COVID-19 pandemic: ethical issues and recommendations for emergency triage.

The current epidemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a public health event worldwide. Through ethical analysis of a series of epidemic prevention phenomena and epidemic prevention measures taken by the Chinese (and other countries) government and medical institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper discusses a series of ethical difficulties in hospital emergency triage caused by the COVID-19, including the autonomy limitation of patients and waste of epidemic prevention resources due to over-triage, the safety problem of patients because of inaccurate feedback information from intelligent epidemic prevention technology, and conflicts between individual interests of patients and public interests due to the "strict" implementation of the pandemic prevention and control system. In addition, we also discuss the solution path and strategy of these ethical issues from the perspective of system design and implementation based on the Care Ethics theory.

Role of regional telemedicine center in medical care.

Objective. To analyze the work of regional telemedicine center for the period 2018-2020 including new coronavirus infection pandemic. Material and methods. A continuous study has been carried out for the period 2018-2020. There were 13.444 telemedical consultations for population of the Astrakhan region including 2.296 regarding high-tech medical care. The following methods were used: monographic, statistical, logical and systems analysis. We applied absolute values, extensive parameters modeling structure and time series with subsequent analysis. Results. There is a significant increase in the number of telemedical consultations from 1.529 to 5.759 (3.8 times) over the period from 2018 to 2020. The number of telemedical consultations increased by 6 times at the federal level (from 208 in 2018 to 1.265 in 2020). In 2020, the number of consultations for high-tech medical care decreased that was associated with re-profiling of the leading regional hospital into a specialized center for the treatment of patients with a new coronavirus infection and significant decrease in the number of consultations during restrictive measures. Conclusion. Telemedical technologies improve availability of medical care, reduce the risk of medical errors and facilitate ear-ly detection of diseases.Copyright © 2021, Media Sphera Publishing Group. All rights reserved.

Pricing Strategy in an Interval-Valued Production Inventory Model for High-Tech Products under Demand Disruption and Price Revision

Due to continuous development in technology, new and updated products are launching in the market more frequently in the area of some high-tech products such as smartphones, laptops, etc. It is noticed that after a certain period of releasing a new product by a particular company some other company develops a similar type of product at a lesser selling price. Customers generally become attracted to buy that updated product causing a sudden disruption in the demand for the first product. The demand for a normal product may also suddenly vanish as we have experienced during the COVID-19 lock down period. The manufacturer is then compelled to reduce the selling price to sell the remaining products. This paper aims at developing a single period production inventory model addressing this particular market condition. This paper also considers carbon emissions from different inventory processes and examines the optimal inventory policies under the cap and trade regulatory policy. Again, in a real-life production system, the various inventory cost components and the carbon emission rates from different inventory processes are not fixed always. To incorporate this issue, the proposed model considers these quantities as interval numbers. The resulting optimization problem is thus also interval-valued and has been solved by using the quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization technique. A numerical illustration is provided to validate the proposed model. Finally, a sensitivity analysis with respect to key inventory parameters is performed to derive some key managerial implications. It is found that the frequency of launching new products is inversely proportional to the optimum profit of the manufacturer. Also, a higher carbon tax rate is found to be beneficial from an environmental point of view.

The Consequences of COVID-19 Disruption on Sustainable Economy in the Top 30 High-Tech Innovative Countries.

This study aims to investigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the innovation index, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), high technology exports, and human development (HDI) in the world's leading 30 high-tech innovative countries. Using grey relational analysis models, the association between COVID-19 and other economic development indices was investigated. The model selects the country least affected by the pandemic from the top 30 innovative countries through a conservative (maximin) method based on grey association values. Data was collected from World Bank databases and analyzed to compare pre- and post-COVID-19 periods (2019, 2020). The outcomes of this study provide essential recommendations for industries and decision-makers with suitable action plans to preserve economic systems from further harm caused by the global COVID-19 outbreak. The ultimate goal is to boost the innovation index, GDP, high-tech exports, and HDI of high-tech economies and pave the way for a sustainable economy. To the author's knowledge, this is the first study to develop a multidimensional framework to assess COVID-19's impact on the sustainable economy of top 30 high-tech innovative countries, and to conduct a comparative analysis to identify the strong and weak effects of COVID-19 on sustainable economic growth.

