infonet-economy

The European Academic Network for Open Innovation – (OI-Net) is an EU co-financed project designed to promote coopera,on on open innovation research and educa,on. It consists of 51 academic and industrial partners from 35 European countries. One of the outcomes of this project is the first European Survey on IdenCficaCon of Industrial Needs for Open InnovaCon EducaCon. The OI-Net...

The rapid increase in the number of published articles poses a challenge for curated databases to remain up-to-date. To help the scientific community and database curators deal with this issue, we have developed an application, neXtA5, which prioritizes the literature for specific curation requirements. Our system, neXtA5, is a curation service composed of three main elements. The...

Logistics section is one of the most important industrial sections to contribute to European economy. To improving efficiency and energy efficient of logistics, European Commission call new research theme ‘smart, green and integrated transport’ in its H2020 program. The paper presents a version on providing a cloud based platform for supporting big data empowered logistics services...

In the framework of an applied research project, three examples of virtual processes on touristic innovation in Switzerland were monitored from the beginning until the end. The three case studies were the Swiss Federal Railways Real Estate in Berne, the Valais State Rescue Organization in Sierre, and the Graubünden Tourism in Chur. The aim of documenting these observations was to...

When designing and assessing a business model, a more visual and practical ontology and framework is necessary. We draw lessons from usage by practitioners around the world of the Business Model Canvas (BMC) method to define three maturity level. We propose new concepts to help design the dynamic aspect of a business model. On the first level, the BMC supports novice users as they...

This paper reports on selected findings fr om a study conducted on collaborative-learning in undergraduate and post-graduate management educ ation. Course redesign called for the inclusion of synchronous and asynchronous learning tasks in th e course syllabus. The findings reported here are for the first, second, third and fourth iterations of the course carried out over a two-...

As institutions of public service, libraries play a major role in providing a democratic and egalitarian access to information and culture. Their missions are defined in several manifestos and codes of ethics (UNESCO, 1994; IFLA, 2012; IFLA, 2014). In such a context, integration of digital resources into libraries collections has created new difficulties, due to: - the complexity of...