{"title":"Analysis of Mergers and Acquisitions Trends in the Semiconductor Industry with the Technology Perspective","authors":"Bohua Shao, K. Asatani, I. Sakata","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893782","url":null,"abstract":"Technology-driven Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) are important for open innovation because they provide companies with external innovation resources. Recently, in the era of Industry 4.0, M&A deals become more and larger for landscape changing in the semiconductor industry. This paper aims at understanding the motivations and trends of this phenomenon from the technology perspective. In this paper, we mainly focus on the semiconductor industries in both the U.S. and Japan because the two countries are famous for the semiconductor. In order to cover the whole situation, we linked the \"Assignee/Applicant\" of the Derwent Innovation patent database and company names of a company database for analysis. We achieved this by splitting names into two parts for calculating similarity and matching. With the linkage of the two databases, we dealt data with network science and logistic regression. These practices helped to detect the differences of technology development level between the two countries. Furthermore, with natural language processing, we identified several technology keywords/fields which have influenced M&A in the semiconductor industry recently. Based on these findings, we argue that the future semiconductor industry will meet the diversified needs from society and that in the semiconductor industry, vertical and horizontal M&A prevail alternately.","PeriodicalId":390110,"journal":{"name":"2019 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130147584","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}
Xiaoli Wang, Yun Liu, Defang Yang, Yihan Xu, Meijian Yang
{"title":"Measurement and Comparison of Patent Quality on Typical Emerging Industries in China","authors":"Xiaoli Wang, Yun Liu, Defang Yang, Yihan Xu, Meijian Yang","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893945","url":null,"abstract":"We analyzed the concept of patent quality and the status quo of patent quality evaluation, designed the technical classification systems and patent retrieval strategies, set up a database of patent characteristic information on graphene industry. We constructed the patent quality evaluation system on \"three dimensions — whole process\" from three dimensions that included technical quality, legal quality and economic quality, and from four forming stages that included patent creation, patent application, patent examination and patent authorization. According to totality, compound growth rate, patented authorizer type, technology subfield, quality sub-dimension, etc., we systematically measured patent quality of graphene industry in 31 provinces in China, and compared different characteristics of patent quality. Our conclusions were including characteristics of patent quality in each region, region classifications based on the patent characteristics, distribution of regions with relatively high patent quality, and distribution of regions with high development potentiality for patent quality. We attempted to provide effective reference and accurate direction for further monitoring the patent quality on graphene industry in different regions, formulating policies to improve patent quality and promoting innovative development on related strategic emerging industries.","PeriodicalId":390110,"journal":{"name":"2019 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"18 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114047039","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":"Patient Empowerment via Mobile Personal Health Records and Mobile Health Applications: A Review of the Current Use","authors":"A. Alhomod, Saeed Alzahrani","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893847","url":null,"abstract":"Consumer empowerment has gained a significant attention in the medical field recently, and despite the ambiguity of its definitions, elements and measurement tools, it is apparent that mobile and other communication technology can play a major role in keeping patients informed, involved and empowered. This paper aims to explore methods by which mobile applications contribute to consumer empowerment and allowed enhanced patient control over their health.","PeriodicalId":390110,"journal":{"name":"2019 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114209841","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":"Machine and Human is the New Workspace in Emerging Economies: A Phased Approach as the Strategic Framework to Reach Sustainable Economic System Readiness","authors":"Rendani Mamphiswana, Saurabh Sinha","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893938","url":null,"abstract":"Intelligent technology systems are the new co-workers in the workspace. The wide adoption of these systems in emerging economies, such as South Africa, threatens to worsen unemployment. The expected unprecedented benefits of integrating intelligent technology systems within firms is likely to act as a catalyst for wide, seamless and rapid adoption in emerging economies. This paper proposes a conceptual framework: a phased approach to strategically reach sustainable economic readiness. The proposed conceptual framework defines central mechanisms to guide emerging towards achieving sustainable economic system readiness for human and machine interface in the workspace. An in-depth literature review, on firms' introduction of technologies in the workspace, was conducted, to extract key variables that aided the development of the proposed framework. The research followed a case study approach, where key variables were extracted from literature to compose the proposed framework. The output of this research is envisioned to contribute towards an improved understanding on how emerging economies ought to respond to the coming wave of intelligent technology systems in the workspace. This improved understanding is aimed to be a central enabler in developing suitable policies to manage the impact The next phase of the research would be to select firms within emerging economies to test for causality among variables composing the proposed conceptual framework.","PeriodicalId":390110,"journal":{"name":"2019 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114562601","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":"Digital Transformation Technologies and Capabilities of Technology Utilization: Case Study of Japanese Firms","authors":"Young Won Park, P. Hong, G. Shin","doi":"10.23919/picmet.2019.8893933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/picmet.2019.8893933","url":null,"abstract":"The Digital Transformation megatrend is fundamentally disrupting and changing every industry, business and most jobs at a rapid pace. In particular, most Japanese firms utilize diverse digital technologies to sustain their competitive advantages. However, too often the return of investment on digital technologies is not as high as expected. This paper presents a research model between digital transformation technologies and capabilities of digital technology utilization. We hypothesize that higher capabilities of digital transformation technologies utilization contribute to performance of digital technologies utilization. With several case studies of Japanese firms, we find that higher capabilities of digital technologies have a positive impact on the performance of digital transformation technologies. Lessons and implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":390110,"journal":{"name":"2019 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"10 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132238018","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":"Applying Dynamic Topic Modeling for Understanding the Evolution of the RFID Technology","authors":"Nils M. Denter, Huseyin Caferoglu, M. Moehrle","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893914","url":null,"abstract":"Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is