this question has always been put forward in the mind of curious people why some countries have developed termed in spite of very few natural resources and facilities while other countries have not developed in spite of having more suitable resources and facilities. various factors such as economy, culture, geography, etc. are perhaps a background to answer this question, but there is a more im...

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. We develop a model of innovation which incorpor...

eENVplus (www.eenvplus.eu) is a ICT-PSP -Pilot A project, started on January 2013. The eENVplus key objective leads to support the implementation of INSPIRE and SEIS, engaging environmental data (many INSPIRE Annex I-II-III Data Themes) managed by the involved national/regional environment agencies and other public and private environmental stakeholders through the integration and harmonisation...

The Web Services Modelling Framework (WSMF) and the Web Services Modelling Ontology (WSMO) provide a unique, highly innovative perspective onto the Semantic Web and Web Service technologies. This paper presents the WSMO Studio – a prototype that supports and elaborates this innovative perspective, making the technology easy to use and transparent for the end user. Our previous work on the SWWS ...

The ESTIA project aims to provide the means for mass adoption of Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-Commerce in the tourism sector. Its main objective is to exploit emerging infrastructures and access devices, and develop advanced applications in order to provide innovative services to all parties involved in the Tourism sector with emphasis on tourists and SME providers. ESTIA introduces a new innov...

Requirements engineering is highly challenging particularly when designing innovative software products. This is so because there are no corresponding products, ultimate needs of actors are difficult to capture, the products may have unforeseeable impacts on the actors’ behavior, and it is hard to find out how value-added and competitive the product actually is. In this paper, we propose a nove...

TENCompetence is an integrated project which will support individuals, groups and organisations in Europe in lifelong competence development by establishing the most appropriate technical and organizational infrastructure, using open-source, standards-based, sustainable and innovative technology. To achieve this, the project will conduct RTD activities to further develop and integrate models an...

This paper reports on the author’s low cost, innovative approach to an introductory Information Systems [IS] course, promoting twenty-first-century skills. By implementing several best instructional practices and through innovative use of technology to create community, the faculty member created a learning environment that students received with enthusiasm, and which helped them achieve at a h...

Innovative development methodologies, standards and tools for the structured design of complex automation systems are very important to configure interoperable, portable and scalable automation systems for next generation manufacturing systems. In the present work a development methodology is applied with particular reference to the automation system functional specification, which is based on ...

Business enterprises are playing a significant role in promoting China’s national capacity of innovation. However, information about China’s innovative activities is still very limited, especially at the micro level. This paper aims to investigate both the internal and external determinants that affect firms’ innovative behaviour by using a rich set of firm-level data and municipal-level data. ...