Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) is a premier institute of science and technology established in 2008. IITH has been consistently ranked in the&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/reports/" rel="noopener noreferrer">top 10 institutes</a>&nbsp;in India for Engineering&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nirfindia.org/2021/EngineeringRanking.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">according to NIRF</a>&nbsp;making it one of the most coveted schools for science and technology in the country.

IITH offers&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/academics/under-graduate/">undergraduate programs</a>&nbsp;in all the classical engineering disciplines, applied sciences, design, as well as several modern interdisciplinary areas. Students are given a flexibility to explore a broad set of areas, and potentially pursue a minor or double major in a discipline that is not their own. Students who wish to seek a deeper understanding of their own discipline are strongly encouraged to get involved in cutting-edge research with the help of a faculty to mentor them, and earn an Honors in their own field.

The very foundation of IIT Hyderabad is based on&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/research/">research and innovation</a>. The vibrant research culture is evident from the number of patents and publications that IITH produces consistently every year. IITH offers&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/academics/programmes-offered/">graduate programs</a>&nbsp;at both a masters, and a doctoral level, in several diverse areas. There are separate programs for technology, design, science, and liberal arts. The&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/academics/post-graduate/">MTech program</a>&nbsp;is offered in various modes and durations to cater to the ever-growing need of postgraduate level professionals in the country.

IITH encourages and supports&nbsp;<a href="https://iic-iith.netlify.app/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">innovation and entrepreneurship</a>&nbsp;at every stage. The minor program in entrepreneurship is open to all students of IITH, and many of the courses are offered by industrialists who are entrepreneurs themselves. There are various&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/research/centres-incubators/">innovation centers and incubators</a>&nbsp;that promote entrepreneurship and help mentor young innovators. IITH has been very successful in building tie-ups with leading academic institutions around the globe.

IITH enjoys a very special relationship with Japanese universities and industries that goes beyond academic and research collaborations. In fact, some of the iconic buildings in IITH campus will carry the signature of Japanese architecture.

IITH creates a unique holistic ecosystem for education that offers interactive learning, a very flexible academic structure, cutting-edge research, strong industry collaboration, and entrepreneurship. This is an environment which enables students and faculty to translate their dreams into realities.

IIT Hyderabad

Department of Entrepreneurship and Management

Innovation in technology in the last few decades has revolutionized society's ability to solve problems. Answering the call for innovation and management, the concept of appropriate technology is discussed. Appropriate Technology is a small-scaled technology developed by community to cater their needs. The study explores the conceptualization of Appropriate Technology in the era of innovation based on empirical data from a field survey. This study attempts to redefine and relook the tenets of appropriate technology and finding out the factors of appropriateness by analyzing empirical data. The field survey is conducted through close-ended questionnaire and face-to-face interview of 193 people from NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations), Government. Officials and students of a technical institution from a state of India. The findings of the study presented three factors of appropriateness namely designing for socio-environment sustainability, localizing design to cost solutions and exploring the market potential, which highlights the importance of positioning appropriate technology and exploiting its perspective to build it a mainstream discipline in technology management and studies. © 2018 IEEE.

World University root node

IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

Appropriate Technology and Management for Sustainability

The choice of interaction after the international joint venture (IJV) termination is influenced by different factors in varying levels that can be hierarchically depicted. On IJV termination, parent firms are deprived of value created during IJV. Parent firms can attempt to create a whole or part of the value created during IJV through an interaction post IJV termination. This study attempts to identify factors that influence the choice of interaction post IJV termination and categorize them hierarchically based on their magnitude of influence. This study examines the factors that influence the decision to interact post IJV termination by developing a total interpretive structural model (TISM) using data collected from managers of terminated IJV in Africa. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Strategic Change

Factors affecting the choice of interaction after the international joint venture termination in Africa: Total interpretive structural modeling

Minimising total production time in the additive or layered manufacturing is a critical concern, and in this respect, the idea of balancing assembly time and build time is rapidly gaining research attention. The proposed work intends to provide benefit in terms of reduced lead time to customers in a collaborative environment with simultaneous part printing. This paper formulates a mixed-integer non-linear programming (MINLP) model to evaluate the near optimal threshold area and support material allocation while segregating parts for a single material additive manufacturing set-up. The resulting time minimisation model is finitely bounded with respect to support material volume, total production time and total assembly cost constraints. A novel swarm intelligence-based part segregation procedure is proposed to determine the number of part assemblies and part division scheme that adheres to cross-sectional shape, cross-sectional area, and height restrictions. The proposed approach is illustrated and evaluated for objects with regular as well as free-form surfaces using two different hypothetically simulated real size 3D models. Results indicate that the proposed approach is able to reduce the total amount of manufacturing time in comparison with single part build time for all the tested cases. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Part segregation based on particle swarm optimisation for assembly design in additive manufacturing

