INTRODUCTION: Rapid urbanization and population expansion, coupled with sustained income growth and the emergence of an urban African middle class are triggering an increase in the consumption of animal protein in developing countries. The sustained increase in the consumption of animal proteins creates a host of new development opportunities to synergistically link smallholder livestock produc...

In recent years, crowdfunding has gained a lot of popularity as it helps to leverage the power crowd in development and commercialization new products. Thus, scholars are encouraged explore factors that could enhance success these projects. This article investigates impact social interaction (i.e., proactively updating potential funders seeking their feedback) on project among technology ventur...

In order to gain insight into the public's perspective on using the minimally invasive technique transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) as an enhancement tool, we analyzed and compared online comments in key popular press articles from two different periods (pre-commercialization and post-commercialization). The main conclusion drawn from this exploratory investigation is that public pe...

agility is considered the ability to respond quickly to changes and a major factor for success and survival in today's business. the purpose of this research is to offer a conceptual model using interpretive structural modeling(ism). to this end after reviewing literature and theoretical background, the indices related to achieving agility via information technology (it) have been identifi...

Amid economic pressure and inclination for independent financing, universities tend to commercialize knowledge, a growing trend emerging as an entry gate the privatization of scientific advancements development transfer technology from universities. Numerous studies have been conducted on commercialization knowledge. This article aims integrate previous develop comprehensive model out factors c...

conclusions: the results of the present research indicates that the emphasis of the his evaluation moves from technical subjects to human and organizational subjects, and from objective to subjective issues. therefore, this issue entails more familiarity with more qualitative evaluation methods. in most of the reviewed studies, the main focus has been laid on the necessity of using multi-method...

In 2004, the Korean government announced an ambitious IT strategy to establish Korea as one of the leaders in the world IT market. To implement this strategy, technology transfer from research laboratory to market should be successfully performed. This study is to identify factors influencing technology transfer and to examine the contribution of these factors on success of technology transfer ...

Vascular prostheses (grafts) are widely used for hemodialysis blood access, trauma repair, aneurism and cardiovascular reconstruction. However, smaller-diameter (≤4 mm) grafts that would be valuable many reconstructions have not been achieved to date, although hundreds of papers on small-diameter vascular published. This perspective article presents a hypothesis may open new research avenues th...