{"title":"Adapting Technological Capabilities for World Digital Business: The Case of Netflix","authors":"Santiago Ruiz-Navas, K. Miyazaki","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125430","url":null,"abstract":"Technological capabilities are tied to the strategy of a company supported by the concepts of path dependence and absorptive capacities, they describe the fields that help the company to achieve its strategical objectives. This paper objective is to analyze Netflix change in technological fields through the time and compare these changes with two strategic moments, start to provide VOD service and the decision to go global. Two research questions are proposed 1) which are Netflix's technological capabilities in time, 2) How the technological capabilities change in the two strategical moments, Netflix start of provision of VOD service in 2007 and Netflix decision to provide services abroad in 2010. Longitudinal systematic descriptive analysis of Netflix's patents IPC codes is done, in order to get some insights of NETFLIX's change of technological capabilities in time. Three changes in Netflix technological capabilities were detected, 2000-2006 as an IT based retailer, when started to provide VOD service in 2007-2009 it had a technological focus on TV digital processing and parallel processing and as last 2010-2013 when they announced to start providing international VOD service, their patents' focus was TV digital processing, data processing systems and communication infrastructure.","PeriodicalId":438177,"journal":{"name":"2017 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"195 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":"129373860","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":"Science Communication and Culture in Rural China: A Case Study of Xiachen Village in Zhejiang Province","authors":"Lihui Wang, N. Zheng","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125449","url":null,"abstract":"The study of public's attitude towards science and technology has been a substantive feature of science communication, with the rapid development of science and technology, the characteristics of science as a kind of culture has become increasingly evident. In order to investigate Chinese rural residents' attitude towards science and technology, we conducted a survey through questionnaire in Xiachen village of Zhejiang Province, with a series of face to face interviews of fifteen people. The finding of this study are: 1)Almost all respondents agree with a positive opinion of science and scientist; 2) More than 40% percent residents believe fortune-telling, face reading and fengshui, especialy a certain percentage of old people who have religious practices; 3)for rural residents, science and technology is a part of life and a method of making living. Based on the above conclusions and interviews, this study also gives some suggestions on science communication in Chinese rural areas.","PeriodicalId":438177,"journal":{"name":"2017 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"1 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":"129521381","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":"Prediction of Business Partners Using an N-Gram-Based Approach that Combines a Network Model and Linear Model of a Supply Chain","authors":"H. Sasaki, I. Sakata","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125410","url":null,"abstract":"Supply chains are viewed as networks of both goods and services, and knowledge and information. Their knowledge will be potential resources for new business relationship with hidden partners; however, many companies find it difficult to develop new opportunities. A recommendation of a potential partner is helpful for regional revitalization. Research into supply chains has shifted from a linear model to a network model. A network model using graph theory can topologically explain a supply chain, whereas, in a linear model, there are some differences with the real world because of a lack of information. In this study, we propose a prediction model for a new business partnership with predictors extracted from network and linear approaches used in combination for the prediction of performance and interpretability. Our dataset consisted of a network of 327,012 transactions among 131,192 companies in Northeast Japan, which was retrieved from supplier-customer relationship data provided by Teikoku Databank, Ltd. Network centralities were extracted as topological features from the network of each company. Trigram relationships were also extracted from the network motif so that the logistic flow to a company from its supplier could be used to predict customers as business partners. The results showed that the performance of the proposed model was excellent, with a high contribution of probability extracted from the trigram relationships. From this perspective, we found that the information of logistics flows is a critical factor for predicting a potential partner, even in a network model.","PeriodicalId":438177,"journal":{"name":"2017 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"27 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":"124524162","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":"Benchmarking of Technology Roadmapping Process in Energy Sector: A Literature Review","authors":"Chih-Jen Yu, T. Daim","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125438","url":null,"abstract":"Technology roadmapping (TRM) has been recognized as an effective and flexible technology planning tool to assist company, industry, or nations to layout their strategic technology needs and align their vision and strategic objectives. Technology roadmap have been developed into various types and formats, by means of generic or customized processes, to suit specific organizational requirement in different industry settings such as energy sector. However, evaluating the