{"title":"Accelerating COVID-19 Vaccine Production via Involuntary Technology Transfer","authors":"O. Gurgula","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3926234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3926234","url":null,"abstract":"This policy brief explains that the currently discussed proposals at the WTO related to increasing the production of COVID-19 vaccines, including the EU proposal to clarify the use of compulsory licensing and the submission by South Africa and India on the intellectual property (‘IP’) waiver, require complementary mechanisms to rapidly improve the production of COVID-19 vaccines that is urgently needed today. The key problem is that to accelerate the manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines, access to knowledge and know-how, which are protected by trade secrets owned by several pharmaceutical companies, is required. It is, therefore, important that governments implement an additional mechanism of compulsory licensing of trade secrets that would allow an involuntary transfer of COVID-19 vaccine technologies. Such a mechanism would be compliant with the TRIPS Agreement and be relevant both in case of the adoption of the TRIPS IP waiver and if such a mechanism cannot be agreed upon. While this mechanism must provide full access to the information necessary to manufacture the vaccine in question, it must also ensure the protection of the transferred trade secrets.","PeriodicalId":437878,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Technology Transfer (Topic)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125155029","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}
Vicente Zafrilla Díaz-Marta, Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis
{"title":"Open Standards and Open Source: Characterisation and Typologies","authors":"Vicente Zafrilla Díaz-Marta, Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3632406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3632406","url":null,"abstract":"Open standards and open source have become essential for ICT markets from an innovation, business, technical, and policy approach. Openness is one of the core values in standardisation settings. When it comes to the definition of ‘open’, some views have pointed to a ‘clear-cut’ division between open and close standards. Rather than a pure binary approach this paper holds that the openness of a standard is a matter of degree, and moreover, that openness should be referred to three different dimensions: innovation; standardisation and intellectual property exploitation. This paper sets a taxonomy of the different existing typologies of ICT standards and aims to evaluate their degree of openness in each of these dimensions. The main objective is to propose a framework for assessing the openness of ICT standards - which might be useful to understand and analyse the competitive and innovative dynamics of each type of open standards.","PeriodicalId":437878,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Technology Transfer (Topic)","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122688279","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":"Blockchain and other Distributed Ledger Technologies: Where is the Accounting?","authors":"M. Gietzmann, F. Grossetti","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3507602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3507602","url":null,"abstract":"In a recent survey of academic research, Fintech topics broadly classified as cryptocurrency studies, were by far the most researched topics in the social sciences. What is perhaps surprising is that even though cryptocurrencies rely on a distributed accounting ledger technology, relatively few of those recent studies were conducted by accounting academics. While some of the features of a system like Bitcoin including the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus, do not rely on a traditional accounting knowledge base (instead locating in the realms of cryptography and computer science) that does not necessarily imply that other potentially useful distributed ledger designs are also required to rely on such extreme (accounting free) features that arise in the Bitcoin environment. Building on a foundational framework developed by Risius and Spohrer (2017), we provide support for their hypothesis that to date research in this area has been predominantly of a somewhat narrow focus, based upon exploiting existing programming solutions without adequately considering the fundamental needs of users. We provide a wider appreciation of value creation and governance issues by considering four applied classes of problems where a blockchain (distributed ledger) could add value without requiring a cryptocurrency to be an integral part of the functioning system. We show how accounting knowledge is still relevant when one shifts from centralized to decentralized systems. We contribute to the debate on the development of (cryptocurrency free) value creating distributed systems by proposing that accounting knowledge has a potentially much wider impact than just narrowly in the areas of auditing and operations management.","PeriodicalId":437878,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Technology Transfer (Topic)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122356867","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 Role of Incubators in Overcoming Technology Ventures’ Resource Gaps at Different Development Stages","authors":"Ayna Yusubova, Petra Andries, B. Clarysse","doi":"10.1111/radm.12378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12378","url":null,"abstract":"Although incubation is considered important for overcoming resource challenges in technology ventures' early life, there is a doubt about its relevance in later development stages, when the initial idea is commercialized and the venture tries to grow. Building on the resource-based view of the firm and on a stage-based perspective of venture development, this study argues that the resource gaps facing technology ventures differ between different development stages, and that the support provided by incubators