Proximity, Innovation, Collaboration; Developing the 4th “Extended Reality” Space

Developing an Adaptive Robotic Assistant for Close Proximity Human-Robot Collaboration in Space

In this paper, we present a framework for an adaptive and risk-aware robot motion planning and control, and discuss how such a framework could handle uncertainty in human workers’ actions and robot localization. We build on our prior investigation, where we describe how uncertainty in human actions can be modeled using the entropy rate in a Markov Decision Process. We then describe how we can i...

The 4th Globelics International Conference: Innovation Systems for Competitiveness and Shared Prosperity in Developing Countri

Innovation Diffusion and E-Collaboration: The Effects of Social Proximity on Social Information Processing

Organizational arrangements such as telework are often believed to disrupt workers’ social networks. This raises a concern regarding teleworkers’ abilities to adjust to technological changes in organizations. Based on innovation diffusion theory, this chapter considers telework and interdependence as parallel dimensions of social proximity that may be expected to affect the diffusion of innovat...

Developing a Framework to Manage a Pharmaceutical Innovation Ecosystem: Collaboration Archetypes, Open Innovation Tools, and Strategies

Based on an in-depth case study of the ecosystem of one of the world ́s largest healthcare companies including internal and external data collected since 2009, and through over 50 interviews with key stakeholders from Biotech companies, Academia, Contract Research Organizations, and Venture Capital firms this article elaborates on the challenges and opportunities of collaborative innovation in t...

Innovation through Global Collaboration

Many recent studies highlight the need to rethink the way we manage innovation. Traditional approaches, based on the assumption that the creation and pursuit of new ideas is best accomplished by a centralized and collocated R&D team, are rapidly becoming outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operat...