effectiveness of roadmapping process remains a critical issue for roadmap updating and improvement. This paper proposes a benchmark approach based on a literature review to help develop a comparative model with required checklists.","PeriodicalId":438177,"journal":{"name":"2017 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"33 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":"130175238","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":"Energy Efficiency Measures in Oregon Instructional School Facilities Implemented Under SB 1149, and Improved Student Performance","authors":"V. Saraswati, Timothy Hulseman, J. Bauer","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125275","url":null,"abstract":"Energy generation, transmission, and distribution, requires a costly infrastructure to meet increasing demand. The success of energy efficiency measures (EEM's) are largely based on cumulative energy and cost savings. This research attempts to add improved student learning to the list of benefits when implementing EEM's in instructional school facilities. Our literature review of current research demonstrates that maximizing natural daylight in the design of school buildings reduces energy consumption, as well as improves student performance [1]. Additionally, EEM's can benefit student performance through direct and indirect environmental improvements that enhance usability, productivity, and comfort [2]. Through statistical analysis of data collected by the Oregon Department of Energy and the Oregon Department of Education, student mathematics assessment passing rates, before and after EEM implementations, are compared and analyzed using a panel analysis methodology and a simple pooled regression. The result of our research finds a positive significant correlation between EEM's and improved student performance. An average increase in mathematics assessment passing rates of 0.3808% after EEM implementation, provides a basis for further analysis. Finally, this research aims to promote energy conservation projects in instructional school facilities, by identifying improved student learning in addition to already established cost-savings, and environmental benefits.","PeriodicalId":438177,"journal":{"name":"2017 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"151 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":"127286822","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}
R. Quadros, Edmundo Inacio Junior, I. Egler, A. Tavares, R. Quintao, Daniel Monaco, G. Vieira
{"title":"Diffusion of Innovation Management Practices in Manufacturing Industry in Brazil: Comparing Multinational Subsidiariesto Brazilian National Firms","authors":"R. Quadros, Edmundo Inacio Junior, I. Egler, A. Tavares, R. Quintao, Daniel Monaco, G. Vieira","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125379","url":null,"abstract":"The paper addresses the building of innovation management capabilities at firm level in emerging economies by investigating the adoption of innovation management practices in Brazilian manufacturing firms. Innovation management practices in this paper encompass innovation strategy design, innovation management processes and tools and innovation networking practices. The paper investigates how Brazilian subsidiaries of multinational corporations which carry out R&D and innovation activities compare to firms controlled by Brazilian nationals in terms of diffusion of innovation management practices. In order to investigate empirically these issues, a survey of an intentional sample of 65 Brazilian firms was carried out in 2015. The survey comprised the application of an electronic structured questionnaire supported by visits and extensive interviews aimed at collecting evidence. Findings indicate that subsidiaries of multinational corporations in Brazil have presented higher rate of diffusion of innovation management practices and developed more capabilities than their local competitors. Nevertheless, Brazilian national firms have shown higher profile in adoption of practices related to technology intelligence and networking with Brazilian public research institutions. Amongst factors explaining such differences and nuances, firms' marketing and technology strategies and the span of their R&D function scope stand out.","PeriodicalId":438177,"journal":{"name":"2017 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"43 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":"121133477","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":"VR/AR Technologies' Cross Boundary Contribution to Cultural Inheritance: A Qualitative Study Based on the Cases from China and Japan","authors":"Yu Song, Jixin Zhao, T. Shibata","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125270","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the introduction of VR/AR technologies has drawn great attention from all over the world. Such technologies have been applied to multiple fields, including automotive telematics and culture creatives. As part of culture industry, cultural inheritance may also be significantly stimulated by technology integration, including regional and international culture renaissance as well as education of culture. In Internet age, cultural communication and globalization have formed a global market with great potential, for both material and intangible cultures. The situation for culture inheritance might also be greatly improved by the help of such frontier technologies. This paper will pay particular attention to the changes that VR/AR technologies could potentially make to traditional culture inheritance cause, especially from the aspect of cross industry open innovation in Internet-age. We will try to investigate VR/AR's applications and the upcoming contributions to cultural inheritance. This research is based on the investigations to a series of evidences in China, together with a complementary case from Japan. Mainly, the changes to macro environment and industry structure will be discussed, which are concluded and generalized based on all cases.","PeriodicalId":438177,"journal":{"name":"2017 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"26 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":"125800619","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}