an enabling technology that diffuses into several application fields, such as logistics, finance and medicine. Knowledge about the diffusion's direction into application fields, which have not yet completely been exploited, may help technology managers and scholars to better understand the evolution of the RFID technology. Recent methods are either characterized by high manual efforts or miss the opportunity to directly identify emerging application fields. This leads to the question, which method is suitable for examining a technology's diffusion in a time-oriented and highly automated manner. In this paper, dynamic topic modeling (DTM) is applied for this purpose. Using the same RFID patent data set as in earlier publications, we create a term-document matrix. Subsequent to this, we carry out DTM and thus retrieve relevant topics which represent application fields. Additionally, we identify dynamic shifts in the application fields. Finally, we make a comparison between DTM and topic modeling in particular. We conclude that DTM is more appropriate for measuring the diffusion of a technology into an application field than earlier methods. Apart from generating an overview of application fields, DTM enables the observation of term dynamics in the application fields, and is therefore suitable for managers and scholars interested in technology diffusion.","PeriodicalId":390110,"journal":{"name":"2019 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128526266","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}
Tomotaka Goji, Yuki Hayashi, Hiroko Yamano, Takanari Matsuda, I. Sakata
{"title":"Researchers' “Startup Readiness” in the Biopharmaceutical Domain Assessed Using Logistic Regression for Features of Their Papers, Patents, Institutes, and Nations","authors":"Tomotaka Goji, Yuki Hayashi, Hiroko Yamano, Takanari Matsuda, I. Sakata","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893685","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a method using logistic regression to predict and detect \"startup readiness\" of researchers in the biopharmaceutical domain, and to suggest determinants to improve their \"startup readiness,\" using databases of start-up finances, research papers, patents, academic organizations, and national socioeconomics. This method sorts specific industry segments by which financing activities are active, and by which related growing research topics attract increased academic attention. In research domains such as the biopharmaceutical field, which include pursuit of fundamental scientific understanding and applications intended for immediate use, abundant startups with intense scientific linkage have attracted venture capital financing and entrepreneurship for further R&D opportunities and commercialization. We hypothesized that variables composed of several features of papers, patents, research institutes, and nations related to this domain can well reflect researchers' \"startup readiness.\" Our logistic regression model based on our selected and constructed explanatory variables yielded good predictive and classifying performance, with an AUC value of 0.73. Results carried specific implications about what variables and their combinations demand attention, to encourage the \"startup readiness\" of researchers. More than conventional research methods, our computational approach might provide global, comprehensive, but convenient and real-time understanding of the \"start-up readiness\" of researchers in user-inspired fundamental research.","PeriodicalId":390110,"journal":{"name":"2019 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126052264","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":"Internet of Things and Original Design Manufacturing Business Model: Case Study of COSMAX","authors":"Young Won Park, P. Hong, G. Shin","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893784","url":null,"abstract":"As digital technologies continue to pervade all aspects of life, a number of industries including traditional industries have begun to adopt digital technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In this article, we analyze the case of COSMAX, a global cosmetics ODM business model company. Conducting interviews with top executives we examine how it responds to the fourth industrial revolution such as IoT and AI Since 2014, COSMAX has been introducing the strategic themes such as \"Innovativeness\", \"Simplicity\", and \"Industry No. 1\". It pursues strategies to achieve creativity, speed, flexibility and fusion to cope with the fourth industrial revolution challenges and opportunities.","PeriodicalId":390110,"journal":{"name":"2019 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124803250","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}
Amaury-Alexandre Schaller, Ronald Vatananan-Thesenvitz
{"title":"Business Model Innovation (BMI) Process: A Systematic Literature Review with Bibliometric Analysis","authors":"Amaury-Alexandre Schaller, Ronald Vatananan-Thesenvitz","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893797","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the characteristics of publications related to the topic of business model innovation (BMI) process. In this review, a science-mapping technique was applied to assess 362 Scopus-indexed articles and conference papers concerned with the BMI process. Due to technological progress, competitive changes, or governmental and regulatory alterations, the need to develop and adapt a firm's business model has become an important task to sustain any organizations. The successful adaptation of an existing business model to a new environment closes the gap between the firm's basis of competitive advantage in the industry and its extant resources and capabilities. However, innovating the business model remains one of today's most challenging tasks. The aim of this review is to reveal the size, growth trajectory and geographic distribution of the BMI process knowledge base. Moreover, the goal is to detect key journals, authors and publications, as well as to give an overview of the intellectual structure of the literature and possibly highlight actual trends in the domain of BMI process. The review attested a modest-sized knowledge base concentrated in Western countries. Furthermore, three ‘Schools of Thoughts’ were identified and further explained. It is a first attempt of a bibliometric review for this field, and thus shall give guidance for future research and practical implications.","PeriodicalId":390110,"journal":{"name":"2019 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130214170","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":"Do Directionality and Network Size Affect Network Structure in Online Social Networks?","authors":"N. Mayande, C. Weber","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2019.8893732","url":null,"abstract":"A study of the online social networks of six Twitter conversations about six YouTube product categories reveals that directionality and network size affect the structure of online social networks. Our results indicate that large networks tend to be non-random, regardless of whether they are directional or not, suggesting that structural attributes of the online networks under study are a true reflection of network's features. Smaller non-directional networks also tend to be non-random, whereas smaller directional networks tend to be random in nature. However, very small networks tend to be random in nature, whether they are directional or not. Our results suggest that larger online networks undergo different generation mechanisms than smaller real-world networks, especially if these networks are directional. Extant theory, which is almost exclusively derived from observation of real-world networks, may thus not adequately describe the behavior of online networks. We propose research to remedy this deficiency at the end of this paper.","PeriodicalId":390110,"journal":{"name":"2019 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130443878","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}