FROM POTENTIAL TO REALIZED IMPACTS: THE BRIDGING ROLE OF DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES IN FAIR DATA

Science funders, research institutions and policymakers have been investing heavily in building digital infrastructures that will enable findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) data. Despite the enthusiasm for these infrastructures, many scientists still do not understand how they can be leveraged to advance their research goals. To address this gap, we conduct an inductive qualitative study of a digital infrastructure supporting FAIR data and propose a framework exploring how these infrastructures enable new capabilities in researchers’ workflows. First, we find that these infrastructures facilitate the seamless transition between the storage and analysis of data for new insights. Second, we find that these infrastructures enable researchers to extend their typical individual research workflow to larger scales of collaboration. By exploring the bridging role of digital infrastructures in FAIR, our study hopes to inform the scientific community and policymakers on how to accelerate the adoption of FAIR practices and maximize the future impact of these infrastructures currently under development

The Nexus of Translational Action

Sensors, actuators, and controllers are digital objects fundamental to automation-intensive industries such as transportation, manufacturing, and energy. As technologies that enable and arbitrate the transition from physical to digital worlds, they are increasingly pervasive in all facets of industry and logistics, consumer technologies, or even medicine. Hybrid digital objects with physical and digital components are composed of bitstrings that are inscribed onto a material bearer. Translational action refers to how bitstrings are accessed in the material bearer or how they are moved from one layer of the bearer to another. We perform an inductive study of 170 sensing, computational, and imaging technologies originating from leading scientific research institutions to better understand the nature of translational action. Across four physical and digital configurations, we identify seven forms of translational action. The findings offer insight into cybernetic control theory central to automated systems to understand the nature of their logic, processes, and interdependence

Environmental sustainability and internationalization of the European food manufacturing industry

Confederación Granadina de Empresario

The role of the institutional context on firms’ environmental strategy

El objetivo general de la tesis doctoral se centra en el análisis del desempeño medioambiental de las empresas y los aspectos institucionales del país de origen. Esta tesis doctoral se ha desarrollado bajo un paraguas común referido al estudio de las diferentes dimensiones del país de origen de las empresas desde el enfoque institucional. A partir de este enfoque institucional común, se han formulado objetivos específicos. Estos objetivos específicos se han centrado principalmente en estudiar la relación entre el desempeño ambiental y la internacionalización, junto con el análisis del papel de las características del país de origen.Tesis Univ. Granada

CS3 2022 - Cloud Storage Synchronization and Sharing

This presentation explores what is the role of digital infrastructures in the FAIR movement? How can we improve the adoption of digital infrastructures by researchers? Presentation done by ESADE Business School, which leads the Science Mesh "Assessment of Business Impact" task