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2020

Open Innovation 4.0 as an Enhancer of Sustainable Innovation Ecosystems

Autores
Costa, J; Matias, JCO;

Publicação
SUSTAINABILITY

Abstract
Innovation matters. Business success increasingly depends upon sustainable innovation. Observing recent innovation best practices, the emergence of a new paradigm is traceable. Creating an innovative ecosystem has a multilayer effect: It contributes to regional digitalization, technological start-up emergence, open innovation promotion, and new policy enhancement retro-feeding the system. Public policy must create open innovation environments accordingly with the quintuple helix harmonizing the ecosystem to internalize emerging spillovers. The public sector should enhance the process, providing accurate legal framework, procurement of innovation, and shared risks in R&D. Opening the locks that confine the trunks of community, academic, industry, and government innovation will harness each dimension exploiting collective and collaborative potential of individuals towards a brighter sustainable future. In this sense, the aim of this study is to present how open innovation can enhance sustainable innovation ecosystems and boost the digital transition. For that, firstly, a diachronic perspective of the sustainable innovation ecosystem is traced, its connection to open innovation, and identification of the university linkages. Secondly, database exploration and econometric estimations are performed. Then, we will ascertain how far open innovation frameworks and in particular the knowledge flows unveiled by the university promote smart and responsible innovation cycles. Lastly, we will propose a policy package towards green governance, empowering the university in governance distributed ecosystem, embedded in the community, self-sustained with shared gains, and a meaningful sense of identity.

2020

Evaluation of a temporal causal model for predicting the mood of clients in an online therapy

Autores
Becker, D; Bremer, V; Funk, B; Hoogendoorn, M; Rocha, A; Riper, H;

Publicação
EVIDENCE-BASED MENTAL HEALTH

Abstract
Background Self-reported client assessments during online treatments enable the development of statistical models for the prediction of client improvement and symptom development. Evaluation of these models is mandatory to ensure their validity. Methods For this purpose, we suggest besides a model evaluation based on study data the use of a simulation analysis. The simulation analysis provides insight into the model performance and enables to analyse reasons for a low predictive accuracy. In this study, we evaluate a temporal causal model (TCM) and show that it does not provide reliable predictions of clients' future mood levels. Results Based on the simulation analysis we investigate the potential reasons for the low predictive performance, for example, noisy measurements and sampling frequency. We conclude that the analysed TCM in its current form is not sufficient to describe the underlying psychological processes. Conclusions The results demonstrate the importance of model evaluation and the benefit of a simulation analysis. The current manuscript provides practical guidance for conducting model evaluation including simulation analysis.

2020

The 4-corner model as a synchromodal and digital twin enabler in the transportation sector

Autores
Carvalho, A; Melo, P; Oliveira, MA; Barros, R;

Publicação
Proceedings - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation, ICE/ITMC 2020

Abstract
Delivering information timely across the logistics network is a challenge considering the diversity of entities, technologies, IT maturity and legislation. A way to overcome those challenges is to bring all the parties to a common level by providing technology able to fast and easily connect every system and a common language to allow efficient communication between logistics stakeholders. When we apply the Synchromodality and the Digital twin concepts to logistics, significant improvements can be achieved. Shippers and Integrators can act more precisely, deciding in any step of the global operation by what mode should be selected or combined and following the strict regulations and issuing the mandatory documents timely to avoid bottlenecks. This work produced one real business scenario where the 4-corner model technology-based solution enables synchromodality across the logistics network of one industry unit and its providers and the Digital twin for the process and the VGM (Verified Gross Mass) formality documents. As a solution to this scenario we propose collaboration networks between logistics stakeholders that provide interoperable, low-cost, reliable and secure data exchange, without requiring significant IT developments. To this purpose we studied and developed a demonstrator and tested our solution that consists of the adoption of the 4-corner model as described by Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eDelivery using access points and the adoption of the standard e-Freight to exchange data over the collaboration network. The widespread use of this solution will increase global efficiency, make the inclusion of every client and provider regardless of resources available, and avoid imponderables in the logistics network. © 2020 IEEE.

2020

TIMAIRIS: Autonomous Blank Feeding for Packaging Machines

Autores
Pedrosa, EF; Lim, GH; Amaral, F; Pereira, A; Cunha, B; Azevedo, JL; Dias, P; Dias, R; Reis, LP; Shafii, N; Tudico, A; Mazzotti, C; Carricato, M; Badini, S; Rea, D; Lau, N;

Publicação
Bringing Innovative Robotic Technologies from Research Labs to Industrial End-users - The Experience of the European Robotics Challenges

Abstract
Current packaging machine vendors do not provide any automated mechanism for blank feeding and the state of the art is to have a human operator dedicated to feed the blank piles to the packaging machine. This is a tedious, repetitive and tiring task. This also results in problems with unintentional errors, such as using the wrong pile of blanks. An alternative solution is the use of a fixed robotic arm surrounded by a protective cage. However, this solution is restricted to a single packaging machine, a unique type of blank shapes and does not cooperate with humans. TIMAIRIS is a joint effort between IMA S.p.A., Italy, (IMA) and the Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, (UAVR), promoted by the European Robotics Challenges (EuRoC) project. Together, we propose a system based on a mobile manipulator for flexible, autonomous and collaborative blank feeding of packaging machines on industrial shop floor. The system provides a software architecture that allows a mobile robot to take high level decisions on how the task should be executed, which can depend on variables such as the number of packaging machines to feed and the rate of blank consumption at each one. Through a computer vision system, blanks of different shapes and sizes are correctly identified for adequate manipulation. The manipulation of the piles of blanks is performed using a single arm using compliant modes of operation to increase manipulation safety and robustness. Additionally, it has a safe navigation system that allows the robot to be integrated in an industrial environment where humans are present. Finally, it provides an enhanced multimodal interaction between human and robot that can be adapted to the environment and operator characteristics to make communication intuitive, redundant and safe. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

2020

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Serious Games for Health

Autores
Duque, D; Vilaca, JL; Zielke, MA; Dias, N; Rodrigues, NF; Thawonmas, R;

Publicação
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GAMES

Abstract

2020

Corporate communication and media coverage of abnormal returns - evidence from the Portuguese capital market

Autores
Alves, CF; Silva, AL;

Publicação
CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS

Abstract
Purpose Investor relations literature reports that after an era that "the higher the stock price, the better", currently investor relations entered into a new era where "overvaluation is perhaps as bad as undervaluation" (Laskin, 2018a, p. 19). This paper searches for evidence on whether news coverage around abnormal returns indicates that corporate communication effectively seek fair value prices. Design/methodology/approach Using data of the Portuguese market, it investigates if the news coverage and the investor relations' influence on such coverage (namely as a source of the news) are symmetrical before and after extreme abnormal positive or negative returns. This paper uses event study methodology, performs content analysis and applies statistical and econometric analyses. Findings The findings are consistent with the idea that companies communicate differently in face of positive and negative abnormal returns. Particularly, before the event, companies are more frequently cited as a source of the news for positive events. This indicates that companies seek to capitalize the positive impact of the favourable subsequent disclosures. After the occurrence of abnormal returns, companies are more often a source of the news for negative cases, seeking to mitigate their impact. Additionally, after negative events companies are more frequently mentioned in the news with a positive content than they are mentioned before. Social implications The new approach of this study allows the companies' information stakeholders (namely investors and regulators) to become more informed and critical in the analysis of news coverage and its sources. Originality/value As far as the authors of the paper know, this is the first study that addresses the question of eventual asymmetric behaviour of companies' communication in face of positive and negative abnormal returns.

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