East Midlands healthcare and bioscience sector strategy

The healthcare and bioscience sector is one of four priority sectors identified in the regional economic strategy, A Flourishing Region. This document sets out a strategy for maximising the contribution of the healthcare and biosciences sector to the economic development of the East Midlands

Responsible Innovation & Entrepreneurship – The Role of Stakeholders & Uncertainty in Disruptive Technology Development

This dissertation is located at the intersection of stakeholder theory, entrepreneurship and innovation research and demonstrates that the concept of Responsible Innovation (RI), with its premise of early stakeholder engagement in innovation processes, is of immense relevance to entrepreneurial organizations, especially with regard to uncertainties in disruptive technology development. Part 1 of this dissertation pioneers the connection of RI to entrepreneurship research. The differing interpretations of RI and three core aspects are explored: design innovation, normative ends and collaborative reflection. After laying out this RI scheme, the notion of entrepreneurship is examined in light of this construct. Furthermore, operationalization strategies of RI in entrepreneurial organizations are outlined on a conceptual level and in practice, with a focus on stakeholder engagement as the key element. Moreover, the vital role played by stakeholders in entrepreneurial organizations and their influence on uncertainties of innovation processes are indicated. In Part 2 of this dissertation, this role of stakeholders is scrutinized more closely. It identifies the reduction of uncertainties as a core driver of stakeholder engagement activities. A mixed-methods approach was utilized. In the qualitative study, nine in-depth interviews were conducted and analyzed. A structure equation model approach was adopted for the quantitative study; 119 questionnaires were completed by managers in the field of advanced biotechnology. Part 2 evidences the vital role of stakeholder engagement in terms of reducing technological, commercial, social and organizational uncertainty during innovation processes in disruptive technology development

Perceived Individual Risk of Co-innovation in Collaborative Innovation Networks

Cultivating collective innovation while preserving the interest of the individual contributors is one of the main challenges collaborative innovation networks face. This challenge is riddled with difficulties in managing individuals’ co-innovation risks. The first step toward understanding co-innovation risks is the development of a valid and reliable model to measure the actors’ perception of risk. This paper conceptualizes co-innovation risk from actor’s perspective. It also proposes and tests a nomological network that illustrates the effect of risk on co-innovation behavior

L’implantation de la robotique collaborative et la gestion des ressources humaines dans le secteur manufacturier : soutenir le changement et l’adoption

Ce mémoire de maîtrise explore l’implantation de la robotique collaborative en entreprise sous l’angle des pratiques de gestion et des facteurs humains. La visée initiale de ce projet de recherche visait préalablement à circonscrire l’apport que peut prendre la gestion des ressources humaines (GRH) lors de ce type d’implantation technologique, qui implique une collaboration humain-machine plus accrue qu’auparavant. Initialement, l’objectif était donc d’identifier les pratiques de GRH à mettre en place lors de l’implantation de robots collaboratifs. Cela dit, comme ce projet de recherche présente une démarche exploratoire semi-inductive, l’objectif de recherche a évolué vers plusieurs objectifs. Cette ouverture sur de nouveaux objectifs est subséquente aux résultats obtenus lors de la revue systématique de la littérature et de la collecte de données afin de dresser un portrait plus juste, adapté à l’état des connaissances et au terrain. Les objectifs poursuivis sont les suivants : 1) identifier les pratiques de GRH et d’autres pratiques organisationnelles en matière de gestion du changement facilitant l’implantation et l’adoption des robots collaboratifs 2) identifier les facteurs associés à l’humain, au robot et à l’environnement qui influencent l’implantation des robots collaboratifs, l’adoption et la collaboration entre l’opérateur et le robot

Economic analysis of productivity in the Irish Construction sector

Important strides to enhance productivity in the construction sector have been taken by both industry and Government in recent years. However, a collaborative, sectoral wide strategy to drive further increases in productivity is required, with the coordinated participation of all stakeholders across the full life cycle of a project. This report, commissioned by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER), produced by KPMG and Future Analytics Consulting Ltd. (FAC) and peer reviewed by TU Dublin, aims to understand and address the reasons for low levels of productivity in the Irish construction sector and identify specific recommendations and actions that can be undertaken to address these issues. All research was undertaken in 2019

