{"title":"Managing Collaborative Strategy in 3D Bioprinting Technology","authors":"Keun-hwan Kim, W. Shim, D. So, Seung-Pyo Jun","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481777","url":null,"abstract":"The potential of a three-dimensional bioprinting (3DBP) technology in core applications of the healthcare sector has been paid attention for managing global aging. Currently this technology area is situated in the embryonic stage. Therefore, it is essential to recognize the crucial factors in early stage of industry life cycle which allow firms to increase the rate of survival and the capabilities. Due to the scares resources in young and inexperienced firms, establishing collaborative strategy plays a vital role in supplement such shortcomings. However, as the technological development process has been complicated by converging among heterogeneous technologies, it is difficult to find the potential strategic partners for new entrants. In this study, we suggest the framework to search the technologically suited partners readily and provide detail information to manage relationships among participants. In addition, it is the first exploration to provide insights from the strategic perspective rather than technological one for the entire 3DBP technology industry.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127583492","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":"Technology Planning for Aligning Emerging Business Models and Regulatory Structures — The Case of Electric Vehicle Charging and the Smart Grid","authors":"K. Cowan, T. Daim","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481977","url":null,"abstract":"Smart Grid has the potential to produce over $2 trillion of benefits in the US utility sector over the next 20 years, according to a study by the Electric Power Research Institute. However, the study also projects significant costs of up to $476 billion to achieve these returns. Therefore, while smart grid represents an enormous opportunity, with a benefit-to-cost ratio of nearly 6 to 1, given the enormous financial sums at stake, it is crucial that the planning process for smart grid be done with extreme care. Planning the deployment of smart grid technology in the electric utility sector can be a complex and difficult process due to regulatory frameworks that have evolved to protect consumers, the need for development of standards regarding numerous emerging technologies, and the need for emerging business models which can fit with these evolving technology and regulatory frameworks. Technology roadmapping provides a number of useful tools which can help with the planning of smart grid development, but a highly integrated approach is needed to accommodate the full range of factors mentioned.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127009636","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":"Offshore Wind Energy Research Trajectory and Trends","authors":"Chih-Hung Hsieh, L. Y. Lu, C. Lin, John S. Liu","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481999","url":null,"abstract":"Offshore wind power (OWP) is an important green technology owing to its stability and sites for OWP projects (wind farms) are easily obtainable. The authors reviewed 2,217 papers collected from Scopus and used main path analysis (a citation analysis method) to determine the trends in OWP studies. Based on their analysis, they categorized some OWP concepts, including wind farm model, wind farm monitoring, wind speed measurement and analysis, cost and economic analysis, and floating OWP. Furthermore, they found that OWP can be combined with a wave energy unit to generate stable electric power. It is important to monitor the wind turbines of large OWP plants, and OWP plants should be located far from the shore. In this case, floating OWP is more economical than fixed OWP. In addition, high-voltage direct current (HVDC) is more feasible then high-voltage alternating current (HVAC) in terms of cost and stability. However, the magnetic effect of OWP on fishes, plants, and fishermen is uncertain. The European Union plans to install OWP capacity of 40 GW by 2020 and 150 GW by 2030. The results of this study can guide policy making and investment decisions.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"17 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121019101","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":"How do Influences of Funding and Funded Organizations Affect Performance of Publicly-Supported Private R&D Projects?","authors":"Y. Aoshima, Kazunari Matsushima, Naoki Takada","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481915","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the factors leading to the success of publicly-funded private R&D projects by analyzing survey data obtained from 506 projects supported by NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization), Japan's public funding organization under Mistry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). We examined how involvement of both the funded firm and the funding organization in the project affects the project's commercialization performance. Our analyses showed that the project with higher strategic importance and stronger executive involvement was beneficial since it enabled the project to effectively leverage the company's internal resources. On the other hand, the funding organization's involvement had positive effects on performance only when the company showed low commitment to and weak involvement in the project; it had no or negative effect on performance with higher commitment and involvement from the company side. Our findings suggest that the success or failure of the publicly-funded private R&D is greatly related to the strategic position of the project within the company. This implies that assessing the company's in-house factors in addition to the potential of a technology is important in selecting funding projects, and that the funding organization should find an appropriate way of managing the project depending on project's strategic position.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126040697","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":"Research on the Improvement of Citizen's Scientific Literacy and Its Contribution to Economic Growth in Mainland China","authors":"He Li","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481771","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the human capital theory and the related data from 1999 to 2015 in mainland Chin. This paper uses the TFP model to analyze the relationship between the improvement of citizen's scientific literacy and economic growth. The analysis shows that the contribution of capital investment to economic growth is the main factor. There is evidenced a significant positive effect of citizen's scientific literacy on the nations economic growth along with the significant effect of the improvement of the peoples physical health on economic growth. The article also analyzes the impact of economic growth from the four aspects of the composition of scientific literacy, those are scientific knowledge, scientific method, scientific attitude and the relationship between science and society. The four aspects of the formation of scientific quality have significant and different effects on economic growth.