Saheed Adebayo Gbadegeshin

• Doctor of Science (D.Sc.)
• Senior Lecturer at Ravensbourne University London

As technologies continue to advance, the role of robots cannot be underestimated. One of the essential robots is a social robot that works, interacts, communicates, and supports people. Hence, this study explores its evolution. This study used bibliometric research to analyze 1226 published articles from the Web of Science database between June 200...

The recent surge in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within digital marketing warrants investigation to better understand its effects on business operations. Consequently, this paper explores the impacts of AI on digital marketing, given their interconnection. It aims to provide both theoretical and empirical evidence regarding these...

Purpose– This study aims to investigate scholarly works on higher education management from emerging economies. It investigates how higher education management has evolved in emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach– This study is quantitative, and the authors retrieved the metadata from the Web of Science, an extensive pool of interdiscipli...

In 2017, different organisations formed a consortium for a European Union Com-mission project named ‘Indoor hygiene SME’s Exports to the Middle East Con -struction Markets’ (IHMEC). The commission funded the consortium through theInterreg Central Baltic program and the European Regional Development Fund.The consortium consisted of a lead partner, s...

This research report has been written as part of the Kajaani University of Applied Sciences (KAMK) AI Boost project (ELY funding for the development of companies’ operative environment in the European Regional Development Fund). AI Boost is included as one of the CEMIS (Centre of Measurement and Information Systems, www.cemis.fi) projects between 2...

Personality traits play a significant role in many organisational parameters, such as job satisfaction, performance, employability, and leadership for employers. One of the major social networks, the unemployed derives satisfaction from is Facebook. The focus of this article is to introduce association rule mining and demonstrate how it may be appl...

In recent decades, more and more startups are mushrooming, with modernization and creativity brought about by digitalization. They are technology-based startups. They provide outsize contributions to employment, innovation exports, productivity growth and spurs to innovation. However, only 10% of new ventures are able to survive the first three to...

The apex bank of Nigerian banks, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), recently approved the Payment Service Bank (PSB) licenses for MTN and Airtel, the two major telecommunications companies in Nigeria, to achieve the goal of financial inclusion and the enhancement of the payment system with secure technology-driven platforms. This development has mi...

The Lagos State Government of Nigeria signed a partnership agreement with CIG Motors Company Limited to revamp road transportation in the state. The agreement heralded a new e-hailing taxi scheme known as 'Lagos Ride,' which kicks off with a pilot fleet of 1,000 cars While this initiative is commendable, it is imperative to reflect on this project...

The Valley of Death (VoD) reflects a series of challenges facing technology-based companies during their early development stages. Extant literature highlights the need for startups to equip themselves with the tools and resources to manage this turbulent transition. However, the existing frameworks propounded by fellow scholars and practitioners r...

With continuous technological advancements and a surge of digitalization, the business ecosystem has changed. One of the effects of this trend is an increase in the generation of data. Prior studies have shown that the use of data contributes to the growth of large corporations. These corporations, most often, have resources to try new innovations...

Presently, the term "Artificial Intelligence (AI)" is widely used and sometimes loosely in media. Surprisingly, there is not yet any universally accepted definition of AI. To help fill in the gap, this article examines literature and interviews with experts on the meaning of AI. Researchers reviewed 60 papers and interviewed 20 experts in Finland....

The challenges of disruptive innovations have gained significant attention from both academics and practitioners, commercialization being one of the most critical phases. At the same time, however, it is the less studied area of disruptive innovation. Therefore, this article examined scholarly papers on the commercialization of disruptive innovatio...

The data contains summaries of selected articles on Valley of Death (VoD). The summarized articles consist of scholarly papers, conference proceedings, and white papers. They were collected from ABI (Proquest), EBSCOHost, Scopus, ScienceDirect and Google scholar databases. They represent articles published between 2000 and 2020. Over 3000 articles...

The data contains summaries of selected articles on Valley of Death (VoD). The summarized articles consist of scholarly papers, conference proceedings, and white papers. They were collected from ABI (Proquest), EBSCOHost, Scopus, ScienceDirect and Google scholar databases. They represent articles published between 2000 and 2020. Over 3000 articles...

The increased use of social media has resulted in active participation of women on social media platforms, specifically Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. However, very little research has been carried out, specifically, on how women cope with the challenges of unemployment using social media networks. Thus, many women resort to different means as a...

The Valley of Death (VoD) denotes a perilous or transitional period before a new business reaches a breakeven point. It also describes a situation where commercialization projects fail to achieve their goals. VoD has been extensively covered by scholars with extant literature delineating VoD across different industries, including medical, military...

Social media has become an important platform where users share, comment, discuss, communicate, interact, and play games. Aside from using social media for personal, social, and business purposes, the use of social media has gained attention, particularly for collaborative learning in the educational sector. This paper examines the role of social m...

