Synergizing Roadway Infrastructure Investment with Digital Infrastructure for Infrastructure-Based Connected Vehicle Applications: Review of Current Status and Future Directions

The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.The safety, mobility, environmental and economic benefits of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are potentially dramatic. However, realization of these benefits largely hinges on the timely upgrading of the existing transportation system. CAVs must be enabled to send and receive data to and from other vehicles and drivers (V2V communication) and to and from infrastructure (V2I communication). Further, infrastructure and the transportation agencies that manage it must be able to collect, process, distribute and archive these data quickly, reliably, and securely. This paper focuses on current digital roadway infrastructure initiatives and highlights the importance of including digital infrastructure investment alongside more traditional infrastructure investment to keep up with the auto industry's push towards this real time communication and data processing capability. Agencies responsible for transportation infrastructure construction and management must collaborate, establishing national and international platforms to guide the planning, deployment and management of digital infrastructure in their jurisdictions. This will help create standardized interoperable national and international systems so that CAV technology is not deployed in a haphazard and uncoordinated manner

Sustainable consumption: towards action and impact. : International scientific conference November 6th-8th 2011, Hamburg - European Green Capital 2011, Germany: abstract volume

This volume contains the abstracts of all oral and poster presentations of the international scientific conference „Sustainable Consumption – Towards Action and Impact“ held in Hamburg (Germany) on November 6th-8th 2011. This unique conference aims to promote a comprehensive academic discourse on issues concerning sustainable consumption and brings together scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines. In modern societies, private consumption is a multifaceted and ambivalent phenomenon: it is a ubiquitous social practice and an economic driving force, yet at the same time, its consequences are in conflict with important social and environmental sustainability goals. Finding paths towards “sustainable consumption” has therefore become a major political issue. In order to properly understand the challenge of “sustainable consumption”, identify unsustainable patterns of consumption and bring forward the necessary innovations, a collaborative effort of researchers from different disciplines is needed

The entrepreneurial university in Ireland - from rhetoric to reality. A phenomenological study of the evolution of the entrepreneurial capabilities of universities

The role of the university has evolved from teaching and research to include the ‘third mission’ of knowledge transfer and beyond to the creation of ‘entrepreneurship capital’ which can have a positive socioeconomic impact on national economies (Audretsch & Keilbach, 2005). The modern ‘entrepreneurial university’ is now expected to fulfil the three roles of teaching, research and entrepreneurship simultaneously. This research brings to bear a qualitative, phenomenological research methodology using semi structured interviews to understanding both the lived experience and, indeed, the attitudes of senior university leadership across the island of Ireland to the entrepreneurial university paradigm. Executive team members, often at the level of President, in third level institutions were interviewed. The aims of this research are twofold. Firstly, the research looks to explore how these leaders interpret the concept of entrepreneurship within the entrepreneurial university paradigm: how or, indeed, whether it is woven into their institutional strategy and with what effect. Secondly, strategic management theory, specifically dynamic capabilities theory (Teece et al., 1997), has been chosen as a theoretical lens to consider mission and strategy within the entrepreneurial university. The findings of this research have yielded rich and original insights which have contributed to the development of a new theoretical model of the Entrepreneurial University in Ireland. This contribution is significant, not just in advancing theory, but equally, in terms of guiding senior management of universities as they plan their next steps in their journey to deliver the third mission

The entrepreneurial university in Ireland - from rhetoric to reality. A phenomenological study of the evolution of the entrepreneurial capabilities of universities

The role of the university has evolved from teaching and research to include the ‘third mission’ of knowledge transfer and beyond to the creation of ‘entrepreneurship capital’ which can have a positive socioeconomic impact on national economies (Audretsch & Keilbach, 2005). The modern ‘entrepreneurial university’ is now expected to fulfil the three roles of teaching, research and entrepreneurship simultaneously. This research brings to bear a qualitative, phenomenological research methodology using semi structured interviews to understanding both the lived experience and, indeed, the attitudes of senior university leadership across the island of Ireland to the entrepreneurial university paradigm. Executive team members, often at the level of President, in third level institutions were interviewed. The aims of this research are twofold. Firstly, the research looks to explore how these leaders interpret the concept of entrepreneurship within the entrepreneurial university paradigm: how or, indeed, whether it is woven into their institutional strategy and with what effect. Secondly, strategic management theory, specifically dynamic capabilities theory (Teece et al., 1997), has been chosen as a theoretical lens to consider mission and strategy within the entrepreneurial university. The findings of this research have yielded rich and original insights which have contributed to the development of a new theoretical model of the Entrepreneurial University in Ireland. This contribution is significant, not just in advancing theory, but equally, in terms of guiding senior management of universities as they plan their next steps in their journey to deliver the third mission