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"45 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127329715","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":"Structural Analysis for Diffusion using Simulation in Agent-Based Modeling with Multi Micro Factor","authors":"Kazuhide Namba","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481888","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces analysis of structure for diffusion. Because of diffusion as individual level agent-based modeling and multi agent simulation about diffusion are effective. Previous research shows the factor related agent are the consumer behavior and the information network. In this research the other factor was added. As a result of addition, the factor is multi. The factor is micro not macro. Micro means the factor is changed in diffusion process. The factor both multi and micro are reflected to agent-based modeling. Multi agent simulation by agent-based modeling was done. As a result of simulation, we could produce diffusion phenomenon. Because of multi micro factor complicated phenomenon could be produced. Example of complicated phenomenon is chasm or inverse chasm. Complicated phenomenon depends on the factor. Originality about this research is that the structure for diffusion was revealed by consideration of simulation result. The structure for diffusion consists of the consumer behavior and the information network.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124414879","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}
Hong Miao, Yan Wang, Lucheng Huang, Feifei Wu, Xin Li
{"title":"Analysis on Technology Convergence Mechanism using Weighted Gene Co-expression Network","authors":"Hong Miao, Yan Wang, Lucheng Huang, Feifei Wu, Xin Li","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481797","url":null,"abstract":"Technology convergence is a hot research topic within a challenging field. It is of great significance to analyze the fusion mechanism and mine the key technologies that affect technology convergence, which can guide the development of technology fusion and improve the independent innovation capability of enterprises. It is a novel idea to introduce genetic engineering into the process of technological innovation and convergence as the similar recombination process they both have. In this study, weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA), which is based on the similarity measure of a topological overlap structure, was utilized in the analysis of the International Patent Classification (IPC) of patents. In this analysis, the gene with a high correlation was identified as a \"technical gene module\" using the dynamic tree cut algorithm. Furthermore, hub technology genes, which are highly related to technology fusion and have high connectivity in the module, could be obtained. This study revealed the internal relationships present in technologies and provided novel ideas for researching the fusion mechanism of technology convergence.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123406855","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":"Evaluation Method of Patent Scope Based on Semantic Information of Words and Dependency Structure of Patent Claims","authors":"Hiroaki Tanaka, Y. Nakashio, Y. Kajikawa","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481865","url":null,"abstract":"In patent documents, the \"claim\" is the most important section because the patent scope is interpreted based on the description of claims. However, because claims are expressed as sentences, the scope and boundaries of patents tend to be ambiguous. Prior studies have not been able to visualize the scope of a claim because they did not include the semantic range of words. Therefore, we develop a method to visualize the description of claims and the patent scope using natural language processing. Specifically, in order to visualize patent claims, we introduce the semantic range of words using the hierarchical structure of words provided by WordNet. Then, we apply the proposed method to two patents included in \"PageRank\" technology. The results show that parent patents are wider than child patents.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121588921","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":"Methodology for Determining Agile Product Scopes in Development Projects","authors":"G. Schuh, C. Dölle, F. Diels, M. Kuhn","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481926","url":null,"abstract":"In today's fast-paced and unpredictable business environment, manufacturing companies are exposed to increasingly dynamic market conditions and volatilely changing customer expectations. Therefore, a complete definition of requirement specifications is often not possible, as customer needs in early development phases may strongly differ from needs in advanced phases. One way to encounter these challenges is the application of agile methods from software industry to the development of physical products. However, companies face high barriers during the implementation of agile methods in physical product development. This paper introduces a methodology to determine the application suitability of agile methods for highly interconnected physical products by using Agile Indicators. Agile Indicators are metrics that support the decision-making process for or against agile development methods at the level of individual product scopes. In order to do so, a classification of different types of development questions derived from uncertain requirements is presented. Subsequently, product scopes are determined in accordance with the existing development questions. In a next step, the derived product scopes are evaluated with Agile Indicators and the interdependencies between product scopes are analyzed. Based on this analysis a final selection of product scopes for agile development can be conducted.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"488 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123559858","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":"Disruption or New Order?: The Emergence of the Unicorn Bike-Sharing Entrepreneurship in China","authors":"A. Say, R. Guo, C. Chen","doi":"10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481864","url":null,"abstract":"The most significant and successful technological entrepreneurship in Asia in 2017 is perhaps the start-up and diffusion of the bike sharing service in China. While bike-sharing system has long been an initiative taken primarily by city governments to improve the city transport, the top 2 private start-up businesses of and Mobike from China, sweep the market with unprecedented bike penetration and user growth, despite the social disorder of chaotic bike-parking and deserted bikes. This paper examines how this innovative technological entrepreneurship fulfills the users' needs, fills the market gap and revamps the game rules by new business models. Furthermore, the challenges faced by the start-ups in profit generation and business sustainability will also be discussed. Case study approach is adopted where secondary data were analyzed and face-to-face interview with the executive was conducted to identify the factors driving the innovation diffusion and the new business model. This paper aims to fill the research gap in the technological entrepreneurship with the new business model in the emerging sharing economy start-ups, as well as to provide insights to sharing economy business management especially in China context.","PeriodicalId":444748,"journal":{"name":"2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131567342","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}