Author: VPInstitute
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Network analysis to support public health: evolution of collaboration among leishmaniasis researchers (full-text)
Databases on scientific publications are a well-known source for complex network analysis. The present work focuses on tracking evolution of collaboration amongst researchers on leishmaniasis, a neglected disease associated with poverty and very common in Brazil, India and many other countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Using SCOPUS and PubMed databases we have identified…
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A measure of staying power: Is the persistence of emergent concepts more significantly influenced by technical domain or scale? (full-text)
This study advances a four-part indicator for technical emergence. While doing so it focuses on a particular class of emergent concepts—those which display the ability to repeatedly maintain an emergent status over multiple time periods. The authors refer to this quality as staying power and argue that those concepts which maintain this ability are deserving…
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Effects of innovation management system standardization on firms: evidence from text mining annual reports
Using a management formula to standardize innovation management can be thought of as deeply contradictory, however, several successful firms in Spain have been certified under the pioneer innovation management standard UNE 166002. This paper analyzes the effects that standardization has in the attitudes and values as regard to innovation for a sample of firms by…