Browsing by Author "Chen, Shih-Hsin"

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Analyzing determinants for promoting emerging technology through intermediaries by using a DANP-based MCDA framework
(2018-06-01)
Chen, Shih-Hsin
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Lin, Wei-Ting
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教育研究所
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科技管理研究所
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Institute of Education
Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) has been widely considered a useful tool for evaluating decision making. Several derivatives of MCDA, including AHP, ANP, DANP, have been implemented in previous studies to construct real-world applications. However, literature combining a systematic introduction on methodological developments of MCDA with an empirical implementation in promoting technology through intermediaries is still rare. To fill in this gap, this paper begins with introducing the methodological development of MCDA to set out an analytical framework, namely DANP for the empirical analysis. Consequently, this paper applied DANP to analyze multiple determinants and five dimensions that we summarized from existing literature to find out the key determinants and the interdependent relationship for promoting the emerging sector through institutional intermediaries. While conducting empirical implementation, 33 experts from major intermediaries involved in promoting the biotechnology sector were visited. 7 out of 33 of these experts were further visited for interview to verify our analysis. Based on our MCDA analysis, we found that government policies and regulations are the most influential determinates while promoting emerging sectors through intermediaries. This paper contributes to the literature in several ways including highlighting methodological improvements of DANP, improving approaches on empirical data collection, and implementing an empirical MCDA analysis by applying an influential network relation map (INRM) to construct useful policy suggestions for real-world applications.
Brokering knowledge in networks: institutional intermediaries in the Taiwanese biopharmaceutical innovation system
(2015-01-01)
Chen, Shih-Hsin
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Egbetokun, Abiodun A.
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Chen, Duen-Kai
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科技管理研究所
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Institute of Management of Technology
The literature maintains that in the development models of the Asian tigers in the 1980s, policy-induced intermediaries played the key mediating roles in acquiring technology from abroad to enhance local capabilities. In this paper, we examined how the intermediaries fare in terms of their expected brokerage roles in the context of the Taiwanese biopharmaceutical sector. By applying social network methods to data on this specific sub-sector, we demonstrate that the intermediary organisations under-performed in terms of brokering the transfer and diffusion of foreign technologies. Two factors underlie this result: intermediaries need to possess sufficient capabilities to be able to drive the strategy of stimulating a science-intensive sector through foreign technology, and intermediaries alone are not sufficient for the success of this strategy. We conclude that, instead of heavily relying on intermediaries to act as brokers, enabling research organisations and firms to play more effective brokerage roles may be a more successful strategy to develop a science-intensive sector such as biopharmaceuticals.
Development of a Multisite, Closed-loop Neuromodulator for the Theranosis of Neural Degenerative Diseases
(2018-01-01)
Chen, Hsin
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Chang, Yen-Chung
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Yeh, Shih-Rung
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Hsieh, Chih-Cheng
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Tang, Kea-Tiong
Stimulating specific brain regions has been found useful for treating neural disorders, such as the Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, depression, etc. However, how electrical stimulation modulates neural activities remains not fully understood. As animal models provide the advantage of recording and stimulating different disease-related regions simultaneously, this paper introduces the latest development of a multisite, closed-loop-controlled microsystem for investigating novel treatments on neural degenerative diseases with freely-moving rats. The algorithms for recognizing pathological neural activities automatically are also developed and realized in hardware, so as to control the stimulation in a closed loop and in real time. The pilot studies on the efficacy of treating the Parkinson's disease with closed-loop-controlled stimulation will be presented and discussed. Finally, the feasibility of modelling and probing how neural dynamics and connectivity are modulated by stimulation will be an important topic for future research.
On mathematical analysis of synchronization to bidirectionally coupled Kuramoto oscillators
(2020-12-01)
Chen, Shih-Hsin
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Hsia, Chun-Hsiung
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Shiue, Ming-Cheng
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應用數學系
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Department of Applied Mathematics
This article is concerned about the synchronization problem of the bidirectionally coupled Kuramoto model. In this model, each oscillator only interacts with the oscillators with adjacent labeling numbers. Namely, the oscillator theta(i) only interacts with theta(i+1) and theta(i-1). In real applications, this is a typical setting of concatenation connection. We first prove the global convergence of frequency synchronization for the identical oscillators. Also, we present two results of phase synchronization for the identical case in relatively wide initial configuration regimes. In the case that the coupling strength is sufficiently large (equivalent to the difference of the natural frequencies is sufficiently small), we show that for non-identical oscillators within a suitable initial configuration regime, the bidirectionally coupled Kuramoto model achieves a frequency synchronization. The supportive numerical simulations are presented as well. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Social Innovation for Sustainability: The Case of Oil Producing Communities in the Niger Delta region
(2019-12-01)
Omobhude, Christian
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Chen, Shih-Hsin
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科技管理研究所
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Institute of Management of Technology
This study demonstrates how social innovation may engender development as well as peace in deep-rooted poverty and conflict regions in the Niger Delta context. By means of a qualitative study involving oil producing communities in the Niger Delta, this study identifies the dynamics, relevant actors and factors that foster social innovation, creating particular socio-economic outcomes, and contributes to the role of institutions in this context. Our findings suggest that active stakeholders' engagement, facilitation and contributions from key actors significantly influences the quality of economic and social outcomes, but not necessarily environmental outcomes. This allows us to advance the theory on social innovation by analyzing the mechanisms through which social intervention processes may alter the lives of ordinary community members in areas where social and economic interventions are seriously required.