Ying Huang, A. Porter, Yi Zhang, Ying Guo, Donghua Zhu
{"title":"Validating the Earlier Analyses and Forecasting on Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs)","authors":"Ying Huang, A. Porter, Yi Zhang, Ying Guo, Donghua Zhu","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125293","url":null,"abstract":"Newly Emerging Science and Technologies (NESTs) bring numerous innovation opportunities and challenges. At the same time, the highly uncertain dynamics of NESTs pose special challenges to traditional technology forecasting tools. Dye-Sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), a promising third-generation photovoltaic technology, can add functionality and lower costs, enhancing the value proposition of solar power generation in the early years of the 21st century. We have analyzed DSSCs R&D activity patterns and trends through a series of studies in the past several years, and come to realize the validation analyses is useful to improve the Science, Technology & Innovation (ST&I) policy processes. Yet, rarely do we revisit forecasts or projections to ascertain how well they fared. One of our aim is to check accuracy, to gain some sense of how valid those studies were and whether they proved useful to others in some ways. Additionally, we want to assess the degree to which such future-oriented analyses did or did not make good use of available information. Moreover, we seek indications of what information is key, and how Future-oriented technology analyses (FTA) processes can better utilize such information.","PeriodicalId":438177,"journal":{"name":"2017 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"77 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":"125995654","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}
Yi Zhang, Ying Huang, A. Porter, Guangquan Zhang, Jie Lu
{"title":"Discovering Interactions in Big Data Research: A Learning-Enhanced Bibliometric Study","authors":"Yi Zhang, Ying Huang, A. Porter, Guangquan Zhang, Jie Lu","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125292","url":null,"abstract":"As one of the most representative emerging technologies, big data analytics and its related applications are rapidly leading the development of information technologies and are significantly shaping thinking and behavior in today's interconnected world. Exploring the technological evolution of big data research is an effective way to enhance technology management and create value for research and development strategies for both government and industry. This paper uses a learning-enhanced bibliometric study to discover interactions in big data research by detecting and visualizing its evolutionary pathways. Concentrating on a set of 5840 articles derived from Web of Science covering the period between 2000 and 2015, text mining and bibliometric techniques are combined to profile the hotspots in big data research and its core constituents. A learning process is used to enhance the ability to identify the interactive relationships between topics in sequential time slices, revealing technological evolution and death. The outputs include a landscape of interactions within big data research from 2000 to 2015 with a detailed map of the evolutionary pathways of specific technologies. Empirical insights for related studies in science policy, innovation management, and entrepreneurship are also provided.","PeriodicalId":438177,"journal":{"name":"2017 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"4 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":"125411636","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 Time Trend of the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Labor Market: The Moderation Effect of Production Technology","authors":"Tsung-Han Ke, Hung-Chun Huang, Hsin-Yu Shih","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2017.8125271","url":null,"abstract":"Foreign direct investment plays a major role in international production. Studies have suggested the impact of international production on the wage rate of labor market, often have different results and argument. Under the trend of globalization, the purpose of this study will investigate the impact of foreign direct investment on the employee compensation of agriculture, industry and services sectors. In the past literatures, also indicate that there exists positive correlation between international production and production technology, and there exists connection between production technology and labor wage. Thus, this study investigates the moderation effect of production technology between foreign direct investment and employee compensation. The dataset is consisted of the members of Organisation for economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, and the period is from 2000 to 2014. The empirical analysis is using structural equation modeling (SEM) to explore the relationship of foreign direct investment, employee compensation, and production technology, where the factor of production technology is classified into the development of science and technology, and the accumulation of human capital to compare the effect of exogenous technology and endogenous technology. The main goals of this study are to resolve the trend of the influence level of employee compensation, and the trend of the effect of production technology.","PeriodicalId":438177,"journal":{"name":"2017 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"1 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":"127504870","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}