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Development Studies
Mingmin Pan, Mee Kam Ng, Ying Xu
Summary: This paper explores the transformation of small and medium enterprise-based industrial districts into eco-industrial development in newly industrialized countries. The study focuses on the emergence and evolution of an eco-transformation arena in Shunde District, Southern China, and analyzes how it is driven by national policies and local government responses. The findings suggest that the pathway is characterized by a fluid, non-linear process shaped by agenda setting, actors and their relationships, strategies and actions, translation projects, and negotiation spaces within the arena, while influenced by context and place-specificity.
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(2023)
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Mickey Howard, Xiaoyu Yan, Nav Mustafee, Fiona Charnley, Steffen Bohm, Stefano Pascucci
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(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sung Hyo Hong
Summary: Small and medium-sized enterprises face fierce competition in foreign markets due to lack of technological capabilities, often relying on external R&D activities. This paper empirically analyzes determinants of SMEs' selections of R&D cooperation partners in Korea, finding factors such as larger labor force in R&D, larger sales, and others influencing the collaboration choice.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ming-Kuen Chen, Chung-Min Wu, Lee-Shing Chen, Ya-Ping Huang
Summary: Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) often lack resources and technical capabilities. Clusters are a common development pattern to promote resource sharing and information exchange among SMEs. The business ecosystem provides a new perspective for contemporary companies, allowing them to pursue their own interests while promoting overall ecosystem growth.
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Environmental Sciences
Hongkuan Zang, Ye Xu, Mengyu Zhai, Wei Li, Shuai Su
Summary: This study focuses on the impact of different emission sources on the internal interaction of carbon emission system in Northeast Industrial District, finding huge indirect emissions, insufficient pulling weights of the agricultural sector, and excessively strong driving weight of the advanced manufacture sector as key issues. The results will provide a scientific basis for guiding the reform of the carbon emission system and achieving regional coordinated development.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Tatyana Tolstykh, Nadezhda Shmeleva, Leyla Gamidullaeva, Victoria Krasnobaeva
Summary: Organizational models based on partnership, mutual benefit, and synergy can provide companies with opportunities to achieve economic resilience, technological independence, and compliance with environmental, social, and governance principles through horizontal mergers. This article suggests analyzing collaboration maturity of enterprises and actors to assess their potential for forming industrial symbioses and innovation ecosystems. The authors' proposals were tested in assessing collaboration maturity in phosphogypsum recycling and in Safer Phosphates industrial innovation ecosystem. Collaboration between enterprises through joint technological and environmental projects can lead to the development of industrial ecosystems, facilitating the exchange of resources and attracting new actors from different sectors and regions. Such interaction benefits all market participants by providing long-term development strategies and commercial and image benefits.
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Business
Xander Ong, Susan Freeman, Francois Goxe, Simone Guercini, Brian Cooper
Summary: This study adopts an industry evolutionary perspective to examine the facilitating role of cooperative strategies among immigrant-run SMEs. Through collaborative engagements, both immigrant and native-run SMEs gain knowledge and resources to enter new customer segments.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW
(2022)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Zeqin Liao, Guangjie Han, Hao Wang, Li Liu
Summary: The research proposes a multistation-based collaborative charging strategy (MCCS) for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), using static charging stations as energy sources and high-level chargers to transmit energy to primary chargers and sensor nodes. Evaluations show that MCCS outperforms existing strategies in terms of efficiency, energy consumed in movement, and charging energy loss.
IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL
(2021)
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Business
Hui Han, Silvana Trimi
Summary: Industry 4.0 aims to achieve digital transformation through connecting machines, plants, fleets, and humans, enabling small and medium enterprises to increase organizational agility, adaptability, and resilience. However, SMEs may encounter challenges related to technology, trust, and big data when adopting I4.0 technologies.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ming-Kuen Chen, Shih-Wei Wu, Ya-Ping Huang, Feng-Ju Chang
Summary: This study explores the development of SME cluster operations from a business ecosystem perspective, summarizing the influencing factors and their management implications.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hossein Rahnama, Kerstin Johansen, Lisa Larsson, Anna Ohrwall Ronnback
Summary: The rapid digital transformation in the manufacturing industry presents both opportunities and challenges, and it is crucial for companies to commit to sustainability. This paper explores the challenges faced by small technology solution providers in developing sustainable production solutions and proposes a collaborative process model to overcome internal and external barriers.
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Engineering, Industrial
Roberta Apa, Valentina De Marchi, Roberto Grandinetti, Silvia Rita Sedita
Summary: This study examines the impact of university-industry collaborations on the innovation performance of small and medium enterprises in Veneto, Italy. It identifies the variety of forms UICs can take and the potential influence of SMEs' absorptive capacity on their innovation performance through UICs. The findings suggest that UICs effectively increase SMEs' innovation performance, highlighting the importance of such collaborations in fostering innovation.
JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
(2021)
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Engineering, Environmental
Jeryang Park, Jaebeom Park, Yongju Choi
Summary: This study utilizes coauthor network and cluster analysis to examine scientific collaboration and cluster formation in the field of environmental engineering. By evaluating papers published in South Korean domestic environmental engineering journals, unique network characteristics representing the field and regional boundaries were identified. Nine clusters were identified based on research interests and author affiliations, with division determined by similarities in author affiliations and problem-oriented research topics.
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH
(2022)
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Economics
Anna Gerke, Yan Dalla Pria
Summary: This article analyzes the role of social capital in territorial development by investigating a post-industrial territory in France. The results provide insights for policymakers and local business networks, revealing micro-economic factors that lead to social capital formation in a specific territory and shedding light on the impact of social capital on territorial development.
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(2018)
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(2018)
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A. Villa, T. Taurino
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(2017)
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RISKS AND RESILIENCE OF COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS
(2015)
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(2015)
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9TH CIRP CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT COMPUTATION IN MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING - CIRP ICME '14
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(2014)
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