{"title":"Individual and collective absorptive capacities of new external knowledge: The case of Tunisian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)","authors":"Salha Oumaya, Lamia Gharbi","doi":"10.1386/TMSD.16.3.209_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/TMSD.16.3.209_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38310,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development","volume":"16 1","pages":"209-227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/TMSD.16.3.209_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45051922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An examination of the potential links between ICT technology transfer and sustainable development","authors":"George Mulamula, J. Amadi-Echendu","doi":"10.1386/TMSD.16.2.119_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/TMSD.16.2.119_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38310,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development","volume":"16 1","pages":"119-139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/TMSD.16.2.119_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48939298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emerging sectors and entrepreneurial players: The case for Internet of Things technologies","authors":"Rosangela Feola, R. Parente, Valter Rassega","doi":"10.1386/TMSD.16.2.141_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/TMSD.16.2.141_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38310,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development","volume":"16 1","pages":"141-155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44422967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The relationship between entrepreneurial orientation, marketing innovation and competitive marketing advantage of female entrepreneurs in Egypt","authors":"Sarah Adam, A. Mahrous, W. Kortam","doi":"10.1386/TMSD.16.2.157_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/TMSD.16.2.157_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38310,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development","volume":"16 1","pages":"157-174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/TMSD.16.2.157_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44813755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"University–industry relationships in developing countries: Opportunities and challenges in Algeria, Indonesia, Malaysia and India","authors":"Mohammed Saad, S. Datta, Azley Abd Razak","doi":"10.1386/TMSD.16.2.175_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/TMSD.16.2.175_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article is aimed at investigating the various opportunities as well as the challenges faced by National Systems of Higher Education in aligning themselves with the requirement of National and Regional Innovation Systems in developing countries. It achieves this by comparing various practices of university–industry relationship across four different countries, investigating the links of these universities with regional and/or national systems of innovation and their position within the three-stage evolutionary process (statist, laissez-faire and hybrid) of the Triple Helix system. The article argues that a healthy balance of diverse types of higher education institutions (HEIs) across regional and national levels in a country might be necessary for better national innovation performance.","PeriodicalId":38310,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development","volume":"16 1","pages":"175-190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/TMSD.16.2.175_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42568488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leveraging triple helix and system intermediaries to enhance effectiveness of protected spaces and strategic niche management for transitioning to circular economy","authors":"J. Barrie, G. Zawdie, E. João","doi":"10.1386/TMSD.16.1.25_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/TMSD.16.1.25_1","url":null,"abstract":"The transition to circular economy has been heralded as a vision to overcome the challenges of rapid population growth, economic stagnation and environmental degradation. A promising policy tool for accelerating such a transition is Strategic Niche Management (SNM), the central tenet of which is the formation of ‘protected spaces’ to support the growth of sustainable innovation. Studies have demonstrated that current top-down policy approaches to governing protected spaces have led to the unintended consequences of network tensions, low quality learning processes and low innovation adoption rates outside protected spaces. This limits the impact of SNM as a transition tool. Through a detailed literature review, this paper looks into a novel devolved governance framework for protected spaces in the context of transition to circular economy. The framework addresses current limitations of SNM by acknowledging the synergistic relationship with the triple helix innovation system; and innovation intermediation. Transition to circular economy turns on the achievement of ‘triple helix consensus’ across ‘protected spaces’ to provide the requisite platform for sustained innovation and for the recurrent choice of knowledge and market systems that are consistent with the circular economy growth trajectory.","PeriodicalId":38310,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development","volume":"16 1","pages":"25-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/TMSD.16.1.25_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48496972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Institutional stakeholder perceptions of barriers to Green IT policy in Nigeria","authors":"A. O. Okafor, J. Martins","doi":"10.1386/tmsd.16.1.71_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/tmsd.16.1.71_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article inductively identifies barriers and limitations to Green IT policy as perceived by IT and environmental regulators in Nigeria. Qualitative interviews were conducted with the set of senior executive managers of Nigerian regulators who share Green IT as a key remit. The data were analysed using inductive thematic analysis. Although mostly reactive, Green IT policy in Nigeria has mainly targeted e-waste and incentivized innovative uses of renewable energy. However, insufficient financial provision towards the promotion of Green IT was perceived to hinder efficient regulatory activities. Similarly, poor energy infrastructure and insufficient collection and recycling facilities prevented the regulators from enforcing Green IT strategies. Major impeding barriers were also reported at the levels of policy ownership and control. This article is valuable to public administration agencies who must collaborate to address the issues of information technology/information systems and sustainability. It exposes regulators’ perceived difficulty to establish lines of accountability between agencies that intervene in Green IT policy, from the perspective of a developing country. Each regulator is currently focused on taking individual efforts and steps which are perceived to lead to conflict in policies and overlapping authority. As remedial action we propose tighter coordination amongst regulators who share Green IT as a key remit.","PeriodicalId":38310,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development","volume":"16 1","pages":"71-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42906417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovation performance and organizational capabilities in the Swedish hybrid electric vehicle technology: A study of 40 SMEs","authors":"Hans Löfsten","doi":"10.1386/TMSD.16.1.49_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/TMSD.16.1.49_1","url":null,"abstract":"This study identifies the important organizational capabilities for innovation performance in the hybrid electric vehicle technology sector. Specifically, we focus on small and medium-sized technology-based firms in Sweden. The empirical data, collected by using a questionnaire, cover 40 technology-based firms from eight industrial branches. We use eighteen variables to identify the important organizational capabilities related to markets and business competition by including indicators for each of these capabilities in two regression models. The results offer empirical evidence that these organizational capabilities are important for mainly radical innovation in the hybrid electric vehicle technology industry. This study thus contributes by exploring how businesses can link organizational capabilities in a competitive business environment. Both patent (radical innovation) and product development require firm development and RD however, patent development also requires internationalization. These results offer useful implications for policy-makers and firm managers, who can manage firms based on R&D and business dimensions to support their development in this sector.","PeriodicalId":38310,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development","volume":"16 1","pages":"49-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/TMSD.16.1.49_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43086018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The relations between ecological sustainability and geographical proximity: A review of the literature","authors":"B. Kuch","doi":"10.1386/TMSD.16.1.97_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/TMSD.16.1.97_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38310,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development","volume":"16 1","pages":"97-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45036528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}