The concept of qualitative velocity, together with qualitative distance and orientation, are very important in order to represent spatial reasoning for moving objects, such as robots. We consider the propositional dynamic logic which deals with qualitative velocity and enables us to represent some reasoning tasks about qualitative properties. The use of logic provides a general framework which ...

Knowledge is now recognized as the key differentiating resource among firms. The ability to integrate widely held knowledge to derive new products and services constitutes a meta-capability from which streams new and of innovative capabilities continually emerge. This paper reports on an on-going study that empirically operationalizes new measures, and tests and validates a model of team-level ...

The adoption of smart specialisation involves a challenging set of novelties in the way innovation strategies are designed. One of these novelties concerns the ‘outward orientation’ of the innovation strategies. In the world of open innovation and global value chains no serious innovation policy can be effective without the ability to connect local knowledge assets with knowledge existing ‘else...

Sensors such as video surveillance and weather monitoring systems record a significant amount of dynamic data which are represented by vector fields. We present a novel algorithm to measure the similarity of vector fields using global distributions that capture both vector field properties (e.g., vector orientation) and relational geometric information (e.g., the relative positions of two vecto...

Relational particle dynamics include the dynamics of pure shape and cases in which absolute scale or absolute rotation are additionally meaningful. These are interesting as regards the absolute versus relative motion debate as well as discussion of conceptual issues connected with the problem of time in quantum gravity. In spatial dimension 1 and 2 the relative configuration spaces of shapes ar...

Previous empirical studies confirm that intellectual capital has a significant and substantive impact on performance. The purpose of this research is to examine the inter-relationships and interactions among intellectual capital components and business performance in the Portuguese banking industry. The concept of relational capital was extended to include ‘stakeholder orientation’ items. Model...

Internal marketing has been applied to organizational employees to foster their shared understanding. This study proposes a multilevel model to depict the causal relationships of market orientation behavior (MOB) with internal marketing, knowledge integration, relationship quality, relational bond (RB), and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). A total of 471 valid responses from employees...