Knowledge and Management Models for Sustainable Growth

In the last years sustainability has become a topic of global concern and a key issue in the strategic agenda of both business organizations and public authorities and organisations. Significant changes in business landscape, the emergence of new technology, including social media, the pressure of new social concerns, have called into question established conceptualizations of competitiveness, wealth creation and growth. New and unaddressed set of issues regarding how private and public organisations manage and invest their resources to create sustainable value have brought to light. In particular the increasing focus on environmental and social themes has suggested new dimensions to be taken into account in the value creation dynamics, both at organisations and communities level. For companies the need of integrating corporate social and environmental responsibility issues into strategy and daily business operations, pose profound challenges, which, in turn, involve numerous processes and complex decisions influenced by many stakeholders. Facing these challenges calls for the creation, use and exploitation of new knowledge as well as the development of proper management models, approaches and tools aimed to contribute to the development and realization of environmentally and socially sustainable business strategies and practices

Towards a Circular Economy in Sweden - Barriers for new business models and the need for policy intervention

In order to halt current resource depletion and minimise environmental destruction, we need to reduce our dependency on virgin raw materials. There is a growing political consensus in the EU that we have to move away from our current linear economic system to one that is based on closing material loops, a circular economy. There is therefore a great need for new business models based on for example sharing, reusing and remanufacturing. A small portion of frontrunner companies are leading the way in Sweden and internationally, however the current political and societal trajectory impose numerous barriers for such businesses to scale up. New and revised policy intervention is therefore needed to pave the way for circular business models. In Sweden, a lack of policies which promote such development is apparent, and the interrelations between barriers for certain business models and the need for policy intervention is highly unexplored. This study identifies barriers and the need for policy intervention to overcome them, based on input from representatives from companies currently practicing business models based on circular economy thinking. It further maps relevant environmental policies in Sweden, in order to understand how the current political landscape addresses elements related to circular economy and make suggestions for how to further support circular business models in Sweden via policy intervention. Findings show that barriers are first and foremost institutional and market based related to price signals and consumer behaviour. But they are also political in terms of lack of ambition and long-term thinking, technological in terms of product design, and organisational in terms of lack of funding and lack of integration of the concept into core business. Policy intervention therefore needs to be multi-dimensional. A mix of measures based on regulations, economic instruments, information spreading and demand stimulations need to be placed within an overall governance framework based on enabling infrastructure, national targets and broad, long-term agreements

Systematic review of Industry 5.0 from main aspects to the execution status

Purpose: The main aim of this study is to review different aspects of Industry 5.0 (I5.0) to foster this novel aspect of industrial sustainability. The study makes a comprehensive study to explore the implementation status of I5.0 in industries, key technologies, adoption level in different nations, barriers to I5.0 adoption together with mitigation actions. Methodology: To do a systematic study of the literature authors have used preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis (PRISMA) methodology to extract articles related to the field of the study. Findings: It has been found that academic literature on the I5.0 is continuously growing as the wheel of time is running. Most of the studies on I5.0 are conceptual-based, and manufacturing and medical industries are the flag bearer in the adoption of this novel aspect. Further, due to I5.0's infancy, many organizations face difficulty to adopt the same due to financial burden, resistive nature, a well-designed standard for cyber-physical systems, and an effective mechanism for human-robot collaboration. Further study also provides avenues for future research in terms of the identification of collaborative mechanisms between machines and wells, the establishment of different standards for comparison, development of I5.0-enabled models for different industrial domains. The study also provides concrete measures for mapping the I5.0 technologies with Sustainable development goals (SDGs). Originality: The study is of the first kind that reviews different facets of I5.0in conjunction with Kazien’s measures along with application areas and provides avenues for future research to improve an organization's environmental and social sustainability

Resource-Based View and SMEs Performance Exporting through Foreign Intermediaries: The Mediating Effect of Management Controls

Following the resource-based view, this research empirically explores the role of formal and informal management control in mobilizing export resources to develop export capabilities, influencing the export performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in an interorganizational relationship context. Empirical data were collected using a survey administrated online to finance managers in Spanish SMEs which use foreign intermediaries to access export markets. In this setting, evidence mainly suggests, first, that management control systems (MCSs) play a relevant mediating role between the effect of, on the one hand, resources on capabilities, and, on the other hand, resources and capabilities on performance. Second, that MCSs and capabilities play a interrelated double mediating effect between the impact of resources on performance; more specifically, a significant double indirect effect is found (1) between financial resources, behavior control, customer relationship building capability and performance, and (2) between physical resources, behavior control, customer relationship building capability and performanc