Contemporary societies are facing a broad range of challenges, from pressures on human health and well-being to natural capital depletion, and the security of food, water and energy. These challenges ...are deeply intertwined with global processes, such as climate change and with local events such as natural disasters. The EU's research & innovation (R&I) policy is now seeking to address these challenges from a new perspective, with Nature-Based Solutions, and turn them into innovation opportunities that optimise the synergies between nature, society and the economy. Nature-Based Solutions can be an opportunity for innovation, and are here promoted by both policymakers and practitioners as a cost-effective way of creating a greener, more sustainable, and more competitive economy.
Since 2013, the European Commission has devoted particular attention to Nature-Based Solutions through consultations and dialogues that sought to make the concept of these solutions more concrete and to define the concept's place within the spectrum of ecosystem-based approaches. In 2014, the Commission launched an expert group, which conducted further analysis, and made recommendations to help increase the use of Nature-Based Solutions and bring nature back into cities. In 2015, a survey was conducted on citizens' views and perceptions of 'Nature in Cities' to provide further insight for future work. Based on these elements and on results from running EU projects, the Commission has developed an R&I agenda for Nature-Based Solutions and has published targeted calls for proposals for large-scale demonstration projects in this field in 2016 and 2017.
Additional R&I actions at EU level that promote systemic Nature-Based Solutions and their benefits to cities and territories are planned with the aim to improve the implementation capacity and evidence base for deploying Nature-Based Solutions and developing corresponding future markets. They are also expected to foster an interdisciplinary R&I and stakeholder community and the exchange of good practices in this field, as well as help shaping and implementing international R&I agendas on Nature-Based Solutions.
•The EC initiative on NBS consolidates several EU policies and actions under a common R&I agenda.•This initiative steers research on biodiversity and ecosystem services towards innovation for sustainable development.•U R&I actions to promote Nature-Based Solutions include i) developing the knowledge and evidence base, ii) creating a nature-based solutions community and iii) creating awareness.
Previous research on the association between organizational emotional capability and organizational innovation still stays in the conceptual framework stage with inadequate empirical studies. ...According to affective events theory, this study proposed and examined a multiple mediated moderation model of how emotional capability affects innovation performance. Based on matched multi‐source surveys of R&D department managers and employees and employees in 435 Chinese high‐tech innovating firms, we found that organizational commitment and organizational learning acted as mediators on the relationship between organizational emotional capability and innovation performance, external environmental dynamics moderated the relationship between emotional capability and commitment, external environmental competitiveness moderated the relationship between organizational commitment and learning, and environmental dynamics and competitiveness have a positive joint moderating effect on the relationship between emotional capability and organizational commitment. The findings of this study make essential contributions to the research of organizational capability and innovation in dynamic and competitive environments.
Adaptive capacity has been described as instrumental for the development of resilience in healthcare. Yet, our theoretical understanding of adaptive capacity remains relatively underdeveloped. This ...research therefore aims at developing a new understanding of the nature of adaptive capacity by exploring the following research questions: 1. What constitutes adaptive capacity across different healthcare contexts? and 2. What type of enabling factors support adaptive capacity across different healthcare contexts? The study used a novel combination of qualitative methods featuring a metasynthesis of narratives based on empirical research to contribute understanding of adaptive capacity across different healthcare contexts. The findings show that adaptive capacity was found to include four forms: reframing, aligning, coping, and innovating. A framework illustrating the relatedness between the identified forms, in terms of resources, change and enablers, is provided. Based on these findings, a new definition of adaptive capacity for resilience in healthcare is proposed.
•Adaptive capacity across healthcare settings include the following forms: coping, aligning, reframing, and innovating.•Enabling factors for adaptive capacity include: knowledge, communication, trust, and the organization of resources.•A new definition of adaptive capacity for resilience in healthcare across healthcare settings is provided.•A new conceptual framework illustrating forms of adaptive capacity in terms of change, resources, and enablers is provided.
In search for a constructive response to the Covid pandemic, which exacerbated rather than caused the current crisis of university education, this article reports an implementation process of ...student-oriented teaching practices into an ESP curriculum of management-oriented study at a technological university, i.e., in an interdisciplinary environment, which, perhaps paradoxically, struggles with interdisciplinary approaches, deindividuation, compartmentalization of learning, and, consequently, with varying degrees of student engagement. Exploring students’ (in-)ability and (un-)willingness to become autonomous learners in the Covid era and beyond, the authors rethink students’ exposure to pedagogical tools and methods designed to foster student autonomy and combat instructional monotony including networking, telecollaboration, language coaching, alternative assessment methods, and discuss consumption of online education in general. Face to face with the volatile dynamics of technologically mediated interactions and evolving teacher/student roles, the article critically assesses the growing emphasis on students’ autonomy which is – much like the ability to cope without social contact – often taken for granted rather than systematically trained.
The objective of this paper is to address the smart innovation ecosystem characteristics that elucidate the assembly of all smart city notions into green, interconnected, instrumented, open, ...integrated, intelligent, and innovating layers composing a planning framework called,
Smart City Reference Model.
