Venture capital firms have unique capabilities in terms of dealing with high uncertainty, high degrees of information asymmetry, and providing access to a strategic network. This study examines the association between the presence of venture capital and the growth of startups. It explores whether venture capital leads to growth or, alternatively growth signals the need for venture capital. It a...

Innovation challenges are increasingly adopted for idea generation in interand intrafirm innovation to elicit novel solutions from employees to strategic and businessrelated problems of the firm. However, the current idea-oriented approach is limited in leveraging the full capacity of open innovation, as it focuses more on identifying the best ideas through competition rather than generating ne...

Demographic change promotes new concepts for the support of ageing employees during work with computer monitors. An approach to age-differentiated adaptation of the human-computer interface should allow for the specific capabilities and needs of elderly users during primarily cognitive activities. To determine the factors of consideration during the implementation of the adaptation model, exper...

As the driving forces of technological change continue to increase exponentially as predicted by Moores’ law, we have been witnessing in the last years major breakthroughs in the fields of wireless and mobile communications as well as unprecedented proliferation of multimedia enabled devices and networks. These devices can consume remote multimedia contents by connecting wirelessly through diff...

The Software Defined Radio (SDR) is a class of reprogrammable and reconfigurable radios which can be switched from one air-interface to another. It is generally employed in software, which can be easily realized on base station side. On terminal side, the configurability of the radio has to be maintained in a hybrid architecture consist of both software as well as hardware, due to computational...

The first neutron spectrometer of ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) was installed in November 2008. It is a compact neutron spectrometer (CNS) based on a BC501A liquid scintillating detector, which can simultaneously measure 2.45-MeV and 14-MeV neutrons emitted from deuterium (D) plasmas and γ radiation. The scintillating detector is coupled to a digital pulse shape discrimination data acquisition (DPSD) sys...

With the advent of the new wireless technologies allowing for higher data rates, the provision of high quality multimedia services over the upcoming wireless and mobile networks is gaining momentum. These future mobile networks are witnessed to consist of a variety of heterogeneous wireless access technologies connected to a high-speed IP datagram-based core network. The heterogeneity of these ...

Since broadband network connections are becoming ubiquitous, people expect access to multimedia content anywhere anytime. This new demand results in a need to create and develop new, powerful devices for multimedia consumption. The new devices, each having their set of network and terminal capabilities, allow transparent access to multimedia and therefore open the path to transparent mobility o...

Weblogs have been proposed as a highly effective means for organizations to communicate with customers, suppliers, and employees. This paper provides a conceptual model of the relationships among weblog use, intellectual capital--the cumulative knowledge resources possessed by organizations-and both radical and incremental innovative capabilities. We argue that in enabling the transfer of knowl...

This paper presents an overview of the hardand software architecture of a mobile visitor information system for the Konrad Zuse building of the School of Computer Science and Automation at the Ilmenau University of Technology. Two mobile robots serve as mobile information terminals with capabilities for generating way descriptions and guiding the visitor to the points of interest (labs, meeting...