Gentrification & Crime: New Configurations and Challenges for the City

This volume is the editorial product of the project “Gentrification and Crime. New Configurations and Challenges for the City” started by a public conference held on May 6, 2019 at the Municipal Historical Archive of Palermo. This event was organized by Locus and endorsed by private and public bodies. During the conference, four presentations...

Growth Strategies for New Technology-Based Firms: Selecting Growth Strategies by Combining The Resource-Based View, Transaction Cost Economics and Contingency

Over the past few decades, new technology-based firms (NTBFs) have been considered an important engine of economic development. Consequently, a better understanding of the characteristics and attributes of these firms has become a primary goal for researchers and policy makers. While numerous studies found evidence of the relation between growth...

A new approach to simplify surgical colpotomy in laparoscopic hysterectomy

New surgical techniques and technology have simplified laparoscopic hysterectomy and have enhanced the safety of this procedure. However, the surgical colpotomy step has not been addressed. This study evaluates the surgical colpotomy step in laparoscopic hysterectomy with respect to difficulty and duration. Furthermore, it proposes an...

Technology-Inspired Design: A conceptual model for Strategic Design Professionals to design for Disruptive Innovation

The objective of this thesis is to find an approach on how strategic design professionals can utilize their design capabilities to help companies cope with these challenges. Building on the fact that companies are painstakingly developing new-to-the-world technological innovations brokering this newness to find other possible applications and...

A framework of technology-supported emotion measurement

Emotion measurement is a vital aspect for new product development and product improvements (see e.g. P. Desmet & Schifferstein, 2012). Nowadays, new technological devices, data mining, and social media offer many opportunities to invigorate design research. This paper tries to combine both aspects by exploring the question, how new...

Improving Evaluation Practices at Universiy Technology Incubators

University technology-based incubators (UTBIs) have an important role in the development of new technology-based firms [NTBFs]. By providing a favourable environment for these companies it significantly reduces firm failure. In order to maximize the attainment of the incubator goal, UTBIs expect tenants to grow within a particular time. It,...

Predicting structural disasters with radar interferometry

Radar interferometry is a technique which can observe the earth’s surface during day and night time. It makes uses of thousands of pulses per second that are transmitted by satellites and reflected by the surface of, for instance, structures. By analyzing the data it is possible to measure displacements of the surface within millimeter precision...

Application sharing services design and performance

Digital information is becoming increasingly integrated in our daily life. We can communicate with each other via e-mail and exchange documents, photographs and video fragments and use webcams during a telephone call ("nice for the kids"). Digital information is used in education to communicate with other students and teachers and it is used for...