Responses to Change in the Global Political Economy of Innovation – The Role of Sub-National States in Industrial Transition

This dissertation seeks to explore how sub-national levels of the state promote the development of new industrial sectors. To do so this dissertation builds on a series of theoretical perspectives on the role of the state in the economy and develops a unique view of how sub-national states coalesce and contrast within these perspectives. It does so through a series of empirical case studies focused on sub-national jurisdictions in North America that highlight diverse varieties of state actions that contribute, if not lead, industrial transitions and the development of new innovation-oriented industrial sectors. In so doing, the dissertation presents a complex interplay of roles and strategies that highlight the inadequacy of existing theoretical frameworks and the manner in which these frameworks are relevant at the sub-national level. The result contributes significant empirical depth to existing understandings of the role of the state and, in addition, builds new empirical and theoretical understanding of how the sub-national level interacts in processes of economic and industrial transition

Transients of platoons with asymmetric and different Laplacians

We consider an asymmetric control of platoons of identical vehicles with nearest-neighbor interaction. Recent results show that if the vehicle uses different asymmetries for position and velocity errors, the platoon has a short transient and low overshoots. In this paper we investigate the properties of vehicles with friction. To achieve consensus, an integral part is added to the controller, making the vehicle a third-order system. We show that the parameters can be chosen so that the platoon behaves as a wave equation with different wave velocities. Simulations suggest that our system has a better performance than other nearest-neighbor scenarios. Moreover, an optimization-based procedure is used to find the controller properties

Analysis of Social Media Usage on Marketing Division in Promoting Travello Hotel Bandung. Rizka Deviasani 127010029

The research is entitled “Analysis of Social Media Usage on Marketing Division in Promoting Travello Hotel Bandung”. It attempts to analyze the social media usage to promoting Travello Hotel Bandung. There are three questions that have to be answered first is to know how the marketing use social media to promote Travello Hotel Bandung. Second is to find out what marketing strategies in using social media to promote Travello Hotel Bandung. Third is to know how social media attract the customer to use the hotel products. The context of this paper is to analyze the social media usage on marketing division using the marketing mix theory. The writer uses a descriptive qualitative approach in order to answer the research question.The data is taken from the of interview and observation. The marketing found that the social media usage has affected the number of hotel occupancy. The marketing made social media accounts, made a certain event in social media account like promo buy one get one in certain days. The marketing strategies to promote the hotel by making a contract with online travel agents where the customer can only booked the hotel room with low price from social media. To attract the customers, the marketing staff create photo or image that can make customer interested and willing to visit back. In this case the conclusion is every parties mutually beneficial and of this research is that the websites are able to help the sales and profits of some second party discount. Keyword: social media, marketing, promotion,and online travel agen