Social media has become an important platform where users share, comment, discuss, communicate, interact, and play games. Aside from using social media for personal, social, and business purposes, the use of social media has gained attention, particularly for collaborative 6 IJEDICT learning in the educational sector. This paper examines the role o...

One of the most critical challenges that large companies, small enterprises and research institutes face, when commercializing their innovations, is the transfer process at the moment of scaling up. These organizations often transfer their innovation to either existing business units or create a new business entirely. The process of transferring in...

Commercialization of high technologies refers to a process that transforms radical and disruptive innovations into consumable products, services and solution packages. This process generates returns on research and development investments, employs highly educated people, empowers semi-skilled persons and makes business enterprises prosperous and su...

The sociocultural conception of man sees a person as the product of his or her environment. Whereas the biological conception of man stresses genetic heritance and the cognitive conception of man prioritises internal cognitive functions and information processing, the sociocultural conception of man focusses on the environmental and cultural factor...

This article examines how digitalization influences the commercialization of high technologies in the life sciences industry. It is based on a cross-case study focused on pharmaceutical, medical device, and e-health companies in Finland. Both company representatives and regional stakeholders were interviewed. The findings suggest that “digitalizati...

As Fourth revolution evolves, digitalization enables development and diffusion of new high technologies. Hence, it is essential to have knowledge on commercialization competence, which assists entrepreneurs to transform their inventions/innovations into consumable products/services. Therefore, this study investigates commercialization skills and th...

Commercializing high technologies is expensive, tedious, and resource intensive. Meanwhile, there is a need for quick diffusion of innovations due to economic pressures for companies and research institutes. Therefore, this article proposes a new framework: lean commercialization. The framework represents a transformation of new technology and know...

Information and communication technology (ICT) has fundamentally transformed business transactions. While its uses have become ubiquitous in the advanced economies, emerging and developing economies are still struggling with the mode and manner of the deployment of ICT for business. Thus, this study seeks to investigate how small‐ and medium‐sized...

It is essential to have mutual understanding of theories, because their theoretical and contemporary uses change over time. Thus, this paper examines theoretical and contemporary uses of Bricolage theory in entrepreneurship studies. In doing so, it reviews scholarly articles on the theory through a documentary analysis method. Its findings showed t...

This article examines commercialization process of a high technology, which is characterized by a high level of research and development activities, resources-intensive and added values. The article employed a case study approach, by observing a Finnish University Spin-off between 2013 and 2016 and making use of documentary method. In contrary to m...

Commercialization method is a means to make inventions available at the market for final consumption. It is described as an important tool for keeping business enterprises sustainable and improving national economic growth. Thus, there are several scholarly publications on it, either presenting or testing different methods for commercialization. Ho...

It is widely known that entrepreneurship plays a crucial role within the economy. As the African economy needs rapid development and growth, this paper investigates the present attitude of African youth towards new business creation and entrepreneurship. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods were used, and 204 people participated in th...

Presently, there is a need for development of new companies and growth of existing enterprises. Likewise, there is an academic interest in Lean start-up concept. Hence, this paper investigates how potential entrepreneurs, small business owners and innovators can test and commercialise their business ideas by applying the Lean start-up technique. Th...

This article examines the challenges in commercializing high technologies successfully and sustainably using quantum key distribution (QKD) technology as a case study. Quantum communication is increasingly relevant to cybersecurity and nanotechnology, which will replace current technologies and change the way we live. To understand how such high te...

This article examines the challenges in commercializing high technologies successfully and sustainably using quantum key distribution (QKD) technology as a case study. Quantum communication is increasingly relevant to cybersecurity and nanotechnology, which will replace current technologies and change the way we live. To understand how such high te...

Despite the fact that there are several scholarly articles and textbooks on commercialization of technology; it seems that few or none of them discuss sustainability of new products or new companies. Based on our observation on the different commercialization projects, it was realized that there were certain factors to be considered during the comm...

Network has drawn attention from different fields and its contributions on the businesses have been discussed; however, Hite and Hesterly (2001) propose that it is significant for companies to change from closed networks to dispersed networks as the firm grows. Similarly, scholars argue that firm network, development and resources are “co-evolved”....

Currently, there are numerous scholarly articles on the succession but it is surprising that no or few papers have discussed the awareness of succession and its impacts. Therefore, this study focused on the awareness of the family business owners, the attitude of the owners towards intra-succession as means of business continuity, and how their awa...

Currently, there are several papers on the New Technology Based Firms (NTBFs) yet the case studies of measurement technology appear to not be available. This work aims to present the entrepreneurial processes of Finnish measurement technology firms. Eight interviews were conducted with the key players of the industry. Successfully, the outcomes of...