Antimicrobial packaging, an active packaging concept, can be considered challenging technology that could have a significant impact on food safety of meat and meat products. The feasibility of polylactic acid (PLA)-ba...
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Bioplastics constitute an emerging and innovative industrial segment, characterized by new synergies and collaborations among the chemical, biotechnological, agricultural, and consumer sectors. This paper reports on a...
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For service providers, efficient production and delivery is becoming increasingly important. If customers can play the role of partial employees when participating in the service production and delivery, service provi...
For service providers, efficient production and delivery is becoming increasingly important. If customers can play the role of partial employees when participating in the service production and delivery, service providers can reduce the workload and achieve higher productivity. This study’s purpose is to investigate the impact of technology-based self-service (TBSS) which is designed for improvement of operational efficiency of service organizations on employees, customers, and sales, especially focused on South Korea’s service market. In-depth interviews with managers of large service providers and a questionnaire survey of employees were used as the research method. Our findings indicate that technology-based self-service positively influences employee satisfaction, but it provides disadvantages in sales, and in customer satisfaction when the services fail. Moreover, some interesting results were identified. We present the details of the statistical results and the implications found from the study.
Most industrialized countries have been able to insert innovation into their national agendas, leveraging competitiveness, economic growth and social development. Well structured national innovation systems run across...
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Most industrialized countries have been able to insert innovation into their national agendas, leveraging competitiveness, economic growth and social development. Well structured national innovation systems run across all the innovation value chain: from the transfer of ideas or inventions, to their commercialization as high value and differentiated products or services, producing high economic and social impacts In developing countries, the circumstances are quite different. There are weak liaisons, low trust and poor association between economic generators (companies) and their supporting institutions (government, federations, banks and academies). Regions are not electronically prepared (e-readiness) to support the infrastructure required for the effective formation of clusters (e-readiness). innovation is not perceived as an asset, and high value entrepreneurship is not a common finding in the entrepreneurial profiles of most professionals. There are no world class industrial enabling conditions, nor high value core capabilities, and the digital economies are creating large digital development divides instead of business opportunities. In general, the economic gap between rich countries and poor ones widens every day. To help alleviate this situation, we have developed the WIT Model (Wealth creation through innovation and enabling Technologies). This model has been designed to create the necessary and sufficient enabling conditions and core capabilities to empower developing regions to transform their scarce resources and hostile conditions, into attractive regions with competitive industries and innovative companies, capable of producing great added and differential values, strongly interrelated with their regional social capital, so that they can compete globally as extended networks of value, and share their economic value among their local communities. Several cases of application of the model are shown, specially the current project of the Institute for Inn
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