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From 2011 onwards, thanks to the Industry 4.0 concept referring to the fourth industrial revolution, different technologies have emerged with the main objective of achieving increased productivity. One of the main technologies related to Industry 4.0 is collaborative robots, also known as cobots, whose main feature is an intelligent real-time labor...
The world is subject to continuous changes, many posing great threats to companies, so each company needs to create and develop strategies aimed at obtaining competitive advantages that allow them to achieve, maintain and improve the position within its socioeconomic sphere. In the ongoing battle to be competitive, evident in the current market, co...
Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 technologies represent the new strategic paths of the manufacturing industry to retain the globalized market competitiveness. However, few studies have attempted to analyze the impact of scholarly works related to those technologies in results obtained from R&D developments, such as patents. Therefore, the ai...
Purpose: The main objective of this research is to design an Organizational Culture Transformation Model (OCTM) prototype, in order to enable a High Performance Organization (HPO).
Design/methodology/approach: There are three main processes involved in the methodology. Two of them, the definition of the main OCTM work elements as an initial hypothe...
During the last decade, different concepts, methodologies, and technologies have appeared, evolving industry toward what we know today as the fourth industrial evolution or Industry 4.0 (I4.0) and Advanced Manufacturing (AM). Based on both, Supply Chain (SC) is presented as the relevant process that sets the sustainability of manufacturing and, the...
Companies are increasingly obliged to collaborate with each other if they wantto be innovative, and this growing transfer of knowledge takes place in acontext of Open Innovation. To study these scientific-technologicalcollaboration networks within an Open Innovation context, the case study ofIberdrola, a Spanish business group dedicated to the prod...
Current enterprises face organizational and cultural barriers to adopt and harness the potential of strategic emerging technologies. Late adoption of these technologies will affect competitiveness from which it will be hard to recover. Within the frame of technology analysis field, the present work aims at introducing an approach to obtain the char...
This paper researches the reasons and expected benefits of Spanish non-financial listed companies for disclosing risk information as well as the possible motivations for not doing so. It investigates the current situation of risk disclosure but also looks forward and studies what it will be like in the near future. In view of an increasingly inform...
Knowledge flow of technology is important for continuous growth and extension of science. Patent data analysis has facilitated this knowledge acquisition. The available patent information crosses borders, corresponds and interacts with new inventions to give new strength and dimension to the technology. Therefore, the patent citation information fu...
This paper presents a method for the identification of the “technology fronts”—core technological solutions—underlying a certain broad technology, and the characterization of their change dynamics. We propose an approach based on the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model combined with patent data analysis and text mining techniques for the identi...
The digital interconnection of the machines through the Internet is generating the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). These "smart machines" are already transforming a wide variety of sectors, from manufacturing and agriculture to health and transport. This study aims to visualize and analyze the flows of technological knowledge leading to innovat...
Emerging Technologies are having a huge impact in the income statement of current enterprises and therefore they must be adopted as soon as possible. Thus, any attempt to introduce the characteristics and evolution of this kind of technologies is helpful for decision makers. In this sense, this paper aims at depicting Big Data, one of these cutting...
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El presente trabajo de investigación pretende describir las características particulares de ESTIA (École Supérieur des Technologies Industrielles Avancées) y del efecto que las últimas reformas legales han podido tener en la organización y en el funcionamiento de ESTIA, así como en la satisfacción laboral de los docentes. La investigación concluye...
DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.01.015
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One of the biggest challenges for current enterprises is the adoption of emerging technologies as soon as these provide competitive improvements. In this sense, several types of technology forecasting and surveillance activities are present in their daily activity. From the academic point of vi...
Migrating to cloud computing is one of the current enterprise challenges. In this sense, the small and medium enterprise should be the most interested, given that initial investments are avoided and the technology offers gradual implementation. However, 54.9 % of SMEs confess that they have no knowledge of cloud technology. Accordingly, this paper...
This paper categorizes in terms of size, the behaviour of the Basque small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the use of information technology (IT) tools as enablers of knowledge management practices. As part of this research, this article concludes as well about the suitability of collaborative tools in organic and flexible less informal orga...
Migrating to cloud computing is one of the current enterprise challenges. This
technology provides a new paradigm based on "on-demand payment" for information
and communication technologies. In this sense, the small and medium enterprise is
supposed to be the most interested, since initial investments are avoided and the
technology allows gradual i...
This paper aims at proposing a novel approach to gathering and structuring information concerning an emerging technology, generating a relevant profile, identifying its past evolution, forecasting the short and medium-term evolution and integrating all of the elements graphically into a hybrid roadmap. The approach combines four families of technol...