Measuring social capital and innovation in poor agricultural communities: The case of Cháparra, Peru

In the last decades substantive advance has been made in the measurement and understanding of frontier innovation in highly industrialized settings. However, little research focused on the process of learning and the introduction of novelties in smallholder farming of poor agricultural communities. Considering that 1.5 billion people in developing countries live in such smallholder households this is an essential shortcoming. In addressing three crucial questions about the measurement and promotion of endogenous local development this paper contributes to close this research gap. The three questions are: a) how can we measure social capital and innovation in poor agricultural communities, b) what is the impact of external agents on local structures and c) what are the relations between the social capital and the innovative performance of the farmer. In a first step a comprehensive questionnaire with 89 questions on diverse dimensions of social capital and innovation has been elaborated and applied to the agricultural valley of Cháparra in the South of Peru. The results allow for an indepth analysis of the capabilities, network position and innovative behavior of the farmers. In a second step, we apply social network analysis techniques to analyze the role and position of the relevant actors in the local as well as in the external technical information networks with a special focus on the influence of an external NGO. The analysis reveals a deep structural impact of the NGO and significant correlations between the network position of the farmers and their innovative performance. Three crucial issues for research on smallholder innovation are identified. First, diverse dimensions of social capital and innovation have to be differentiated when studying endogenous development. Second, it has to be assessed to which degree the modification of the existing social structures by external agents can be harmful or beneficial. Third, social network analysis can help us to gain a better understanding of the complex relations between social capital and innovation and how these can contribute to foster sustainable development projects. --social capital,innovation,smallholders,Cháparra,Peru,network analysis

Economic evaluation outcomes: major events development fund

This report outlines the results of an approach modelled on a cost-benefit analysis methodology undertaken by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment in 2012.This report examines 18 of the 19 events that received an investment from the Major Events Development Fund (MEDF) between February 2010 and April 2012, for which either a post event report and/or an economic impact assessment, was submitted to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).Investment received by each event ranged from $50,000 (three events) to$2 million (one event).The evaluation does not include the Rugby World Cup 2011, which as a “mega” event is beyond the scope and definition of “major” events that are the subject of this report. A Rugby World Cup 2011 Host Nation’s Report was published in December 2012, and informs economic and other social, cultural and legacy benefits for this pinnacle event.Some of the events evaluated include the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts 2010, World Rowing Championships 2010, Winter Games 2011, and the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 Auckland stop over. To protect the commercial nature of each event, individual events have not been identified in the report

A decision support methodology to enhance the competitiveness of the Turkish automotive industry

This is the post-print (final draft post-refereeing) version of the article. Copyright @ 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Three levels of competitiveness affect the success of business enterprises in a globally competitive environment: the competitiveness of the company, the competitiveness of the industry in which the company operates and the competitiveness of the country where the business is located. This study analyses the competitiveness of the automotive industry in association with the national competitiveness perspective using a methodology based on Bayesian Causal Networks. First, we structure the competitiveness problem of the automotive industry through a synthesis of expert knowledge in the light of the World Economic Forum’s competitiveness indicators. Second, we model the relationships among the variables identified in the problem structuring stage and analyse these relationships using a Bayesian Causal Network. Third, we develop policy suggestions under various scenarios to enhance the national competitive advantages of the automotive industry. We present an analysis of the Turkish automotive industry as a case study. It is possible to generalise the policy suggestions developed for the case of Turkish automotive industry to the automotive industries in other developing countries where country and industry competitiveness levels are similar to those of Turkey

Report No. 28: Review of Methodologies Applied for the Assessment of Employment and Social Impacts

Joint report with ECORYS Netherlands for the DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of the European Commission, Bonn 2010 (217 pages)