Bowing to the burgeoning needs of online consumers, exploitation of social media content for extrapolating buyer-centric information is gaining increasing attention of researchers and practitioners from service science, data analytics, machine learning and associated domains. The current paper aims to identify the structural relationship between product attributes and subsequently prioritise customer preferences with respect to these attributes while exploiting textual social media data derived from fashion blogs in Germany. A Bayesian Network Structure Learning model with the K2score maximisation objective is formulated and solved. A self-tailored metaheuristic approach that combines self-learning particle swarm optimisation (SLPSO) with the K2 algorithm (SLPSOK2) is employed to decipher the highest scored structures. The proposed approach is implemented on small, medium and large size instances consisting of 9 fashion attributes and 18 problem sets. The results obtained by SLPSOK2 are compared with the particle swarm optimisation/K2score, Genetic Algorithm/K2 score and ant colony optimisation/K2 score. Results verify that SLPSOK2 outperforms its hybrid counterparts for the tested cases in terms of computational time and solution quality. Furthermore, the study reveals that psychological satisfaction, historical revival, seasonal information and facts and figure-based reviews are major components of information in fashion blogs that influence the customers. © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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International Journal of Production Research

Optimising online review inspired product attribute classification using the self-learning particle swarm-based Bayesian learning approach

Despite the importance of social cues in service experience environments, little is known about the role of other customer perceptions (OCP) in the formation of passengers’ travel experience (PTE) and loyalty in public transportation. This study examines the impact of OCP on PTE and loyalty in public transportation and also investigates the moderating role of face-consciousness between OCP and PTE. Results revealed that all three dimensions of OCP have a positive effect on PTE, which consequently influences loyalty. More importantly, face-consciousness moderated the relationship between suitable behavior and PTE. Transport managers can benefit from these findings by considering the social environment as they design their services. © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Service Industries Journal

The impact of social cues on passengers’ travel experience [社会暗示对乘客出行体验的影响]

The paper examines the long-run relationship between innovation and economic growth in the European Economic Area (EEA) countries for the period 1989–2014. Using vector auto-regressive model for testing the Granger causalities, the study finds the presence of both unidirectional and bidirectional causality between innovation and economic growth. These results vary from country to country, depending upon the types of innovation indicators that are used in the empirical investigation process. The policy implication of this study is that economic policies should recognise the differences in innovation and economic growth in order to maintain sustainable development in EEA countries. © 2019

IIMB Management Review

Innovation and economic growth in European Economic Area countries: The Granger causality approach

Foreign partner's global marketplace strategy significantly influences the choice of interaction after international joint venture (IJV) termination as supplier–buyer, complement, or competitor between terminated IJV partners. The domestic partner in IJV enables foreign firms to pursue its global marketplace strategy—transnational, multidomestic, global, or international. On IJV termination, foreign partner's perceived value creation from IJV shall be rendered void and is required to either look for a new domestic firm to collaborate or form an interaction after IJV termination with IJV's domestic partner. This study examines the role of foreign firm's global marketplace strategy on the choice of interaction after IJV termination as supplier–buyer, complement, or competitor using data on terminated two partner IJV headquartered in India. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Global marketplace strategy and choice of interaction after termination of international joint venture

Emerging countries continuously strive to attain economic growth using development in technology as a linchpin. Although globalization has engendered the use of technology but some regions in emerging countries struggle with recurring problems of poverty, unemployment, inequality, and fulfilment of basic needs. This variation in landscape calls for the need to revisit technology, whereby ‘Appropriate Technology’ comes into the discussion, being quite pervasive in third world countries and emerging economies. Even after four decades of appropriate technology movement, there is hardly any systematic literature review. The objective of this study is to revisit the extant literature on appropriate technology through a systematic literature review combined with a case study approach. This study contributes to the scant literature available on appropriate technology by synthesizing discussions in both theory and practice. The findings of this study reveal that appropriate technology is yet to be linked with sustainable development and innovation in the context of emerging economies, and also presents the future agenda of the research. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd

Technology in Society

Revisiting appropriate technology with changing socio-technical landscape in emerging countries

This study is an attempt to examine the impact of customers' service experience on their emotions and loyalty in the context of brick-and-mortar retail shopping. It has conceptualized the retail service experience based on the theory of 'Service Experience as Theoretical Drama'(SETD) proposed by Grove, Fisk, and Bitner (1992). Based on the SETD theory, this study has defined the physical environment as 'theatre,' employees as 'actors,' and customers as 'audiences.' A total of 293 online data sample was used for the study. The results have shown that all the three dimensions of service experience (interaction with the physical environment, interaction with the that staff, and interaction with the customer) have a positive impact on customer emotions and loyalty. The study findings can benefit the retail managers in delivering memorable customer experiences. © 2019 SCMS Group of Educational Institutions. All rights reserved.

SCMS Journal of Indian Management

Service experience on customer emotions and loyalty

The merger of “plan” and “pattern” sects of research is essential for the understanding of strategic management understanding and will pose significant methodological challenges. Detailed firm- and industry-level data over long periods will unravel path dependencies. The underlying strategy variables used are causally ambiguous and difficult to measure. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.