Most approaches in innovation are extrapolating past experiences into the future or they use "wild" out-of-the-box-thinking methods for generating new knowledge or perspectives. However, how can we create something radically new and at the same time something that has been “waited for”, although nobody has explicitly known or seen it; i.e., something that—despite its perhaps radical newness—app...

Integrating customer contributions into new product development provides an effective approach for successful product innovation, but little academic research explicitly addresses appropriate customer integration strategies. To explore such strategies, this study investigates the impact of different customer contribution types and timing. An analysis of four case studies with industrial goods d...

This year the CLASSY team participated in the update summary task and made four submissions to summarization evaluation (AESOP). Our AESOP submissions used combinations of ROUGE scores along with an update (or newness) score. We also use these new metrics, which we call Nouveau ROUGE, to help train our system and evaluate new ideas on computing update summaries. CLASSY (Clustering, Linguistics,...

Entrepreneurs face a wide variety of uncertainties in managing new or small businesses. Uncertainty can potentially magnify the liability of newness faced by younger businesses, as well as the challenges that smaller businesses face in having adequate resources to maintain performance. Here we present a model of environmental uncertainty tied to industry, geographic and macro-level effects. We ...

This paper presents a User-Oriented MultiDocument Update Summarization system based on a maximization-minimization approach. Our system relies on two main concepts. The first one is the cross summaries sentence redundancy removal which tempt to limit the redundancy of information between the update summary and the previous ones. The second concept is the newness of information detection in a cl...

Introduction R eflection on ethical issues in long-term care results in large part from the relative newness and size of an extended “third age,” that is, that time in life that is generally characterized neither by reproduction nor production. This third age has become more common only at the end of the twentieth century with so many people living longer as the result of lifestyle changes and ...

As a new discipline, primarily driven by technology, telemedicine is still searching for a coherent research framework. The number of papers submitted for this year’s minitrack has significantly increased from last year. However, the quality of submitted work has yet to be improved. Data gathered for submitted papers oftentimes remain unclear and inconclusive. Technology surveyed in some papers...