therefore needs to be adapted to the venture's development stage. We study the interaction between the iMinds incubator, located in Flanders, and eight technology ventures in its portfolio. In the Conception and Development stage, we observe resource gaps in terms of technical knowledge and access to end users, which the incubator addresses by offering direct technical support and access to its research and end user network. The subsequent Commercialization stage is dominated by business knowledge gaps, which the incubator amends through direct coaching and trainings. In the Growth stage, ventures typically lack the necessary team members, market players, and follow-up financiers to grow their firm. The incubator addresses these resource gaps by providing access to its network. In all development stages, the incubator's internal knowledge base, networking capabilities, and matching focus/selectivity are crucial in order for ventures to benefit from the incubator's support. Our study suggests that these underlying capabilities can either be developed organically, or through the merger of different research institutes. Moreover, it points to the importance of local embeddedness for the geographical extension of these capabilities. These findings contribute to the literature on incubation and on venture development. They have important implications for policy makers, incubation managers, and entrepreneurs seeking incubation support.","PeriodicalId":437878,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Technology Transfer (Topic)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114677003","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":"Cost Model for Establishing a Data Center","authors":"Doaa Bliedy, Sherif A. Mazen, Ehab Ezzat","doi":"10.5121/IJCSEA.2018.8402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJCSEA.2018.8402","url":null,"abstract":"Servers and other IT devices inside datacenters have hardware component and other software or virtual component. Some programs are required to create and secure everything related to the virtual environment on IT devices. These programs can be free or require a pre-paid license to be accessed .Most of the proposed datacenter total cost of ownership (TCO) models focus only on calculating the costs of the hardware component of IT devices and they ignore the costs of the other virtual component.In this paper, we present a cost model for building a datacenter and provide through it an analysis way to calculate the IT software license cost. Our model helps in solving a real problem in faculty of computers and information which plans to establish a datacenter. Our model can help the faculty administrators to know how much money they need to buy the IT devices and how much IT software license cost. We also calculate the cost of the power distribution equipment(PDU) and the uninterruptable power supply (UPS) systems which are required for operating the IT devices. The cost of the cooling systems that take the heat away once the power is consumed from IT devices, PDU devices and UPS systems is also calculated in our model.","PeriodicalId":437878,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Technology Transfer (Topic)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127972955","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":"Technologische vernieuwing en vernieuwing van ethiek en recht (Technological Innovation and Innovation of Ethics and Law – Inaugural Lecture)","authors":"A. Vedder","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3463616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3463616","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Dutch Abstract:</b> Er zijn drie valkuilen voor ethici en juristen die zich met technologische vernieuwing bezig houden:<br><br>- de fixatie op technologische ontwikkeling in plaats van op transformaties in de leefwereld <br><br>- het haast inherente conservatisme van ethiek en recht, en <br><br>- het negativisme ten aanzien van techniek dat de Europese beschaving vanaf het begin eigen is.<br>Waarom zouden juist ethici en juristen moeten waken om niet in de genoemde valkuilen te stappen? Zij kunnen een belangrijke bijdrage leveren aan de acceptatie of juist weigering van nieuwe technologie door de regulatoire voorwaarden te scheppen waaronder beoogde gebruikers erop kunnen vertrouwen dat risico’s vermeden of gecompenseerd worden. Doordachtheid gekoppeld aan voorzichtig optimisme vrij van vooroordelen lijkt daarbij op zijn plaats.<br><br><br><b>English Abstract:</b> Ethicists and legal scholars reflecting on technological innovations should reckon with three pitfalls:<br><br>– a fixation on technological development instead of transformations in practices and action patterns caused (in part) by the technological developments<br><br>– an inherent conservatism of ethics and law, and<br><br>– the negativism or, at least, ambivalent attitude regarding technique and technology characteristic of Western civilization since its very beginnings.<br><br>Ethicists and legal scholars can play an important role in the adoption or refusal of new technologies by intended users, by contributing to an appropriate normative and regulatory context in which the intended users can trust the new technology. This role should be critical, but not be thwarted by the biases mentioned.","PeriodicalId":437878,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Technology Transfer (Topic)","volume":"167 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123137052","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}
J. García‐Quevedo, F. Mas-Verdu, Gabriele Pellegrino
