Human facial expressions play an important role in interpersonal relations. This is because humans demonstrate and convey a lot of evident information visually rather than verbally. Although humans recognize facial expressions virtually without effort or delay, reliable expression recognition by machine remains a challenge as of today. To automate recognition of emotional state, machines must b...

The geography of innovation is built upon an agglomeration of economies and “innovation hearths”, (Crevosier, 2004). Innovative success of a firm is often indicated by their creativity, access to alliances, and usage of access to local resources. Few metrics have been able to give adequate rise to a definition for Innovation as a means of measuring entrepreneurial and innovative success in comb...