The databases of patents are considerable, with many authors, as a source of information very valuable within the innovation process. One of the most important methods in patent analysis is based on the citations. The basic concept of patent citation analysis is that there exists a technological linkage between two patents if a patent cites the oth...
This article's objectives are to analyze the trends related to knowledge management process in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and to compare these findings with the conclusions of other research studies designed for SMEs and to examine the level of formality in knowledge management processes according to the size of enterprise. As well,...
This study uses the new global patent map developed by Kay et al. (2014) to reflect the patenting activity of Spain together with the activity of the Basque Country, a highly industrialised region in Spain, for the time interval 2000-2006. The global patent map reflects the technology categories where a patent could be categorised according to the...
Characterization of waste recycling (WR) research has to start by defining the scope of this scientific area. Previous works and expert assessment recommend the adoption of an inclusive definition, with the aim of including all relevant uses of waste within this study. An ad-hoc designed “capture” strategy has been used to retrieve WR-related peer-...
This paper aims to provide a brief overview of state-of-the-art methods of cluster analysis and to acknowledge their limitations when applied to local level in renewable energies. This emergent sector is becoming increasingly important within the field of Industrial Organization, with technological and industrial innovation being essential for the...
In recent years, the implementation of quality management systems based on ISO 9001 has clearly gone beyond the traditional industrial and service subsectors. It has started to have a growing influence on some peripheral subsectors to the standard home market, such as those of health and social services. In this article, the influence of the main g...
Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), generally, have been known as the tools that allow firms to capture, process, store and transfer information. But also, ICTs are acknowledged as a valuable tool in the knowledge management process. Many research works related to SME have defined ICTs as one of the critical factors when implementin...
The aim of this research is to analyze competitive intelligence (CI) activities in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the industrial sector in Spain. Specifically, an attempt is made to identify why these companies carry out CI activities, the types of activity they carry out, and the influence that a company's features and the environm...
Many institutions from the public and private sector are interested in the characterization of the research taking place in waste recycling (WR) science. Tech mining analysis can be applied to scientific databases with this purpose in mind, but difficulties do arise when designing the search strategy to effectively capture this multidisciplinary ar...
In a competitive market like the current one, knowledge and its management have become the best partner to generate competitive advantages in small and medium enterprises. It is important for country economic development that SMEs, as main source of wealth, manage their intangible resources to continue creating value, both business and social, and...
This article analyzes the adoption of ISO 9000 practices in manufacturing organizations from the perspective of the shop‐floor workers. For that purpose, extensive exploratory fieldwork based on both in‐depth interviews of employees, as well as on participant observation, was carried out in four Basque manufacturing organizations that have adopted...
This article analyzes the dissemination of the main global management standards, the ISO 9000, within the transition economies of the European Union (EU). In the article, the specific case of the Baltic States is analyzed in depth. The work refers to the diffusion of the ISO 9000 standard in the Baltic States in terms of its certification intensity...
Increasingly, there is a need to evaluate the research productivity of universities.
This need stems from the fact that new laws concerning research activity have
appeared in the last few years. In addition, there are other reasons that can be
considered as grounds of this necessity, above all, those related to recruitment
requirements and tenure....
This paper aims to analyze the pioneer UNE 150301 standard, as well as its adoption process and its practical results in the sector of architecture studios. First, the structure, the aim and the scope
of norm UNE 150301 have been analysed. Second, the standard's implementation has been examined, concluding that 73% of the companies that have obtain...
Tracking the evolution of research in waste recycling science (WRS) can be valuable for environmental agencies, as well as for recycling businesses. Maps of science are visual, easily readable representations of the cognitive structure of a branch of science, a particular area of research or the global spectrum of scientific production. They are ge...
The use of tech-mining tools in Science and Technology databases can provide vital information to understand and foresee innovation processes. Some of that information can be visualized by using a wide variety of maps, which gives fast, intuitive comprehension of the social and cognitive structure of the analyzed topic. Among these, the maps of sci...
This paper aims to widen the current state-of-the-art techniques of New Management Models. In recent years, the appearance of new web 2.0 tools, the exponential increase in open-source, remote collaboration software solutions, and the new social and labour paradigms, make necessary a deep review of the traditional management models. It becomes nece...
This article addresses the public acceptance issue of renewable energies and, more specifically, the case of photovoltaic (PV) solar energy. The paper analyzes the media coverage that influences public acceptance, focusing on a specific case study: the extraordinary development of the Spanish PV sector during the period 2004–2010, a case that has g...
This paper proposes how to foster open innovation through the establishment of collaborative networks. It displays how to elaborate and to visualize innovation networks existing through the analysis of the information contained in scientifical and technical databases. It comes to show two networks for innovation, made with text mining, the inventor...