Innovation and High-Tech Trends and Their Contribution to the Transition to a New Quality of Economic Growth

The paper focuses on trends in innovation and high technology in the COVID-19 crisis and the contribution of these trends to the transition to a new quality of economic growth in the Decade of Action. The research is based on regression, correlation, trend analysis, and variation analysis on the example of the G7 and BRICS countries in 2019–2021. The article contributes to the literature by clarifying the scientific statements of the Theory of New Quality of Economic Growth from the perspective of innovation and high technology. It is proved that the COVID-19 crisis caused not a recession but a rethinking of innovation and high technology—changing their role from a catalyst for accelerating the rate of economic growth to a source of improving the quality of economic growth. The paper substantiates that the effects of the COVID-19 crisis are not so much related to a decrease in the rate but rather to an increase in the quality of economic growth. The author demonstrates that the prospects for a new quality of economic growth and its definition in the Decade of Action are determined not so much by economic crises as by innovation and high technology as mechanisms of economic crisis management. This offers great opportunities to improve the quality of economic growth in the Decade of Action through the management of innovation and high technology, which is much more manageable than economic crises. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Becoming Holy Grail of Health on the Move: Identifying and Prioritizing Factors Affecting the Commercialization of m-Health

The need for mobile-based solutions for healthcare after COVID pandemic is more obvious than ever as mobile itself is an integral part of everyday life. m-Health is not an unfamiliar phenomenon, but despite the progress that has been made in this area, it is still difficult for m-health platforms to enter and stabilize in the market, especially in developing countries. So, in this study, we tried to prioritize the factors affecting the commercialization of m-Health and platforms. By reviewing related researches to the field of mobile health commercialization, 30 main effective indicators in mobile health commercialization were identified. After surveying experts and conducting exploratory factor analysis, these 30 indicators have been prioritized in 6 dimensions of efficiency and effectiveness, market, organizational and legal, technology and infrastructure, property and project management, and macro contexts. According to experts, the most important indicator is the timeliness of technology, and least important factor is the index of technology convergence with the laws and regulations in the field of health and treatment of the country. © 2022 IEEE.

Research on Patent Selection of High-Tech Enterprises under Supply Chain Risk

The transformation of patent is of great significance to the innovation-driven development strategy. In the process of using patents for production, internal and external risks of high-tech enterprises often lead to uncertainty in their output, and COVID-19 has exacerbated the risks. Studying patent operation strategy of high-tech enterprises under such conditions is of great significance to the enterprises and even the supply chain as a whole. In order to study the problem of how companies choose among common patent strategies, previous studies have used algorithms to predict risk. This article constructs a two-party and three-party game model including high-tech suppliers. And the optimal patent strategy before and after supply chain coordination is discussed;The article gives the optimal patent strategy under different conditions. And it is found that regardless of the decentralized or centralized decision, the patent licensing strategy is superior when the potential profitability is small;the patent sharing strategy is superior when the potential profitability is large;and the patent monopoly strategy is superior only when the potential profitability is in the medium size. © 2022 IEEE.

Housing market price movements under tech industry expansion during COVID-19

PurposeThis study aims to analyze the impact of technology-based corporation relocation on housing price indices during COVID-19 within the metropolitan areas of Austin, Texas and Seattle/Bellevue, Washington.The corporations under observation were Tesla and Amazon, respectively. The analysis intends to understand economic drivers behind the housing market and the radius of its effect while including fixed and random effects.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a difference-in-difference (DID) method to evaluate changes in housing price index near and further away from Tesla's and Amazon's new corporate locations. The DID method allows for the capture of unique regional characteristics, as it requires a treatment and control group: housing price index and 5-mile and 10-mile search radii centered from the new corporate location.FindingsThe results indicated that corporate relocation announcements had a positive effect on housing price index post-pandemic. Specifically, the effect of Tesla's relocation in Austin on the housing price index was not concentrated near the relocation site, but beyond the 5- and 10-mile radii. For Seattle/Bellevue, the effect of Amazon's relocation announcement on housing price index was concentrated near the relocation site as well as beyond a 10-mile radius. Interestingly, these findings suggest housing markets incorporate speculation of prospective economic expansion linked with a corporate relocation.Originality/valuePrevious literature assessed COVID-19 housing market conditions and the economic effects of corporate relocation separately, whereas this study analyzed the housing price effects of corporate relocation during COVID-19. The DID method includes spatial and temporal analyses that allow for the impact of housing price to be observed across specified radii rather than a city-wide impact analysis.

Fuzzy AHP approach to evaluate incentive factors of high-tech talent agglomeration

To compete with the speedy revolution of high technological innovation and restarted economy for the post-COVID-19 period in China, governments and organizations should be active in attracting high-tech talent to enhance independent and indigenous R&D capability. Talent agglomeration effectiveness is the strongest endogenous force pushing competitiveness for regional economy and industrial development. Due to the complexity of high-tech talent agglomeration, there are still considerable gaps to evaluate the incentive factors. This study evaluates the influential indicator system by using a hybrid fuzzy set theory extended Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach for proximity to reality from individual, organizational and environmental dimensions. The statistical analysis is adopted to verify the results of fuzzy AHP analysis. This research explores the founding that individual incentives are more important than environmental factors, and environmental incentives are more influential than organizational incentives. Job satisfaction, welfare system, and geographical location are the highest ranking factors. High-tech start-ups should give priority to combine geographical location with political support to reserve site selection or firm relocation for a great effectiveness of high-tech talent agglomeration. © 2022 Elsevier Ltd

