Open Innovation and Knowledge Sharing - Towards a sustainable offshore aquaculture

This thesis explores knowledge sharing, open innovation, and skilled relatedness between two industries, the emerging offshore aquaculture industry, and the oil and gas industry. This research placed a significant emphasis on comparing these two industries using the theories presented in chapter two. To gather data for this thesis, a qualitative research method was utilized, which includes semi-structured interviews, a questionnaire, and a literature study. The desire for sustainable development is a powerful motivator for consumer and company behavior, not to mention government mandates. According to the UN, the world´s food output must quadruple by 2050 to feed a rising population. The sea must provide a significant portion of the increasing food output. Aquaculture has been singled out as essential to enhancing the world´s food output. Offshore aquaculture is an innovative method of fish production. Although this method has been researched for a while, we have never been as close to a functioning aquaculture operation at sea as we are now. Compared to the initial fish farming on land or near the shore, offshore aquaculture has presented additional difficulties. The physical environment will be different for offshore aquaculture compared to inshore aquaculture. Despite the distinct physical and climatic circumstances, many of the biological obstacles of offshore aquaculture will still be similar to those of traditional coastal fish farming, including today’s well-known problems like lice, illness, and fish welfare. Offshore aquaculture developers were obliged to change their approach due to these challenges. Knowledge sharing, skilled relatedness, open innovation and spillovers from the oil and gas industry might all be advantageous for the growing offshore aquaculture industry

Open Innovation and Knowledge Sharing - Towards a sustainable offshore aquaculture

This thesis explores knowledge sharing, open innovation, and skilled relatedness between two industries, the emerging offshore aquaculture industry, and the oil and gas industry. This research placed a significant emphasis on comparing these two industries using the theories presented in chapter two. To gather data for this thesis, a qualitative research method was utilized, which includes semi-structured interviews, a questionnaire, and a literature study. The desire for sustainable development is a powerful motivator for consumer and company behavior, not to mention government mandates. According to the UN, the world ́s food output must quadruple by 2050 to feed a rising population. The sea must provide a significant portion of the increasing food output. Aquaculture has been singled out as essential to enhancing the world ́s food output. Offshore aquaculture is an innovative method of fish production. Although this method has been researched for a while, we have never been as close to a functioning aquaculture operation at sea as we are now. Compared to the initial fish farming on land or near the shore, offshore aquaculture has presented additional difficulties. The physical environment will be different for offshore aquaculture compared to inshore aquaculture. Despite the distinct physical and climatic circumstances, many of the biological obstacles of offshore aquaculture will still be similar to those of traditional coastal fish farming, including today’s well-known problems like lice, illness, and fish welfare. Offshore aquaculture developers were obliged to change their approach due to these challenges. Knowledge sharing, skilled relatedness, open innovation and spillovers from the oil and gas industry might all be advantageous for the growing offshore aquaculture industry

RISKS IDENTIFICATION AND MITIGATION IN UAV APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

With the recent advances in aircraft technologies, software, sensors, and communications, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can offer a wide range of applications. UAVs can play important roles in applications, such as search and rescue, situation awareness in natural disasters, environmental monitoring, and perimeter surveillance. Developing UAV applications involves integrating hardware, software, sensors, and communication components with the UAV’s base system. UAV applications development projects are complex because of the various development stages and the integration complexity of high component. This research addresses the business and technical challenges encountered by UAV applications development and Project Management (PM). It identifies the risks associated with UAV applications development and compares various risk mitigation and management techniques that can be used. The study also investigates the role of Knowledge Management (KM) in reducing and managing risks. Furthermore, this study proposes a KM framework that reduces risks in UAV applications development projects. In addition, the proposed framework relies on KM and text mining techniques to enhance the efficiency of executing these projects

Business process management and digital innovations : a systematic literature review

Emerging technologies have capabilities to reshape business process management (BPM) from its traditional version to a more explorative variant. However, to exploit the full benefits of new IT, it is essential to reveal BPM’s research potential and to detect recent trends in practice. Therefore, this work presents a systematic literature review (SLR) with 231 recent academic articles (from 2014 until May 2019) that integrate BPM with digital innovations (DI). We position those articles against seven future BPM-DI trends that were inductively derived from an expert panel. By complementing the expected trends in practice with a state-of-the-art literature review, we are able to derive covered and uncovered themes in order to help bridge a rigor-relevance gap. The major technological impacts within the BPM field seem to focus on value creation, customer engagement and managing human-centric and knowledge-intensive business processes. Finally, our findings are categorized into specific calls for research and for action to let scholars and organizations better prepare for future digital needs