The Spanish UNE 150301 standard was used as a basic reference point in paving the way for the ISO 14006 ecodesign standard. This article aims to analyze the pioneering UNE 150301 standard, as well as its adoption process and its practical results in the lift industry. Since the UNE 150301 standard is in a very early stage of dissemination, an empir...
La competitividad de una nación debe basarse en la capacidad de sus industrias para innovar y mejorar continuamente en sus productos, servicios y procesos (Porter 1990). Hoy en día se reconoce que la innovación no surge exclusivamente en la empresa, sino que encontramos su fuente en la interacción con otras organizaciones que presentan recursos com...
The analysis of new technologies has been of interest for many years . However, it is necessary to develop new methods to discover patterns that follow the new technologies; convert them could turn them into opportunities for innovation. This paper presents a methodology using techmining to understand the technological landscape and displays it on...
The concept innovation currently acquires a special impor tance as it means for many organizations a differential element of competitiveness. Nevertheless, there are diverse definitions of the concept depending on the author. In this paper a selection of the authors who have elaborated definitions of the concept is provided, using as criteria the r...
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to assess the appropriateness of applying the ISO 9001 quality standard to the residential aged‐care sector.
Design/methodology/approach
The study undertakes a prospective qualitative survey using the Delphi methodology. A panel of 14 experts in the field constitutes the panel.
Findings
ISO 9001 has certain sh...
Purpose
– The purpose of this article is to give a brief introduction to the global phenomenon of standardization of management systems and to analyze the case of Spanish care homes.
Design/methodology/approach
– Observation and interviews were conducted with top and middle managers, consultants and employees of UNE 158001 certified Spanish care h...
The purpose of this paper is to study the appropriateness of applying "manufacturing sector" quality management strategies to residential care homes sector and to analyze its influence on the quality of care.
Observation and in-depth interviews were conducted with 41 Spanish care home top and middle managers, consultants and employees.
The quality...
La Administración vasca entiende que la innovación es un elemento clave en la competitividad empresarial y por ello se ha volcado en fomentar políticas de I+D. Gracias a ello y a que tanto las empresas como las instituciones vascas han interiorizado la cultura de la innovación con bastante rapidez, el País Vasco se encuentra en primera línea en cua...
Resumen Los modelos genéricos de gestión de la calidad (ISO 9000) se han implantado indistintamente en diferentes sectores industriales. Asimismo en los últimos años también han ido implantándose en el sector sociosanitario. Concretamente en el sector sanitario es donde mayor aplicación han tenido debido a las características intrínsecas del sector...
Resumen En la toma de decisiones empresariales un elemento fundamental es la información procedente del entorno. En los últimos tiempos la cantidad de información sigue una progresión exponencial lo que obliga a gestionarla para poder localizar información que aporte valor a los tomadores de decisiones. Es necesario utilizar sistemas de vigilancia...
El modelo propuesto, materializado en el programa esdin, posibilita la planificación dinámica de la estructura de una empresa, por lo que constituye una herramienta eficaz de ayuda para el responsable de personal en la tarea de planificar los recursos humanos de una organización.
This paper proposes how to foster open innovation through the establishment of collaborative networks. It displays how to elaborate and to visualize innovation networks existing through the analysis of the information contained in scientifically and technical databases. Show two cases, the first focusing on open innovation applied at a country leve...
En la nueva economía, las empresas se ven en la necesidad de realizar grandes inversiones en inno-vación para poder competir con éxito en el merca-do, debido a que el entorno económico se ha con-vertido en complejo y turbulento. En este nuevo contexto, competitivo y abierto, las empresas que optan por la estrategia de optimización en gestión y prod...
The information contained in patent databases can be used to perceive the innovation strategy of a re-gion. The paper called PATENTALAVA is based on the use of Patentometrics, a technique in its embryonic stage, which is used to study the evolution of inter-industrial knowledge trends. This type of knowledge enables the establishment of effective p...
Keywords: Lead users research, innovación abierta. Resumen Tradicionalmente se ha supuesto que la generación y desarrollo de nuevos productos es tarea exclusiva de las empresas fabricantes. La misión de la empresa fabricante consistía en recopilar información sobre las necesidades del mercado, para posteriormente desarrollar y comercializar una sol...
Resumen El análisis de las nuevas tecnologías ha sido de interés para muchos años. However, it is necessary to develop new methods to discover patterns that follow the new technologies; convert them could turn them into opportunities for innovation. Sin embargo, es necesario desarrollar nuevos métodos para descubrir los patrones que siguen las nuev...