This paper is concerned with the issues surrounding technology diffusion, specifically that of More Sustainable Technologies (MST’s), the barriers which they face, and how new business models might be able to overcome these challenges. The distinctive features of MST’s are described and their associated challenges outlined. Entrepreneurs are identified as being essential to their successful com...

<b>Background:</b> Employing a knowledge broker (KB) is one way to transform ideas into action, especially in relation the development of specialized hospital. This study aimed explore concept brokering intervention specialize hospital Indonesia.<br /> <b>Methods:</b> A descriptive qualitative method was applied this collect detailed, rich data from small number pa...

BACKGROUND Developing a healthcare delivery system that is more responsive to the future challenges of an aging population is a priority in Canada. The World Health Organization acknowledges the need for knowledge translation frameworks in aging and health. Knowledge brokering (KB) is a specific knowledge translation approach that includes making connections between people to facilitate the use...

We address supporting unanticipated users and uses of limited information resources (sensors, databases, weapons any resource intrinsically tied to digital information) in a timely and efficient fashion. Platform-centric systems often preclude users and uses not identified when the system was developed and deployed. Net-centric approaches, however, can address these problems by allowing service...

The rapid evolution of the Internet and its business tools is enabling the transformation and deployment of business processes as highly modular e-services that can be flexibly and dynamically composed to form ad-hoc workflow. This research prepares for the proliferation of automated, Internet-based workflow, by contributing a suite of protocols for self-organizing brokering communities that en...

Many young people in migrant families perform language-brokering tasks for their parents to help them overcome everyday challenges of communicating a new language. Such informal brokering is typically the result younger being more exposed to, and becoming familiar with, dominant language country. This article argues that such has digital equivalent setting, which transnational family communicat...

In this demonstration we present an approach to engineering service brokering requirements and capabilities using the concepts of Service Modes. The demonstration illustrates building service modes in UML2 with Rational Software Modeller, transforming modes in WSEngineer and generating artefacts for runtime service brokering. 1 The Service Modes Approach A mode, in the context of service engine...