Disruption in the automotive industry: A Cambrian moment

The automotive industry is experiencing a moment of innovation. With electronics gaining importance, the need to find sustainable solutions and the rampant availability of sharing platforms, the dynamics of this sector is witnessing a paradigm shift. A host of startups is colonizing every niche of what seems to be the new architecture: shared and self-driven electric vehicles. Old incumbents and emerging startups are interacting to control key technologies and the user interfaces of the future. The mechanical machine is being converted into a computer. The connected car is creating a new ecosystem for entrepreneurial opportunities. This study analyzes a set of 156 venture-backed startups: the nature of the firms, their founders’ profiles, their origins, their technological capabilities, and their investors. Our findings and conclusions are: (1) a phase of instability and vibrancy is beginning wherein multiple emerging firms compete to impose their standards, (2) the competitive battle is conducted in the digital arena, (3) disruption is led by outsiders with entrepreneurial experience and deep knowledge of digital technologies, and (4) a final winning dominant design may emerge. Entrepreneurial outsiders and outsiders coming from consumer electronics, electrical companies, and/or digital platforms have a window of opportunity to enter this new market.     

Orchestrating a creative learning environment: Design and scenario work as a coaching experience - How educational science and psychology can help design and scenario work & vice-versa

This article considers design and scenario work as a team-coaching experience. It presents the componential theory of learning in coaching and the underlying componential model of creative learning, highlighting some ideas and showing some possibilities of using them for creating and implementing a creative learning environment necessary for the success of both design and scenario work. The benefits of other methods and tools of educational science and psychology are also briefly described. Finally, possibilities arising from the new as well as the usual perspectives on design and scenario work for educational science and psychology – more precisely, coaching and creativity research – are dealt with. In the last section of the article, general principles used are highlighted and summarized. Some connections to fundamental questions of the role of sciences, arts, theory and practice as well as of the location of design and scenario work are discussed. Thereby, a possible solution to the related controversy is initially proposed. Overall, this article shows some of the areas in which educational science and psychology, on the one side, and design and scenario work, on the other, can be of mutual benefit. It aims to initiate further discussions about connections among the mentioned fields, and seeks to suggest some possibilities for interdisciplinary research and utilization of its results.     

关于教学改革与培养学生创新能力的几点看法

培养学生的创新能力,是当前教学改革的核心问题。要从培养创新能力的要求,理顺知识结构;转变观念,把创新能力培养作为核心;深化教学改革等几个方面来进行。能力的培养,是一个系统工程,要营造一个良好的"软、硬件"环境,才能有利于学生创新能力的培养。     

海峡西岸经济区创意产业发展构想

简要阐述了创意产业的内涵,指出发展创意产业对福建建设海峡西岸经济区、调整优化产业结构、转变经济增长方式、提高区域综合竞争力具有十分重要的意义。对海西创意产业发展进行战略构想：一是从时间纬度构想,适时择机地发展海西创意产业;二是从空间纬度构想,以中心城市为依托发展海西创意产业;三是从产业纬度构想,以打造创意产业链和集群为主发展海西创意产业。     

The Flamenco Factor in Destination Marketing: Interdependencies of Creative Industries and Tourism —the Case of Seville

This study builds on the concepts developed by Florida in his work “The Rise of the Creative Class”. In doing so it seeks evidence for the claims made that the creative arts address deficiencies identified in the terminology of ‘cultural tourism’. The case relates to flamenco performances in Seville. The art complex of flamenco survived on the one hand as a symbol of Andalusian culture on the other hand it depends strongly on the international tourism market. Additionally flamenco is used in destination marketing to differentiate Seville from other Spanish cities.     

The impact of creative media advertising on consumer responses: two field experiments

Abstract

Creative media (CM) advertising is an advertising strategy wherein a non-traditional medium is creatively used for advertising purposes. This novel advertising strategy is gaining marketers’ interest; however, little is known about its persuasive effects on consumers’ cognitive, affective and behavioural responses and the processes that underlie them. Therefore, to convey a genuine experience to consumers, two field experiments with a one-factor (advertising type: creative vs. traditional) between-subjects design were conducted within a supermarket context. Results showed that creative (vs. traditional) media ads not only improve consumers’ affective and behavioural responses but also consumers’ cognitive responses. Even though no mediations were found through perceived surprise or perceived persuasive intent, results do provide evidence for the notion that perceived humor and perceived value are the underlying mechanisms through which affective and behavioural responses to creative media advertising can be explained.     

Freedom,barriers to entry,entrepreneurship, and economic progress

While entrepreneurs benefit from unrestricted free entry into markets, they have a time-inconsistent incentive to lobby for government entry restrictions once they become successful. Bad political institutions yield to these demands, and growing barriers are placed on domestic and international competition. Good institutions do not, and this effort is instead channeled toward further wealth creation. We find that productive entrepreneurship depends on both the freedom to succeed and discipline of failure that free markets provide. Trade barriers result in fewer combinations of goods and inputs attempted, and less productive entrepreneurial resource use. We also provide evidence on the value of business failure.

学习目标导向对员工创新的影响：基于元分析的心理与行为机制

学习目标导向会对员工心理和行为产生影响进而影响员工创新,有必要厘清其作用机制和边界条件。整合社会认知理论与知识管理理论,运用元分析结构方程模型,定量化综合检验关于学习目标导向与员工创新关系的84份实证研究文献。结果显示：学习目标导向与员工创新显著正相关,团队层面的正向影响比员工个体层面更强;创新自我效能感、知识共享在学习目标导向与员工创新之间存在链式中介作用,即创新自我效能感通过激发知识共享促进员工创新;员工特征、企业特征、文化背景等情境因素,以及测量工具、测量方法等测量因素,均显著影响学习目标导向与员工创新之间的关系。     

创意产业价值创造机理及空间发展初探

基于对创意产业价值曲线的剖析,并运用拆分———组合的方法在四个范畴内挖掘创意产业的价值增值机制,并将成果用于探究产业的空间发展是可行的。由此得到创意产业的空间发展与其价值机制相辅相成,密不可分,好的创意环境、富集的创意资本加上创意整合是机制有效的基础条件,而透析创意产业的价值创造机理,有助于解释和解决该产业的空间发展问题。     

中日韩文化创意产品贸易竞争关系的实证分析

中日韩三国在内部市场和国际市场上的创意产品贸易竞争性较强,这对于扩大中国创意产品出口有借鉴意义。