Institutional Repository ecosystem in Japan, IRDB and JAIRO Cloud

Poster at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

How to take advantage of ORCID in institutional repositories

Workshop at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

What’s in it for me? Incentivizing the use of institutional repositories

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Hands-On: Interlinking Institutional Repositories and Europe PubMed Central

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

The Invisible Institutional Repository: Missing a Trick (and Missing Fulltext)?

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Extending the Hydra Head to Create a Pluggable, Extensible Architecture: Diving into the Technology of Hydramata

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Building the ‘Digital’ Library: Routes to Managing our Institutional Digital Learning, Teaching and Research Assets Together

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

The Purdue University Research Repository (PURR): An institutional data management service with a virtual research environment, data publication, and archiving

Poster at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

University Institutional Repository and its Place in the University Information Infrastructure

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Handshake ecosystem for Educational Contents between Institutional Repository and OER based Repository

Poster at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Developing sustainable research data management services: an institutional collaboration

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Practical Data Curation and Management for Institutional Repositories

Workshop at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Marketing of fire suppression systems: customer value and institutional aspects

The paper studied marketing of automatic fire suppression systems from the perspectives of customer value and institutions. The object of the study was research the special features of the sales and marketing of fire suppression systems, and find some practical applications for sales, and for lobbying of a new fire suppression technology. The theoretical background of the study was in the customer value literature and the theoretical concept of institutional entrepreneurship. The research was conducted as an electronic survey for three different groups of respondents; end customers, solution integrators, and re-sellers. From the answers was gathered generalisations about the customer value assessment and communication of the value related to the sales and marketing processes of the fire suppression systems. In addition, there was observed manners to receive information about the systems, and effects caused by institutions to the decision making of the different parties involved. The findings of the study support companies that are launching a new safety technology to the market focus their marketing, and help to understand institutional forces that are affecting to a safety related product.

The impact of industrial context and institutional factors on innovation and internationalization of Russian companies

Innovation and internationalization nowadays play significant role in formation of the competitive advantage for the companies and it is important to explore these processes deeply and use their potential. Such parameters, as industrial context and institutional factors, are essential parts of the business life and their influence may be crucial for the company’s performance. The Master’s Thesis explores impact of industrial context and institutional factors on innovation and internationalization of Russian companies. This research is quantitative and based on the analysis of the relevant scientific literature and results of the survey, conducted among Russian manufacturing companies. Findings show positive influence of industrial context factor “international threat” and institutional environment factor “lack of resources and the market imperfections” on internationalization of innovative Russian companies.