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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,056 Views
20 Pages

A concrete-filled steel tube (CFST) column permits convenient and fast construction, and its use for high-rise buildings is increasing. Meanwhile, the CFST structure has great potential for use in residence buildings, owing to its smooth evaluation....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,286 Views
26 Pages

15 July 2025

In the context of the explosive growth of the digital economy, how inter-organizational connectivity affects corporate ambidextrous innovation has emerged as a pressing issue in the current digital economy. Based on the perspectives of the innovation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,034 Views
23 Pages

26 April 2021

With heavy air pollution and the highest CO2 emissions in the world, China is in urgent need of technology innovation to improve the energy efficiency and control the pollution emission. This study empirically investigates the impact of environmental...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,362 Views
28 Pages

6 June 2025

With the continuous development of today’s economy and the growing interest in green technological innovation, this study investigates the impact of executive political connection heterogeneity (EPCH) on corporate green technological innovation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,367 Views
25 Pages

7 August 2021

Using the panel data of 263 prefecture-level cities in China, this article explores the development of green technology innovation under the influence of intra-city industrial collaborative agglomeration and inter-city network connectivity. Regressio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,927 Views
18 Pages

10 December 2024

To explore how firms’ network connections improve product innovative performance (PIP) for sustainable development, this study takes 230 firms involved in product innovation as the research object, and uses the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,107 Views
19 Pages

1 September 2025

With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), how firms can better fulfill corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the context of AI and the role of CSR in firms have attracted increasing attention. This study explored the role of CSR and AI adopti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
569 Views
20 Pages

Motivated by the ethical implications of gender diversity on boards, this study examines the effect of female directors on symbolic green innovation disclosure and substantive green innovation disclosure. The study defines substantive green innovatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,229 Views
19 Pages

18 May 2023

With the arrival of the era of innovative economy, innovation is of great significance for the development of China, and even the world. Based on statistical data and taking 2009, 2014, and 2019 as node years, this study uses the entropy weight metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,977 Views
18 Pages

24 May 2021

Intelligent Connected Vehicles (ICV) are reshaping the pattern of traditional automobile industry, and they have gradually become the strategic direction of more and more countries. The test field and demonstration zones, as important bridges linking...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,284 Views
21 Pages

18 September 2020

Although government subsidies have gradually become a crucial means of endorsing public innovation policies, there remains no unified conclusion on the mechanism of their role in enterprise sustainable innovation investment. Employing sample data of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,712 Views
24 Pages

27 November 2023

In order to explore the horizontal joint connection performance of the innovative tooth groove connection and vertical reinforcement lapping in the reserved hole, five horizontal joint specimens were designed and constructed in this paper. Through th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,717 Views
18 Pages

14 April 2022

The construction industry is the lifeblood of the national economy; thereby, to some extent, the green transformation of the construction industry is representative of the industrialization levels of modern construction, especially in China. Based on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,353 Views
18 Pages

Taking China’s carbon emissions and trading pilot (CCETP) as a quasi-natural experiment, this paper examines the impact of CCETP on publicly listed private firms’ innovation input and the moderating effect of the firms’ political co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,437 Views
29 Pages

Broadband connectivity is now essential to ensure a competitive advantage for any business. The analysis of Scotland’s crucial IT infrastructure contribution supported the authors’ thesis that the Government plays a decisive role in Open...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,299 Views
20 Pages

2 July 2024

Innovation serves as a vital catalyst for sustainable urban development, with the enhancement of urban innovation efficiency representing a critical strategy to bolster cities’ innovative capacity. Rigorous scientific measurement of urban innov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,204 Views
18 Pages

20 October 2022

This paper uses the panel data of A-share listed companies on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2008 to 2019 as the original sample and uses panel two-way fixed-effect, panel Tobit and mediation effect models to study the impacts of poli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,591 Views
30 Pages

13 March 2024

China’s economy has experienced a period of remarkable growth and entered a stage of high-quality development, necessitating the implementation of innovative eco-friendly practices involving green technology innovation. The capital market envir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,997 Views
23 Pages

1 December 2024

Intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs) are increasingly emerging as a pivotal driving force for promoting sustainable development in global transportation due to their outstanding performance in mitigating carbon emissions, alleviating traffic congest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,287 Views
26 Pages

The retrofitting of existing reinforced concrete (RC) buildings with cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels presents a promising approach for enhancing seismic performance and overall structural resilience. However, effective integration of CLT with exi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,694 Views
16 Pages

22 August 2019

Modular buildings have the highest levels of precasting in the current building system. There are some defects in present modular connections, such as the difficulties of construction, the weakening of the bearing capacity of beams or columns, and da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,201 Views
28 Pages

An Innovative Steel Sleeve Dry Connection SRCC Frame: Seismic Performance Evaluation

  • Yuxuan He,
  • Fangcheng Liu,
  • Ruirui Ge,
  • Wenbo Zhao,
  • Jie Hu,
  • Jie He and
  • Yuan Yang