The Confluence of Academia and Industry: A Case Study of the Taiwanese Biopharmaceutical Innovation System
(2014-09-01)
Chen, Shih-Hsin
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科技管理研究所
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Institute of Management of Technology
This study challenges existing literature which maintains that technology latecomers usually depend on imported technologies to develop emerging high-tech sectors. This paper argues that the domestic institutional environment in facilitating networking might be more important for developing academia-industry (A-I) networks. The co-evolution of institutions and the knowledge transfer process in the Taiwanese Biopharmaceutical Innovation System (TBPIS) is a case in point. Far from relying purely on foreign technologies, several important institutional and policy changes, which transform the institutional environment from prohibiting A-I intertwining into encouraging A-I collaborations, have enabled domestic research institutes to influence the acquisition, creation, and diffusion of knowledge in the innovation network. Nonetheless, the country continues to struggle in commercializing domestic scientific research to step into a knowledge-based economy. Therefore, this paper suggests that more productive strategies would be helpful to advance domestic academic research, sustain A-I networks, and strengthen the innovation system.
The dynamic role of universities in developing an emerging sector: a case study of the biotechnology sector
(2017-10-01)
Chen, Shih-Hsin
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Lin, Wei-Ting
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教育研究所
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科技管理研究所
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Institute of Education
Literature maintains that the role of universities has shifted from pure knowledge dissemination organisations into the key intermediaries of technology commercialisation, especially in the case of the developing emerging high-tech sector (Etzkowitz, Webster, Gebhardt, & Terra, 2000; Vallas & Kleinman, 2008). To further explore the dynamic role of the universities interacting with the other actors in the innovation system, this paper examines the changing roles of the universities that have actively interacted with the biotechnology industry in Taiwan from 2000 to 2012. Combining social network analysis and interview data on a longitudinal dataset gathered from 125 IPO biotechnology firms, this paper aims to explore the R&D collaboration networks between the universities and the other actors in the biotechnology sectoral innovation system to understand how universities make use of knowledge exchanged with other parties to shape society while developing emerging industries. The involvement rate of academia in the knowledge transfer networks appears to have increased since 2000 but more can be done to spur scalable action after 2008, and therefore association with other similar evolving areas. Moreover, the participation of foreign collaboration is one which needs some attention. The finding of this paper sheds light on the changing role of academia in developing emerging technologies in technology followers, while the innovation ecosystem is ready for academia-industry collaboration, universities not only take charge of disseminating knowledge but also serve as the major intermediaries in the process of commercialising science and technologies developed through the universities. Future policies may need to boost more partaking between the universities and industries by motivating the transmission of knowledge capital through encouraging technology commercialisation in academia. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
The Roles and Measurements of Proximity in Sustained Technology Development: A Literature Review
(2019-01-01)
Omobhude, Christian
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Chen, Shih-Hsin
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科技管理研究所
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Institute of Management of Technology
In existing studies, sustainable technology development involves harnessing knowledge assets to improve technological development and innovation to create competitive advantage for a firm. In recent decades, there has been a huge amount of scholarly articles on how technology development and innovation sustain competitive advantage. However, until recently most research focused on the spatial component of innovation and its influence on sustained technology development. Many studies have used proximity to examine spatial and relational mechanisms that lead to knowledge spillover and sustainable technology development. Reviewing 123 scholarly articles relating to proximity of innovation (1980-2018), this paper attempts to explore both spatial and non-spatial factors that influence sustainable technology and innovation development including geographic, cognitive, organizational, social, and institutional proximity. The review showed that each proximity dimension has relative importance and can be peculiar. For example, geographical proximity highlights the role of location and relative distance range in determining knowledge spillovers, especially relevant for face-to-face interaction and conditions that require certain types of complex tacit knowledge. This paper makes important contributions to our understanding of spatial and non-spatial proximity factors associated with sustainable technology development. The review showed that interpersonal factors are important for knowledge transfer to take place as knowledge does not depend entirely on location. The findings show that commonly used approaches to measure proximities include patent data and nomenclature of territorial units for statistics, not widely accessible across contexts, which impacts research and development (R&D) policy development. Cognitive, social, and institutional dimensions are important for knowledge transfer, supported by interplay of other proximities that determine and influence sustained technology development. In addition, management of proximity influences how knowledge assets are used for innovation and sustained technology development.
University Incubation System for Research Commercialisation: The Case of Taiwan and Malaysia
(2019-11-01)
Ng, Boon-Kwee
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Chen, Shih-Hsin
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Wong, Chan-Yuan
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Chandran, Vgr
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科技管理研究所
This article examines the performance of university research commercialisation in Taiwan and Malaysia and specifically discusses the role of incubation intermediaries. Through case study and patent analysis, this article draws lessons from Taiwan and further discusses the mechanisms in place for the successful commercialisation of university research. Lessons from the case offer insights for Malaysia on how university incubation intermediaries can be reorganised to promote better commercialisation outcomes. The Taiwanese experience illustrates that in the right institutional settings-and particularly with the presence of innovative science and technology parks-university incubators tend to promote favourable commercialisation outcomes. More importantly, the ability of university incubators to source for external knowledge and risk capital support positions them to be more effective as intermediaries. Other key success factors include establishing an adequate intellectual property management system and having adequate human resources equipped with intellectual property knowledge. This article further deliberates policy implications.