This article examines the inefficient use of resources in the Brazilian transportation system. The energy use growth and external cost generation in this essential economic sector are considerable, and the trend is towards an increasing problem in th...
6 December 2019
To sustain in today’s ever-changing and competitive landscape, firms must work within and outside of their organizations’ boundaries. Open innovation (OI) strategies such as external technology acquisition (ETA), and external technology e...
Switching to a new technological path is often a serious economic challenge for companies. Incumbents, in particular, are often led by their organizational routines, traditional technological orientation, and experience, and run the risk of losing co...
The prominence of agglomeration externalities (AEs) and network externalities (NEs) in urban sustainable development has intensified in recent times, with advances in transportation infrastructure and information technology acting as key accelerators...
The diffusion and application of advanced and applicable agricultural technologies serve as critical support for realizing the green transition and promoting high-quality agricultural development. This study constructs a two-dimensional analytical fr...
22 September 2022
Green technological innovation is an important force for high-quality economic development and high-level ecological environment protection. Environmental regulation and market financing are important factors affecting enterprise green technological...
In this study, we bridge an important gap in the literature by comparing the extent to which external technology spillovers, as indicated by foreign direct investment (FDI), and internal technology spillovers, as indicated by university-institute-ind...
In today’s interconnected economy, participation in global value chains (GVCs) has become essential for firms seeking international competitiveness and economic sustainability. This is particularly relevant for emerging economies like Saudi Ara...
Groundwork on cyanobacterial external layers is crucial for an improved understanding of the persistent dominance of cyanobacteria in freshwaters. In this study, the role of two morphotypes of external layers in Microcystis and Nostoc in mass transfe...
Low-carbon technology innovations (LTI) have attracted wide attention due to their effects on reducing carbon emissions, and improving LTI behavior is a kind of beneficial measures on carbon emissions control in enterprise. The current research explo...
The coordinated development of ecological sustainability and high-quality economic growth has long been a central concern for both academia and governments worldwide. With the deepening of economic globalization, economic and trade interactions as we...
The purpose of this research is to empirically reveal the effect of external technology R&D cooperation network diversity (ETRDCND) on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction and energy saving of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Bes...
Urban agglomerations are playing an increasingly important role in regional economic development, and economic externalities are the key factors in the formation and development of urban agglomerations. According to different mechanisms, agglomeratio...
While digitalization offers new opportunities for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), it also introduces the phenomenon of the “digitalization paradox”. This paper develops a theoretical model comprising digitalization, digital te...
Various electricity generation technologies using different primary energy sources are available. Many published studies compare the costs of these technologies. However, most of those studies only consider plant-level costs and do not fully take int...
Socio-technical or strategic approach to renewable energy deployment all suggests that the uptake of renewable energy technology such as solar photovoltaic is as much a social issue as a technical issue. Among social issues, one most direct and immed...
The main aim of the paper is the identification of capital structure determinants, with a special emphasis on investments in the innovativeness of Polish New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs). Poland is a unique country in that it is an emerging market...
This paper reviews the literature on foreign direct investment (FDI), productivity, and technology upgrading, with a focus on macroeconomic and microeconomic models. It compares the performance of various models used to study FDI and its effects on f...
Manufacturing enterprises are confronted with the historic opportunity and challenge of balancing green transformation with economic development to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality. Some advanced companies are increasingly pursuing green develop...
Amid the accelerating global transition toward a low-carbon economy, collaborative innovation within the new energy vehicle industry has emerged as a critical mechanism for advancing green technology diffusion and fostering industrial ecosystem susta...
With the continuous improvement of mining technology and equipment in China’s coal mines, the number of working faces with high-intensity mining is increasing, and the area of surface damage continues to increase compared with previous years. I...
The primary aim of this study was to assess and classify selected EU countries to groups differing in terms of the degree of implementation of innovative energy technologies to alleviate adverse externalities in road transport. This aim was realised...
1 January 2026
As mobile payments gain global prevalence, understanding the factors driving their sustained usage becomes imperative. WeChat Pay, integrated into China’s dominant social platform, provides a distinctive context for examining mobile payment con...
The adoption of improved technologies is widely recognized as key to improving agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study analyzes adoption patterns and intensity of multiple banana technologies in Uganda which have been promoted ove...
A circular economy (CE) is conceptualized under different rounds of materials and energy cycling flows and is a matter of a three-level deployment: inter-enterprise circulation, regional circulation, and social circulation. Regarding them, the aim of...