21 January 2025

Split reinforced concrete column (SRCC), recognized for their exceptional ductility as seismic members, have faced developmental challenges due to the complexities of on-site casting. This study presents an innovative steel sleeve dry connection asse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,091 Views
21 Pages

19 September 2023

Modular steel buildings show high assembly degree and fast installation speed. The inter-module connection (IMC) is one of the key technologies that restrict the robustness of modular steel buildings. An innovative IMC with a cross-shaped plug-in con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,960 Views
23 Pages

Distributed Fiber-Optic Strain Sensing of an Innovative Reinforced Concrete Beam–Column Connection

  • Shenghan Zhang,
  • Han Liu,
  • Esam Darwish,
  • Khalid M. Mosalam and
  • Matthew J. DeJong

23 May 2022

Distributed fiber-optic sensing (DFOS) technologies have been used for decades to detect damage in infrastructure. One recent DFOS technology, Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry (OFDR), has attracted attention from the structural engineering comm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,004 Views
19 Pages

Enhanced Precipitation Nowcasting via Temporal Correlation Attention Mechanism and Innovative Jump Connection Strategy

  • Wenbin Yu,
  • Daoyong Fu,
  • Chengjun Zhang,
  • Yadang Chen,
  • Alex X. Liu and
  • Jingjing An

10 October 2024

This study advances the precision and efficiency of precipitation nowcasting, particularly under extreme weather conditions. Traditional forecasting methods struggle with precision, spatial feature generalization, and recognizing long-range spatial c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,020 Views
20 Pages

A New Paradigm in Torque Transfer: Rethinking Shaft Key Placement

  • Matus Veres,
  • Frantisek Brumercik,
  • Ronald Bastovansky and
  • Robert Kohar

18 November 2024

In this study, an innovative approach to torque transmission mechanisms within the context of hub–shaft connections is introduced by exploring the viability of a transverse key configuration. Unlike traditional longitudinal key placements, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,379 Views
19 Pages

Analysis of China’s Urban Innovation Connection Network Evolution: A Case Study of Henan Province

  • Weidong Zhu,
  • Zilin Yue,
  • Naiying He,
  • Kuifeng Luan,
  • Li Ye and
  • Chuyi Qian

18 January 2022

The research on urban innovation links is of great significance for revealing the structural characteristics of innovation space. At the same time, it is of great significance for formulating regional innovation development strategies. Based on stati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,007 Views
15 Pages

8 August 2024

The sustainability of government innovation relies on the continuous innovative behavior of government employees. Information technology drives innovation, but its extensive use leads government employees to work outside of regular hours. This not on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,445 Views
19 Pages

3 July 2024

This study integrates the (extended) resource-based view (ERBV/RBV) and non-market strategy (i.e., corporate political activity) to investigate the role of internal and external resources as drivers of innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,813 Views
22 Pages

Corporate green innovation is an effective way to achieve energy conservation and emission reduction. Enterprises’ willingness to pursue green innovation is increasingly affected by external factors. By using a quasi-natural experiment of China’s Sto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,329 Views
12 Pages

30 August 2023

In order to study the dynamic mechanism of the impact of technological innovation diffusion on enterprise population networks, a corresponding relationship between enterprise population networks and predatory models was established based on a predato...

  • Article
  • Open Access
801 Views
17 Pages

3 July 2025

Flat slab structures are extensively utilized in modern construction owing to their efficient load transfer mechanisms and optimized space utilization. Nevertheless, the persistent issue of brittle punching shear failure at connection zones continues...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,788 Views
17 Pages

2 March 2019

Employing a sample consisting of Chinese A-share listed companies, this study carries out an empirical research to investigate the influence path of political connections on enterprise environmental performance. The results show a strong positive ass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,277 Views
13 Pages

The pharmaceutical industry is a high-technology industry that requires a combination of in-depth knowledge from various fields. It is characterized by high cost, high risk and a long-term perspective due to the high level of regulation. In addition,...

  • Project Report
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,486 Views
19 Pages

Experimenting with RRI tools to Drive Sustainable Agri-Food Research: The SASS Case Study from Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Luca Tricarico,
  • Andrea Galimberti,
  • Ausilia Campanaro,
  • Chiara Magoni and
  • Massimo Labra

22 January 2020

The need to develop experimental tools for a responsible research and innovation (RRI) framework is relevant for managing research agendas and policy making that seriously take into account the complex conditions of innovation development (linked to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,291 Views
17 Pages

An Improved Innovation Adaptive Kalman Filter for Integrated INS/GPS Navigation

  • Bo Sun,
  • Zhenwei Zhang,
  • Dianju Qiao,
  • Xiaotong Mu and
  • Xiaochen Hu

