Many criteria have been presented so far for innovation measurement. Presenting the relation between input and output of innovation, completing other criteria and achieving more comprehensive criteria has also been raised. What is of vital importance is the right utilization of these criteria towards measuring innovation. This paper seeks to present a model to measure innovation that, in additi...

In recent 10 years, the city of Wuhan has built a big automotive industry cluster in China. The Wuhan automotive cluster is developing quickly, but scarcity of talent has become the bottleneck for its development. Recruiting talented worker is significant concern and the influence factors of talent flow have been explored. The questionnaire about influence factor of talent flow are designed and...

Many innovations in the automotive industry are based on electronics and software, which has led to a steady increase of electronic control units (ECU) in cars. This brought up serious scalability and complexity issues in terms of cost, installation space, and energy consumption. In order to tackle these problems, there is a strong interest to consolidate ECUs using virtualization technologies....

The design of in-vehicle embedded systems follows a complex multi-partner development process. Carmakers specify the whole system and have to integrate several parts of the system provided by different suppliers. Specification as well as integration are concerned with properties requirements (safety, performance, cost, etc.) and validation issues. On another hand, the economical aspects lead su...

U ntil recently, the automotive industry has been primarily dominated by a few giant original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). However, car manufacturers are now being challenged by the software and service industries. Apple and Google have released car platforms that leverage mobile service platforms customized for navigation, infotainment, and communication, and that provide intelligent, perso...

This paper seeks to examine the drivers of R&D collaboration between firms and universities and research institutes using a sample of automotive, biotechnology and electronics firms from Malaysia. The Probit regression results indicate that R&D intensity, openness to R&D as measured by partner diversity, access to wider range of channels of information, and size matter for university-industry c...

The automotive industry must meet the requirements for increased safety (product liability), stricter regulations regarding environmental protection, as well as the demands of car drivers for more luxury features. Costly recall actions, ever increasing demands on the quality management and the changing legal framework with a simultaneously harsher competition force the industry towards a more e...

Mass production of industrial workpieces requires continuous manufacturing control to ensure constant quality. That is why assembly inspection is used to detect errors at an early stage. Many conventional inspection methods are still in use especially in the automotive and supplier industry. Traditional inspection with gauges is rather subjective and time-consuming. Moreover, such inspection on...

This paper is focused on the investigation of productivity (total productivity and partial productivity). The value productivity is an indicator of level and changes in technical economic efficiency of production factors. It represents an important factor in achieving corporate objectives. This text works with the contemporary concept of value productivity that means that indicators of the prod...