{"title":"What Firms Don’t Know Can Hurt Them: Overcoming a Lack of Information on Technology","authors":"J. García‐Quevedo, F. Mas-Verdu, Gabriele Pellegrino","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3091568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3091568","url":null,"abstract":"The availability of information on technology is a key factor in the innovation process. Firms that lack such information thereby face a major barrier to innovation. Yet little is known about the types of companies that lack this information. This paper examines what characterises firms that lack information on technology and analyses how innovative companies can overcome this gap in their knowledge. Empirical analysis was conducted with the Panel of Technological Innovation (PITEC), based on the information from the Spanish version of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS). The analysis leads to three principal conclusions. First, a large number of firms perceive the lack of information on technology as a barrier to innovation. Second, there are notable sector differences in the way firms perceive this barrier: High-tech firms perceive lower levels of this barrier. Third, not all sources of information on technology are equally effective at overcoming this barrier. The most useful sources are consultants, commercial laboratories and private R&D institutes.","PeriodicalId":437878,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Technology Transfer (Topic)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116017770","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":"Resolution Powers Over E-Money Providers","authors":"Katharine Kemp, Ross P. Buckley","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.3002927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.3002927","url":null,"abstract":"E-money has grown dramatically in a number of countries of late, often driven by non-bank providers of e-money, particularly telecommunications companies. Many countries have regulated the issuance of e-money, but in times of trouble there is usually a discrepancy in the treatment of bank and non-bank issuers. When a bank experiences financial distress, legislation normally grants an authority resolution powers to ensure an orderly winding up while limiting systemic disruption and losses to deposit holders. These resolution powers do not usually extend to non-bank e-money providers, notwithstanding the potential disruption the collapse of a large provider could now cause in some countries. This paper proposes three approaches, legislative and non-legislative, to granting resolution powers in respect of e-money providers to limit losses and preserve systemic stability.","PeriodicalId":437878,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Technology Transfer (Topic)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122597863","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":"Core Banking Software (CBS) Implementation Challenges of e-Banking: An Exploratory Study on Bangladeshi Banks","authors":"M. A. Rahman, X. Qi","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2884269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2884269","url":null,"abstract":"Banking and financial sectors all around the world have embraced ICT to facilitate their customers with efficient services and innovative products through multi-channel. The central engine that runs the core operations of the banking and financial institution is the Core Banking Software (CBS). The operational efficiency of a bank largely depends on the CBS. Moreover, it determines what a bank can offer in the future. In Bangladesh, ICT embracement has got momentum in the last decade. Some first mover banks in Bangladesh are in the process of CBS upgradation, and some other banks are trying to implement CBS to improve competitiveness, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance. However, CBS implementation has challenges; improper attention to these challenges may result in poor CBS performance. This exploratory study tried to identify the challenges that commercial banks in Bangladesh encounter in the process of core banking system implementation or upgradation. Factor analysis has been used to analyze data from 153 respondents from seven commercial banks. This study found three primary sources (factors) of CBS implementation challenges: management, technology and vendor. These factors include: consensus on requirements, the role of employees, vendor capabilities and credentials, the software flexibility, user friendliness, capability to meet requirements, employee skill set required and data migration. The findings may help the academicians to explore the factors in other cultures, countries and cross-industry. It will also help the banking practitioners to concentrate on this challenging area to better implement and upgrade the core banking software in future.","PeriodicalId":437878,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Technology Transfer (Topic)","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116960700","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 Nature of Digital Transformation","authors":"N. Ochara","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2804294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2804294","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the nature of digital transformation from a conceptual perspective. We consider digital transformation as the changes associated with the application of digital technology in all aspects of human life. The emphasis is that digital technology is now part of human life, and that human beings increasingly experience the world with, through and by information technology. A human – technology interactions perspective is presented which underpin the process of digital transformation as based on embodied, hermeneutic and alterity relationships. Thus, the process of digital transformation is argued to impact on three major domains of human activity: governance, commerce and individual/knowledge society. These domains are impacted by the process of digitalization at three levels. Based on the argumentation developed, we then conceptualize digital transformation as change enabled by and intertwined with IT, which impacts on product and process innovations as well as innovative ways of organizing human affairs (governance, business models, and individual/society life-worlds).","PeriodicalId":437878,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Technology Transfer (Topic)","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124737081","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}