Antecedents and determinants of high-tech SMEs’ commercialisation enablers: opening the black box of open innovation practices

Innovation activities have become globalised and open in ways that were unimaginable 20 years ago. These changes have brought new insight into research on innovation activities and specific innovation practices in organisations, including that previous research largely ignored small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper tests a variance-based structural equation model (SEM) for selected antecedents and determinants of commercialisation enablers on a sample of 105 SMEs from Slovenia – a small, open, post-transition economy with a dominant SME sector. The main contribution of the paper lies in testing how two specific open innovation practices (open innovation information exchange and open innovation collaboration) impact the commercialisation enablers of high-tech SMEs through their innovation activities (antecedent) and their innovativeness (determinant). Both open innovation practices show statistically significant effect on high-tech SMEs’ innovativeness, thus supporting the idea that both collaboration and information exchange lead to more innovativeness in high-tech SMEs. They also show a high impact of internal (organisational) factors on innovation activities of and a high impact of innovativeness on the commercialisation enablers of high-tech SMEs

Proposal for the implementation of a learning project using discarded electronic devices

Diploma presents a suggestion how to execute learning project with the use of discarded electronic devices. It could be realized in one technological day dedicated to the elective subject Robotics in technics, which is part of 8th grade curriculum. In diploma I first explain the basic meaning of redundant electronic devices and curriculum of subjects Robotics in technics, Electronics and Electronics with robotics from 9th grade of elementary school. Then I describe some discarded electronic devices in which there are still some totally useful electronic elements. Later on I represent some key electronic elements which will be used as part of this suggestion, some exercises for their usage and last but not least the escalator model which will be the final assignment of the teaching project of my diploma. Diploma is written in a way that can also help every teacher who would want to perform such a learning project

Predlog izvedbe učnega projekta z uporabo odsluženih elektronskih naprav

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Uspeh agencije ACER pri vzpostavljanju in zagotavljanju delovanja notranjega energetskega trga skozi prizmo NRO in trgovcev

The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) was launched in 2011 to contribute to the establishment and functioning of the eu’s internal energy market. This study aims to evaluate ACER’s success in establishing and ensuring the functioning of the internal energy market, both from ACER’s and its stakeholders’ (energy regulators and energy traders in the eu member states) perspective. The paper includes the results of interviews with nine national regulatory authorities (NRAS) and ten energy traders fromthe eu member states. This research revealed that, based on their perception, ACER is actually crucial for the operation of the internal market. In addition, NRAS and energy traders mostly agree that the eu has a nearly functional internal energy market and that ACER is vitally important for the functioning of the internal market

Antecedents and Determinants of High-tech SMEs’ Commercialisation Enablers: Opening the Black Box of Open Innovation Practices

Innovation activities have become globalised and open in ways that were unimaginable 20 years ago. These changes have brought new insight into research on innovation activities and specific innovation practices in organisations, including that previous research largely ignored small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper tests a variance-based structural equation model (SEM) for selected antecedents and determinants of commercialisation enablers on a sample of 105 SMEs from Slovenia – a small, open, post-transition economy with a dominant SME sector. The main contribution of the paper lies in testing how two specific open innovation practices (open innovation information exchange and open innovation collaboration) impact the commercialisation enablers of high-tech SMEs through their innovation activities (antecedent) and their innovativeness (determinant). Both open innovation practices show statistically significant effect on high-tech SMEs’ innovativeness, thus supporting the idea that both collaboration and information exchange lead to more innovativeness in high-tech SMEs. They also show a high impact of internal (organisational) factors on innovation activities of and a high impact of innovativeness on the commercialisation enablers of high-tech SMEs

A set of SNPs enabling identification of trouts and their hybrids in Salmo genus

We present a set of nuclear DNA SNPs enabling discrimination between Salmo marmoratus, S. obtusirostris and different evolutionary lineages of S. trutta. The loci containing SNPs were either isolated from marble trout nuclear DNA or inferred from literature. By comparing the joint sequences (ca. 5,830 bp) among 48 tested individuals, 127 substitutions and 8 indels were found. Forty-one of them, distributed across 16 loci, turned out as species orlineages specific. This set of SNP markers may be applied as molecular tool for genetic management purposes as well as in revolving phylogenetic and taxonomic uncertainties of different trout stocks