Distance education possibilities analysis for integrated innovative projects

The materials presented the possibilities development of solar and wind power plants, project development for all those who are engaged in the power studies and baseness. In this, phase of work in NTU "KPI" – studies the possibility of increasing the economic efficiency of alternative energy sources. A review of the literature and the necessary articles written on the subject: аs technologies and economies develop and become more complex, energy needs increase greatly; types and methods of alternative energy, as well as the possibility of calculating the basic set of main economic indicators are classified; identified possible areas of work in obtaining the necessary infor-mation and results. Energy is a fundamental input for economic systems. Current economic activity depends overwhelmingly on fossil fuels including oil, coal, and natural gas. These fuels are non-renewable. Renewable sources such as hydroelectric, wind, and solar power currently provide less than 10% of global energy. In just a few decide solar and wind power has developed from alternative energy sources to a new fast growing industrial branch. The history of industrial civilization is a history of energy transitions. In less developed, agrarian economies, people's basic need for food calories is provided through simple forms of agriculture, which is essentially a method of capturing solar energy for human use. As economies develop and become more complex, energy needs increase greatly

Cycling and Health Innovative Pilot Projects (Executive summary)

The Cycling and Health Innovative Pilot Project (CHIPPS) provided cycle training for adults in Nottingham and Northamptonshire from 2007 to 2010. The Primary Care Trusts in each area have delivered these projects in collaboration with partners. In Nottingham collaboration with Ridewise delivered the Cycling for Health Project that aimed to involve people from deprived communities and employees of the Primary Care Trust; in Northamptonshire the Easy Rider project delivered via Age UK was also aimed at those living in deprived areas and middle-aged people. Throughout the three years the initiative was evaluated by the Carnegie Research Institute of Leeds Metropolitan University. Those taking part completed questionnaires at the outset, at the end of their training, three months later and finally after a year. In addition, a mix of one-to-one interviews and focus groups were conducted with policy makers, those delivering the projects and participants (including those who dropped out)

Innovator resilience potential: A process perspective of individual resilience as influenced by innovation project termination

Innovation projects fail at an astonishing rate. Yet, the negative effects of innovation project failures on the team members of these projects have been largely neglected in research streams that deal with innovation project failures. After such setbacks, it is vital to maintain or even strengthen project members’ innovative capabilities for subsequent innovation projects. For this, the concept of resilience, i.e. project members’ potential to positively adjust (or even grow) after a setback such as an innovation project failure, is fundamental. We develop the second-order construct of innovator resilience potential, which consists of six components – self-efficacy, outcome expectancy, optimism, hope, self-esteem, and risk propensity – that are important for project members’ potential of innovative functioning in innovation projects subsequent to a failure. We illustrate our theoretical findings by means of a qualitative study of a terminated large-scale innovation project, and derive implications for research and management

Beyond enterprise resource planning projects: innovative strategies for competitive advantage

ABSTRACT A rapidly changing business environment and legacy IT problems has resulted in many organisations implementing standard package solutions. This 'common systems' approach establishes a common IT and business process infrastructure within organisations and its increasing dominance raises several important strategic issues. These are to what extent do common systems impose common business processes and management systems on competing firms, and what is the source of competitive advantage if the majority of firms employ almost identical information systems and business processes? A theoretical framework based on research into legacy systems and earlier IT strategy literature is used to analyse three case studies in the manufacturing, chemical and IT industries. It is shown that the organisations are treating common systems as the core of their organisations' abilities to manage business transactions. To achieve competitive advantage they are clothing these common systems with information systems designed to capture information about competitors, customers and suppliers, and to provide a basis for sharing knowledge within the organisation and ultimately with economic partners. The importance of these approaches to other organisations and industries is analysed and an attempt is made at outlining the strategic options open to firms beyond the implementation of common business systems

Research Role in Denining Customer needs on Innovative Projects

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Further Education Funding Council : circular : 99/53 : ILT implementation plan : management and finance

"Information on the release of funds to assist in the development of college ILT infrastructure under the FEILT implementation plan. Invitation for applications for further funds to undertake innovative ICT projects" -- front cover