Since cities come in different shapes and sizes, the model could be adopted and utilized in a range of smart policy paradigms that embrace the green, broadband, and urban economies. These paradigms address global sustainability challenges at a local context. Smart city planners could use the reference model to define the conceptual layout of a smart city and describe the smart innovation characteristics in each one of the six layers. Cases of smart cities, such as Barcelona, Edinburgh, and Amsterdam are examined to evaluate their entirety in relation to the Smart City Reference Model.
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to frame innovation as a process of co-creation according to a practice-based view.Design methodology approach - The paper focuses on the innovation practices ...that occurred within the web contexts of ten companies. In accordance with netnography research, data include preliminary studies of the web-based context, naturalistic observations of the community and the activities of its members, and direct interactions with the members of the innovating community.Findings - This work proposes the integration of innovation, practice and the emerging co-creation research. The paper develops the five "Co-s" model including: co-ideation, co-valuation, co-design, co-test and co-launch. Each "Co-" represents a phase of the innovation process resulting from dynamic and on-going interactions among resources, actions, and a group of actors who are interrelated via a dense network. Within each "Co-", the authors identify practices and elements of practices.Practical implications - A firm's managers should influence co-creation opportunities by contributing to script practices. These managers should be able to consider more clearly the full options of co-creation activities and be involved in designing and responding to co-creation initiatives. They should also understand that each phase could provide an opportunity for collaboration that enhances the value of co-creation. In this manner, managers could orchestrate multiple resources (e.g., actors, actions tools and output language).Originality value - This work brings innovation into the realm of practice by moving the focus from the outcome to the process -, i.e. from innovation as a new artefact to the act of innovating. In this context, innovating is the system of on-going co-creation practices performed by people who merge knowledge, actions, tools, languages and artefacts to create something new and better. In this view, innovators are carriers of practices.
This article examines the wide range of surgical reconstruction options available for acromioclavicular (AC) joint injuries. However, the lack of consensus regarding the most suitable surgical ...techniques is attributed to the high and variable failure rates observed with current approaches.
This article presents a comprehensive overview of the current surgical principles and techniques used by renowned experts in the field of AC shoulder injury management.
It emphasizes the significance of addressing horizontal and rotational instability in AC injuries and highlights the impact of impaired scapular biomechanics.
By exploring these emerging concepts and strategies, the article aims to lay the foundation for future studies aimed at improving treatment outcomes and patient management.
Gamifying the process of innovating Shpakova, Agnessa; Dörfler, Viktor; MacBryde, Jill
Innovation (North Sydney),
10/2020, Letnik:
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Gamification is a new, rapidly growing trend impacting many areas of business such as learning and marketing. It has also been predicted to revolutionise the process of innovating. However, there ...have been very few examples of gamification supporting the innovating process within the academic literature. The starting point for this thought piece is whether this prediction can ever be fulfilled. We intend to open a discussion about the ways in which gamification and innovating may intertwine and how the mindset and the toolset of gamification can support the process of innovating. In particular, we showcase and review a set of examples of gamifying innovating activities from both research and practice. Coupling this review of practice with academic evidence from innovation literature, we highlight some gaps and explore potential directions for further research.
PSMA-negative but FDG-positive (PSMA-/FDG+) lesion in dual-tracer (
Ga-PSMA and
F-FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is associated with an unfavorable response to ...Lutetium-177 (
Lu)-PSMA-617. This study sought to develop both radiomics and clinical models for the precise prediction of the presence of PSMA-/FDG+ lesions in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CPRC).
A cohort of 298 patients who underwent dual-tracer PET/CT with a less than 5-day interval was included. The evaluation of the prognostic performance of the radiomics model drew upon the survival data derived from 40 patients with CRPC treated with
Lu-PSMA-617 in an external cohort. Two endpoints were evaluated: (a) prostate-specific antigen (PSA) response rate, defined as a reduction exceeding 50% from baseline and (b) overall survival (OS), measured from the initiation of
Lu-PSMA-617 to death from any cause.
PSMA-/FDG+ lesions were identified in 56 (18.8%) CRPC patients. Both radiomics (area under the curve AUC, 0.83) and clinical models (AUC, 0.78) demonstrated robust performance in PSMA-/FDG+ lesion prediction. Decision curve analysis revealed that the radiomics model yielded a net benefit over the 'screen all' strategy at a threshold probability of ⩾4%. At a 5% probability threshold, the radiomics model facilitated a 21% reduction in
F-FDG PET/CT scans while only missing 2% of PSMA-/FDG+ cases. Patients with a low estimated score exhibited significantly prolonged OS (hazard ratio = 0.49,
= 0.029) and a higher PSA response rate (75%
35%,
= 0.011) compared to those with a high estimated score.
This study successfully developed two models with accurate estimations of the risk associated with PSMA-/FDG+ lesions in CRPC patients. These models held potential utility in aiding the selection of candidates for
Lu-PSMA-617 treatment and guiding
Ga-PSMA PET/CT-directed radiotherapy.
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