Exploring student diversity: Entrepreneurial Intent & Self-efficacy, Personal Characteristics, Creativity, and the Link to Performance in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Training

Summary. Teaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship for natural science or business students is a complex process, where not only knowing the theories of entrepreneurship, the elements of a business plan and financial planning is needed, but also skills in identifying opportunities in the market or exploring own creativity to come up new ideas for future startups can become crucial. Using applied teaching therefore also becomes and exploration of students own personal characteristics. In this paper I investigate the broader skillset and characteristics of the students enrolled in an innovation and entrepreneurship course. To understand the students I focus on studying the variation in a number of innovation and entrepreneurship related factors, namely entrepreneurial intent, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, personal characteristics (i.e. their profile in terms of extraversion/introversion, intuiting/sensing, thinking/feeling, and perceiving/judging.), and their creativity. The results show a highly varied group of students. The work is explorative and based on data gathered at University of Copenhagen (UCPH), the data analysis mainly consists of descriptive data and correlations. Finally I reflect on how the findings direct future teachingin entrepreneurship and innovation

The effect of path-dependence and uncertainty on the value of mature technologies

This paper examines whether technological advances benefit more from path-dependent or path-creating capabilities. Consistently with recent advances in the literature, we argue that multiple technological trajectories can coexist in a field; therefore, firms may contribute to technological development by recombining in novel ways the capabilities that are widespread in the field, or by building novel and rare capabilities. The paper also conceptualises how technological uncertainty affects the value of such capabilities. Using patent data from 1977 to 2007 for firms developing the hydrocracking technology, the paper finds that both rare and widespread capabilities are valuable to the invention process, thereby suggesting that both path-dependent and path-creating strategies are beneficial for technological development. The paper shows that uncertainty has an inverted U-shaped effect on invention value. In particular, under conditions of low uncertainty, path-dependent capabilities tend to be more valuable. </jats:p

Detection and aerosol treatment of small airway disease in pediatric cystic fibrosis and asthma

Respiratory disease is frequently present in childhood. It can be divided into upper airway disease and lower airway or lung disease. Two important lung diseases in childhood are cystic fibrosis (CF) and asthma. They are important because CF is the most common lethal genetic disease in the Caucasian population and asthma is one of the most frequent chronic diseases of childhood, with a prevalence of approximately 10% of children in the West

Anti-Counterfeiting Strategy Unfolded A Closer Look to the Case of a Large Multinational Manufacturer

We examine in detail how one large mobile phone manufacturer develops its anti-counterfeit strategy and seizes counterfeit products on the market. We couple qualitative data (observations from 150 counterfeit sales points worldwide, two focus groups, a survey with 151 respondents, interviews with 90 informants) with econometric analysis of 3,333 fights the focal firm undertook against more than 2,000 counterfeiters in 75 countries over six years (2006-2011). We focus on firm\u2019s seizure of counterfeit products when consumers\u2019 safety is at risk. As the firm is more sensitive to product safety than counterfeiters, we found that the firm generally performs larger seizures when unsafe products are involved, but this is less true in the firm\u2019s main market, likely because higher profitability offers higher incentives to counterfeiters

Designers as Determinant for Aesthetic Innovations

The innovation literature states that scientists are core ingredients in creating technological innovations. This paper investigates whether the hiring of a designer generates aesthetic innovations by a firm. Further we investigate what the level of design knowledge of the receiving firm means for the firms? absorptive capacity, in terms of turning the hiring of the designer into aesthetic innovations. We explore a unique dataset containing information on firms, their hiring of designers and aesthetic innovations measured by design applications (design patents). Our findings show that hiring a designer does increase firms? likelihood of producing aesthetic innovations. Secondly, firms with prior experience of aesthetic innovations are more likely to apply for design registrations. Thirdly, there is a positive moderating effect of firms with prior experience of generating aesthetic innovations on the effect of hiring a designer on aesthetic innovation outcome

Driver's situation awareness during supervision of automated control - comparison between SART and SAGAT measurement techniques

Systems enabling to drive automatically are being introduced on the market. When using this technology, drivers are in need for interfaces which support them with supervision of the automated control. Assessment of Situation Awareness (SA) which drivers are able to gain while using such interfaces, is important. Based on comparison between SART and SAGAT measurement techniques within a simulator study, the test set-up presented in this paper suggests to be successful in providing a coherent test-bed with relevant situations to assess the level of SA drivers gain when involved in supervision of automated control and while using different types of feedback