This article reviews the fundamental theories and reaction mechanisms of photocatalytic technologies with the assistance of electrical field for degrading multi-phase pollutants. Photo(electro)catalysis including photocatalytic oxidation (PCO) and ph...
The realm of immersive sound technologies in modern industries is evolving every day. Two-channel recordings using personalized HRIRs or BRIRs, which are tailored to the unique anatomical features of individual listeners, significantly enhance the sp...
5 May 2022
Open Innovation (OI) models have been studied in many fields. However, the challenges and opportunities of a possible OI paradigm application in external auditing have been under-researched. Recent corporate scandals are currently triggering changes...
Government data governance has become an important institutional mechanism for reducing information frictions, improving data-resource allocation, and supporting firm innovation in the digital economy. However, whether government data governance can...
An extended Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence and Technology (STIRPAT) model, incorporating factors that drive carbon emissions, is built from the regional perspective. A spatial Durbin model is applied to investigate the fact...
Making the financial industry a solider mainstay of the real economy is of great concern for China in the midst of economic reform. For China, leveraging venture capital (VC) to enhance a firm’s technological innovation capability (TIC) is an i...
Previous studies have shown that the influence of deep dynamic pressure on the surrounding rock control of a coal roadway is one of the difficulties in mine roadway support. Based on the investigation of the headgate 11231 in a coal mine, this study...
Purpose: This study systematically reviews research on six emerging technologies in external auditing, Big Data, Blockchain, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Robotic Process Automation (RPA), to clarify what is curre...
Carbon Information Disclosure (CID) has emerged as an essential tool for achieving global sustainable development. While existing literature has extensively examined firm-level and institutional drivers of CID, the impact of supply chain network stru...
The optimization of water management in industrial processes is paramount in diminishing or mitigating, as far as possible, the negative externalities generated by its current use within the linear economy model. This research presents methods for th...
Adoption of diverse weed management practices is viewed as essential for slowing the spread of herbicide-resistant (HR) weeds. Yet, adoption of diverse tactics has remained low, while there has been explosive growth of resistant weeds. This study ana...
Against the global low-carbon transition, China, as one of the world’s major carbon emitters, relies on green finance to drive corporate carbon reduction. However, existing research has paid limited attention to green funds, an important compon...
For the construction of a carbon zero school building, it is necessary to choose a proper technological solution for the external wall in the early stages of the design process. At the same time, the material to be used for the insulation layer must...
Amid the increasingly stringent technological blockade imposed by some Western developed countries, and against the backdrop of rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging Industry 5.0 paradigms, enhancing indigenous innovation capabi...
Given the potential of digital technologies in value-adding and decision support in infrastructure projects, the promotion of digital technologies, how factors of government promotion, technological development, and the organization’s technolog...
Although there are different theories about the adoption and implementation of technological innovation by companies, they have an organization/individual-centered approach. The aim of this study is to propose the Technology–Organization–...
Using 1135 customer–supplier–year observations involving Chinese A-share listed firms and their major suppliers from 2011 to 2023, together with prefecture-level government work reports and patent-assignment records, we examine whether en...
Based on the two knowledge dimensions of availability and accessibility, this study investigates the influence of cooperation with external organizations on technological, product, and process innovations. Using longitudinal data from Spanish manufac...
This article provides an overview of gas turbine blade tip external cooling technologies. It is not the intention to comprehensively review all the publications from past to present. Instead, selected reports, which represent the most recent progress...
The concept of Industry 5.0 provides a human-centered, sustainable, and resilient manufacturing system with a high emphasis on green technologies. This paper will examine the current use and perception of the green and digital technologies in the int...
In accordance with ISA 240, it is the responsibility of external auditors to obtain reasonable assurance that financial statements are free from material misstatement, whether caused by fraud or error. Recently, the auditing profession in Malaysia ha...
Due to the severe irrigational water scarcity and ever-growing contamination of existing water resources, the potential of improved and innovative irrigation technology has emerged. The risk-taking network may play an essential role in the adoption o...
Corporate alliances have become an important way for firms to share the resources and costs of innovation. However, whether corporate technology alliances can effectively enhance the ambidextrous green innovation (AGI) capabilities of firms is a ques...
The structural integrity of poultry eggs is essential for food safety, economic value, and hatchability. External eggshell quality—measured by thickness, strength, cracks, color, and cleanliness—is a key criterion for grading and sorting....
The use of 3D scanning technologies for surface scanning of objects is limited by environmental conditions and technology requirements based on their characteristics. Among the emerging fields is technical diagnostics in areas of hard-to-reach places...
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