Investment attractiveness of innovative projects

Інвестиційна привабливість – це сукупність факторів, аналіз яких вказує на можливість вкладання коштів в той чи інший об'єкт і отримання певного ефекту від здійсненої операції. В статті представлено організаційну схему учасників управління конкурентоспроможністю інноваційних проектів на основі досягнення взаємодії оцінки інвестиційної привабливості підприємства, що впроваджує інновації, і реалізованих ним завдань. Виділено ряд переваг над конкурентами, які потенційно може мати підприємство в ході реалізації інноваційного проекту. Запропоновано створення на підприємстві ради з інноваційних проектів, що є першою необхідною сходинкою перебудови структури управління для прискорення і підвищення ефективності інноваційно-інвестиційної діяльності. Перераховано обов'язки, а також переваги та недоліки інноваційних рад. Сформовано механізм поетапного управління конкурентоспроможністю інноваційного проекту.Investment attractiveness is a combination of factors, the analysis of which indicates the possibility of investing in a particular object and obtaining a certain effect from the operation. The object of the article is to substantiate the practical recommendations for the formation of a mechanism of stage-by-stage management of innovative projects competitiveness, which are intended to increase their attractiveness for potential investors. The substantial amount of scientific work of Ukrainian and foreign scientists of various economic schools is devoted to issues of ensuring the investment attractiveness of enterprises. They investigated various aspects of this problem; in particular, they theoretically substantiated the investment attractiveness of an enterprise as an object of management, and paid considerable attention to assessing the investment attractiveness of enterprises. At the same time, issues of an applied nature remain insufficiently covered, in particular, the formation of a mechanism for the phased management of the competitiveness of innovative projects, which will increase their investment attractiveness. In this article the organizational chart of the participants of the competitiveness management of innovative projects on the basis of achieving the interaction of assessing the investment attractiveness of an enterprise, which implement innovations and the tasks accomplished by it, is presented. A number of advantages over competitors, which a company may potentially have during the implementation of an innovative project, are highlighted. The creation of an innovative council at the enterprise is suggested. Responsibilities, as well as advantages and disadvantages of innovative council are listed. The basis for the establishment of a mechanism for the phased competitiveness management of an innovation project is laid down. Creation of innovative councils is the first stage of the transformation of the traditional management structure of enterprises, which is intended to increase the success of the implementation of innovations. The proposed creation of an innovative council at the enterprise is the first necessary step in restructuring the management structure to accelerate and increase the efficiency of innovative and investment activities

Do R&D subsidies matter? Evidence for the German service sector

In recent times the service sector is often called the driving force of today?s economies. This paper analyses the innovative activities of German service firms. We investigate whether firms that receive public subsidies for innovation projects engage more in innovative activities than others. Additionally, we test the hypothesis that innovative firms are more likely to get public grants in the future. Empirically, it turns out that public grants raise the firms? privately financed innovative activities. The more grants a firm has received in the past, the more it invests in current innovation projects. Furthermore, innovating firms are more likely to have future access to public grants. Additionally, the share of university graduates of firms' total employees is an important factor for future participation in public R&D schemes. --Innovation,Public R&D Subsidies,Service Sector,Policy Evaluation

A grassroots sustainable energy niche? Reflections on community energy case studies

System changing innovations for sustainability transitions are proposed to emerge in radical innovative niches. ‘Strategic Niche Management’ theory predicts that niche level actors and networks will aggregate learning from local projects, distilling and disseminating best practice. This should lower the bar for new projects to form and establish, thereby encouraging the innovation to diffuse through replication. Within this literature, grassroots innovations emerging from civil society are an under researched site of sociotechnical innovation for sustainable energy transitions. We consider the emerging community energy sector in the UK, in order to empirically test this model. Community energy is a diverse grassroots led sector including both demand and supply side initiatives for sustainable energy such as community owned renewable energy generation, village hall refurbishments, behaviour change initiatives and energy efficiency projects. Our analysis draws on in depth qualitative case study research with twelve local projects, and a study of how intermediary organisations aim to support local projects and encourage replication. This rich data allows us to examine the extent and nature of interactions between projects and intermediary actors in order to evaluate the utility of niche theories in the civil society context. In particular, we investigate which types of knowledge, support and resources were needed by our case study projects to become established and thrive, and compare and contrast this with those offered by the emerging community energy niche. Our findings indicate that while networking and intermediary organisations can effectively collate and spread some types of learning and information necessary for replication, this is not sufficient: tacit knowledge, trust and confidence are essential to these projects’ success, but are more difficult to abstract and translate to new settings. We draw out the implications of our findings for niche theory, for community energy and other grassroots practitioners aiming to build robust influential niches, and for policymakers eager to harness civil society’s innovative potential for sustainability