom Kwon, Kazuyuki Motohashi, Kenta Ikeuchi
Summary: This study investigates the impact of institutional changes in Japan's national university reform in 2004 on university scientists' research productivity and quality. It finds that the introduction of a research performance evaluation system led to an increase in research productivity among national university scientists, particularly in the Life Science domain. Additionally, the reform also encouraged more scientists to engage in research that serves as a knowledge input for developing technological applications.
JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
(2022)
Article
Management
Jan Youtie, Robert Ward, Philip Shapira, R. Sandra Schillo, E. Louise Earl
Summary: This study explores a novel method using media sources and social networks to identify innovation ecosystems, and conducts an empirical study in the agri-food industry in Winnipeg, Canada. The results show that plant-based protein firms have a higher innovation orientation compared to conventional food processors, and have more ecosystem associations with industry, government, and other agricultural companies.
TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS & STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Seokbeom Kwon, Kazuyuki Motohashi
Summary: Researchers can enhance visibility and gain academic credit by disclosing original data, but this advantage diminishes over time due to competition effects. The academic reputation of journals where data-disclosing research is published plays a role in this pattern.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Business
Seokbeom Kwon
Summary: This study examines the relationship between interdisciplinarity in knowledge integration for research and its unique knowledge input for technology development. The study finds that interdisciplinarity is positively associated with uniqueness in its contribution to technology development only when the research has funding support. It also finds that interdisciplinarity is positively associated with the non-unique impact of research on technology development regardless of funding support.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
Editorial Material
Business
Yi Zhang, Ying Huang, Denise Chiavetta, Alan L. Porter
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Sergio Pelaez, Jan Youtie, Philip Shapira
Summary: This study analyzes the research outcomes and spillover effects of a US University Research Center with user facilities, focusing on the impact of these facilities on collaboration and research impact.
JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Seokbeom Kwon, Jan Youtie, Alan Porter, Nils Newman
Summary: This study investigates the impact of regulatory uncertainty on the translation of scientific discovery to technical applications in a specific field, using the case of nanomedicine research. The findings suggest that regulatory uncertainty slows down the development of technical applications, particularly in emerging topics within the field.
JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
(2022)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Alan L. Porter, Mark Markley, Richard Snead, Nils C. Newman
Summary: This paper presents a new measure of patent value called Maintenance Renewal Score (MRSc), which reflects the valuation of a patent by its assignee through successive renewal fee payments. The authors calculate MRSc for nanotechnology patents issued by the US Patent Office between 1999 and 2009, with US assignees and inventors. The study compares the maintenance rates of nanopatents during this period and against a comparison set of all 1999 USPTO grants to US inventors/assignees, revealing differences in maintenance propensity based on institution type, technological sector, and patent complexity.
WORLD PATENT INFORMATION
(2023)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Seokbeom Kwon, Jan Youtie, Alan L. Porter
Summary: This article introduces a new indicator of emerging technological topics to address challenges in interdisciplinary research evaluation, and tests its relationship with interdisciplinary and atypical research combinations using scientific publication metadata from three domains. The study finds that interdisciplinary and atypical knowledge combinations contribute increasingly or consistently to addressing emerging technological topics in Nano-Enabled Drug Delivery, Synthetic Biology, and Autonomous Vehicles. Implications for policymakers and contributions to the literature on interdisciplinary research evaluation are discussed.
RESEARCH EVALUATION
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Jan Youtie, Seokbeom Kwon, Seokkyun Woo
Summary: This study examines the National Science Foundation's Innovation-Corps program and its impact on Georgia Tech teams in making faster decisions to discontinue venture projects, resulting in estimated savings of over $3.6 million during an 8-year observation period.
SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jan Youtie, Robert Ward, Philip Shapira, Alan L. Porter, Nils Newman
Summary: Assessing corporate engagement with emerging technology is crucial for understanding research and innovation systems. Analysis shows that the majority of corporate nanotechnology publications involve authors from multiple organizations and countries, with these percentages increasing in recent years.
JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Public Administration
Barry Bozeman, Jan Youtie, Jiwon Jung
Summary: This study examines administrative workarounds in university research administration through empirical interviews with 116 academic researchers, proposing a Rules Response model that explores relationships among rules compliance requests, administrative burden, red tape, and response choices. The article concludes by discussing the implications of the empirical results for improving the Rules Response model and the need for further research to enhance understanding of rules compliance and workarounds.
ADMINISTRATION & SOCIETY
(2021)