A model for assessment of human assistive robot capability

The purpose of this research is to develop a generalised model for levels of autonomy and sophistication for autonomous systems. It begins with an introduction to the research, its aims and objectives before a detailed review of related literature is presented as it pertains to the subject matter and the methodology used in the research. The research tasks are carried out using appropriate methods including literature reviews, case studies and semi-structured interviews. Through identifying the gaps in the current work on human assistive robots, a generalised model for assessing levels of autonomy and sophistication for human assistive robots (ALFHAR) is created through logical modelling, semi-structured interview methods and case studies. A web-based tool for the ALFHAR model is also created to support the model application. The ALFHAR model evaluates levels of autonomy and sophistication with regard to the decision making, interaction, and mechanical ability aspects of human assistive robots. The verification of the model is achieved by analysing evaluation results from the web-based tool and ALFHAR model. The model is validated using a set of tests with stakeholders participation through the conduction of a case study using the web-based tool. The main finding from this research is that the ALFHAR model can be considered as a model to be used in the evaluation of levels of autonomy and sophistication for human assistive robots. It can also prove helpful as part of through life management support for autonomous systems. The thesis concludes with a critical review of the research and some recommendations for further research

Asset Reuse of Images From a Repository

According to Markus\u27s theory of reuse, when digital repositories are deployed to collect and distribute organizational assets, they supposedly help ensure accountability, extend information exchange, and improve productivity. Such repositories require a large investment due to the continuing costs of hardware, software, user licenses, training, and technical support. The problem addressed in this study was the lack of evidence in the literature on whether users in fact reused enough digital assets in repositories to justify the investment. The objective of the study was to investigate the organizational value of repositories to better inform architectural, construction, software and other industries whether repositories are worth the investment. This study was designed to examine asset reuse of medical images at a health information publisher. The research question focused on the amount of asset reuse over time, which was determined from existing repository transaction logs generated over an 8-year period by all users. A longitudinal census data analysis of archival research was performed on the entire dataset of 85,250 transaction logs. The results showed that 42 users downloaded those assets, including 11,059 images, indicating that the repository was used by sufficient users at this publisher of about 80 employees. From those images, 1,443 medical images were reused for new product development, showing a minimal asset reuse rate of 13%. Assistants (42%), writers (20%), and librarians (16%) were the primary users of this repository. Collectively, these results demonstrated the value of repositories in improving organizational productivity---through reuse of existing digital assets such as medical images to avoid unnecessary duplication costs---for social change and economic transformation

Industry 4.0 and circular economy in an era of global value chains: What have we learned and what is still to be explored?

This article reviews the industry 4.0 (I4.0) and circular economy (CE) literature from a global value chain (GVC) perspective. More specifically, it (1) summarizes the empirical findings on the applications of I4.0 and CE practices; (2) explores the previous literature and identifies several future research directions to advance the existing literature. In this respect, the interface between I4.0 and CE research is a relatively young field of inquiry that has been little concerned with developments in GVCs. We systematically review 112 peer-reviewed papers in the field of I4.0 and CE to distill key future research opportunities and trends in the GVC field. We develop three specific conclusions from our literature review. First, GVCs can vary widely within the various forms of I4.0 technologies with the various CE practices. Second, GVC research is underdeveloped with regard to I4.0 and CE. Third, our findings are congruent with previously published studies, which recognize the importance of GVC research that has generated a rich body of knowledge, mainly from a governance perspective in operations management, supply chain management, and international business. Likewise, our study offers promising avenues for future research studies at the intersection of I4.0, CE, and GVCs. Our systematic literature review suggests that there are many opportunities to advance the I4.0 and CE debates in the burgeoning field of GVC

ICS Materials. Towards a re-Interpretation of material qualities through interactive, connected, and smart materials.

The domain of materials for design is changing under the influence of an increased technological advancement, miniaturization and democratization. Materials are becoming connected, augmented, computational, interactive, active, responsive, and dynamic. These are ICS Materials, an acronym that stands for Interactive, Connected and Smart. While labs around the world are experimenting with these new materials, there is the need to reflect on their potentials and impact on design. This paper is a first step in this direction: to interpret and describe the qualities of ICS materials, considering their experiential pattern, their expressive sensorial dimension, and their aesthetic of interaction. Through case studies, we analyse and classify these emerging ICS Materials and identified common characteristics, and challenges, e.g. the ability to change over time or their programmability by the designers and users. On that basis, we argue there is the need to reframe and redesign existing models to describe ICS materials, making their qualities emerge