Will Communication of Job Creation Facilitate Diffusion of Innovations in the Automobile Industry?

The electrification and automation of vehicles are two upcoming trends in the automobile industry. However, these two new technologies also raise public concerns related to road safety, range, and, most crucially, job creation in the automotive and transportation industries. This study investigates if job creation facilitates the diffusion of innovation. Analysis of 32,006 tweets from 33 global automobile manufacturers and their international job creation records revealed that communication of job creation can improve stakeholders’ adverse social media engagement on vehicle electrification and automation, the latest innovations in transportation and logistics. Car manufacturers should continually communicate their job creation achievements to gain public acceptance when introducing innovations, which may improve the diffusion of innovations.

Critical reflection on critical thinking and TEM tests of English major students’ performance

Critical thinking is now called for modern age of educational management, due to education can prepare children and citizen to face with uncertainty of changing world. Complexity of modern world is adapting with a ton of knowledge and millions of situations that shape our children to face with uncertainty. The article aims to critical reflection on critical thinking and TEM tests of English major students’ performance. Skills-based learning in terms of English for minority group is important for quality of education. Educators could not ignore the phenomenon that students lack of critical thinking through various sources of learning and testing. The point of reflection needs to cultivate students’ abilities in independent thinking, innovation, analysis and critical awareness in order to achieve a better goal in language teaching.

Determinants of Sustainable Open Innovations—A Firm-Level Capacity Analysis

Institutional constraints impede firms’ open innovation. They have been a challenge, obstructing growth and sustainable development. Research on open innovation has shown that the quality of institutions essentially affects innovation in firms. Hence, prior research has made efforts to incorporate the quality of institutions into open innovation analysis. We can use a series of analyses to examine the impact of corruption, the tax system, and other indicators on firm innovation performance. However, developing economies, such as countries in sub-Saharan Africa, represent a specific group of countries that have long been perceived as those mostly deficient in the rule of law, with poor regulatory quality and a great deal of corruption. In these countries, it is also possible to see a lower number of studies, as the inability to obtain quality data to perform empirical analyses can often limit researchers. Nevertheless, employing data from the World Bank’s 2019 Enterprise Survey, this research aimed at exploring the determinants of sustainable open innovation as well as the effect of institutional quality on firms’ capacity utilization and process innovation through a PLS structural equation model analysis. Our research showed interesting findings, such as the fact that the quality of institutions significantly affects firms’ use of OI instruments and capacity utilization. This research also provides for the novelty of the analysis of capacity utilization in an open innovation analysis. The results support the hypotheses that low institutional quality negatively affects firms’ implementation of inbound open innovation instruments, and that there is a strong and positive effect of low institutional quality on firms’ capacity utilization. In addition, we confirm the premise that firms’ implementation of inbound open innovation instruments has a positive and significant influence on firms’ process innovation.

Economic effectiveness of enterprise’s innovative development (on the example OF JSC “Ust-kamenogorsk valves plant”).

Innovative processes, as well as scientific and technological progress, provide an opportunity to constantly update production based on mastering the achievements of science and technology. Innovation is an important means of achieving the goals of developing a strategy for economic agents that have a positive effect on improving the effectiveness of a company.Anecessary factor for economic growth and competitiveness of the Kazakhstani economy is to solve the problem of organizing innovations, focusing on innovative needs, as well as the creation of stimulating development of innovative processes of organizational and economic conditions and the development of theoretical and practical provisions in order to assess the economic impact of research and development on it. In this context, the aim of the study is to consider ways to improve the economic performance of enterprises through innovation. To achieve this goal, an analysis of the literature in the field of innovation, analysis of regulations, as well as interpretive research methods, such as sociological and empirical methods, were used. Also, a financial analysis of the activities of Ust-Kamenogorsk Valves Plant JSC was carried out, which made it possible to characterize the financial condition of the company. The company was found to have managed its funds responsibly during the period under review. Two innovative portfolios were evaluated, which made it possible to determine the profitability of certain projects. It is concluded that the state innovation policy in the Republic of Kazakhstan is predominantly of an organizational and regulatory nature, there are few financial and resource measures and tax support for innovations from the state.