7 September 2022

The performance of transportation systems has been greatly improved by the rapid development of connected and autonomous vehicles, of which high precision and reliable positioning is a key technology. An improved innovation adaptive Kalman filter (IA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
11,397 Views
27 Pages

(1) Background: Contemporary enterprises are putting more and more emphasis on shaping lasting and effective relationships with clients. This is not an easy task, especially in the conditions of Marketing 4.0, which imposes on enterprises the need to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,943 Views
22 Pages

Fad or Trend? Rethinking the Sustainability of Connected Health

  • Sonia Chien-I Chen,
  • Chenglian Liu and
  • Ridong Hu

27 February 2020

Policymakers, academics, and industry players have been focused on determining whether connected health (CH) is a fad or a trend by looking at its sustainability. Although the significance of innovation in healthcare is gradually rising, a definitive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,584 Views
20 Pages

20 November 2024

This study examines the impact of military cultural atmosphere on corporate innovation risk-taking within the unique institutional context of China. Leveraging an unbalanced panel dataset of 3506 Chinese A-share listed companies, comprising 15,381 ob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
850 Views
31 Pages

Experimental Verification of Innovative, Low-Cost Method for Upgrading of Seismic Resistance of Masonry Infilled Rc Frames

  • Jordan Bojadjiev,
  • Roberta Apostolska,
  • Golubka Necevska Cvetanovska,
  • Damir Varevac and
  • Julijana Bojadjieva

31 July 2025

For the past few decades, during each disastrous earthquake, severe damage and poor seismic performance of masonry infilled RC frames, including many newly designed ones, have been reported extensively. Inherent problems related to analysis and desig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,360 Views
24 Pages

A Multidisciplinary Approach for the Sustainable Technical Design of a Connected, Automated, Shared and Electric Vehicle Fleet for Inner Cities

  • Paul Rieger,
  • Paul Heckelmann,
  • Tobias Peichl,
  • Sarah Schwindt-Drews,
  • Nina Theobald,
  • Arturo Crespo,
  • Andreas Oetting,
  • Stephan Rinderknecht and
  • Bettina Abendroth

The increasing volume of personal motorized vehicles (PMVs) in cities has become a serious issue leading to congestion, noise, air pollution and high land consumption. To ensure the sustainability of urban transportation, it is imperative to transiti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
829 Views
27 Pages

The intelligent connected vehicle (ICV) industry encounters substantial challenges related to technology, policies, and funding. Its development relies not only on the close collaboration and technological innovation between carmakers and technology...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,402 Views
29 Pages

13 February 2025

With the continuous development of information and communication technology, “software-defined vehicle” has become the trend of the times. The intelligent connected vehicle (ICV) is becoming a new direction for the development of the auto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,746 Views
20 Pages

Future Outlook of Highway Operations with Implementation of Innovative Technologies Like AV, CV, IoT and Big Data

  • Muhammad Azmat,
  • Sebastian Kummer,
  • Lara Trigueiro Moura,
  • Federico Di Gennaro and
  • Rene Moser

In the last couple of decades, there has been an unparalleled growth in number of people who can afford motorized vehicles. This is increasing the number of vehicles on roads at an alarming rate and existing infrastructure and conventional methods of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,261 Views
16 Pages

12 January 2023

In this study, the concept of online food purchasing is explored where consumers are not required to visit markets to purchase their foods, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,327 Views
13 Pages

9 October 2017

Developing wind energy is one of the win win measures in response to climate changes and energy security. In order to promote technical innovation in the wind-energy industry, the government grants various fiscal subsidies to wind-energy companies ev...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,142 Views
26 Pages

26 July 2024

The connections between urban areas and innovations have been widely discussed and well recognized in both academia and practice. Notably, urban innovation (UI), as a type of innovation and/or innovation system, can significantly contribute to achiev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,214 Views
27 Pages

3 February 2023

This paper investigates the tensile behaviour of prefabricated concrete-filled steel tube (PCFST) columns with bolted connections. Innovative bolted column-column (BCC) connections are developed using standard structural bolts to simplify the constru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,024 Views
46 Pages

Innovative Machine Learning Strategies for Early Detection and Prevention of Pregnancy Loss: The Vitamin D Connection and Gestational Health

  • Md Abu Sufian,
  • Wahiba Hamzi,
  • Boumediene Hamzi,
  • A. S. M. Sharifuzzaman Sagar,
  • Mustafizur Rahman,
  • Jayasree Varadarajan,
  • Mahesh Hanumanthu and
  • Md Abul Kalam Azad

Early pregnancy loss (EPL) is a prevalent health concern with significant implications globally for gestational health. This research leverages machine learning to enhance the prediction of EPL and to differentiate between typical pregnancies and tho...

  • Review
  • Open Access
124 Views
38 Pages

28 January 2026

The aim of this article is to identify and systematize the principal research directions in sustainable strategic management (SSM) at the intersection of eco-innovation and business performance. Despite the growing prominence of sustainability in man...

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