The Adoption of Metaverse Systems: A hybrid SEM - ML Method

seeing high-tech medical devices from other nations and witnessing surgery to learn has become nearly unattainable. The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has created cross-border medical education challenging. Nevertheless, to cater to the increase in non-face-to-face education, instructional techniques entailing the 'metaverse' are being initiated in the medical field, since medical staff from all over the globe who frequented the UAE to acquire skills in medical technology and medical students who require to exercise have already had minimal prospects to collaborate closely with patients attributable to COVID-19. Employing video-conferencing technology like Zoom to provide effective medical education is similarly difficult. The research's goal is to learn the perception of students in the UAE towards the metaverse system (MV) used for medical training. The conceptual model includes The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) elements and adoption aspects of perceived value. The research's conceptual model, which connects both personal-based traits and technological features, is what makes it novel. Additionally, the novel hybrid analysis approach will be applied in the present research to conduct machine learning (ML) driven structural equation modeling (SEM) evaluation. © 2022 IEEE.

The moderating effect of managerial discretion on cross-border knowledge search and the innovation quality of high-tech firms in a global health emergency: evidence from China

Purpose>This study aims to analyze the moderating effect of managerial discretion on the relationship between cross-border knowledge search and the high-tech firms' innovation quality in a global health emergency and addresses the following issues: the influence mechanism of different types of cross-border knowledge search on the high-tech firms' innovation quality in a global health emergency;and the moderating role of different dimensions of manager discretion on the above relationship.Design/methodology/approach>Based on the firms' strategy selection methods, the authors divided cross-border knowledge search into three aspects, namely, breadth, depth and balance, and analyzed the impact of cross-border knowledge search on the innovation quality of high-tech firms in a global health emergency, taking managerial discretion as the moderating variable, and divided it into position rights, pay rights and operation rights according to the key rights of firms' strategic management. Furthermore, the authors constructed a theoretical model, and for an analysis sample, the authors collected data from Chinese high-tech firms from 2013 to 2021.Findings>The empirical results show that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between cross-border knowledge search breadth, depth and balance and the innovation quality of high-tech firms. The position rights, pay rights and operation rights of managerial discretion have partially significant moderating effects on the relationship between cross-border knowledge search breadth, depth and balance and the high-tech firms' innovation quality.Originality/value>Considerable literature has grown around the theme of the impact of knowledge search on the firms' innovation quality. Nevertheless, only a few studies draw on the combination of global health emergency, cross-border knowledge search and the innovation quality;in particular, no literature has analyzed the relationship between the three from the managerial discretion perspective. Exploring the above relationships has great theoretical value for enriching and improving knowledge management and innovation management theories and provides a theoretical basis and practical support for high-tech firms to face challenges of a global health emergency and to break through the innovation dilemma.

Evaluating the impact of employees' perception of identity threat on knowledge sharing behavior during COVID-19: The mediation and moderation effect of social capital and reward system.

Quarantine policies introduced in the context of COVID-19 are affecting business operations and slowing down the flow rate of the overall economy. Different degrees and types of threats occur in both the living environment and the working environment during the epidemic prevention, which causes many additional uncertainties. The impact on employees is the identity threat from environment and organizations. This is different from the related research on the identification and impact of the threat before the occurrence of COVID-19. However, in the post-pandemic period, companies continue to strengthen important factors that can increase innovation and recovery, including the role of employee knowledge sharing. The organizational inequity and lack of organizational justice bring about the threat of internal identification in organizations. In order to ensure their own interests in organizations, employees may think twice when sharing knowledge. Therefore, this study explores the relationship among employees' identity threat, social capital and knowledge sharing behavior from the perspective of organizational behavior. In this study, a sample of high-tech employees was conducted, and a total of 434 questionnaires were obtained. The research results show that employees' perception of identity threat has a negative impact on knowledge sharing behavior and positively affects social capital; employees' social capital positively affects their knowledge sharing behaviors; and organizational reward system moderates the relationship between identity threat and knowledge sharing behavior. Based on the comprehensive research findings, this research proposes corresponding theoretical and practical implications.

Key Role of High-Tech Business Incubators Sustainable Governance in the Post-Covid Era

The goal of the paper is to study what effects can be achieved by guiding and supporting tenants of high-tech business incubators and which benefits we can expect for entrepreneurial ecosystem established after pandemic. Many authors have explored social and economic impact that accelerators and incubators can generate, but we can also detect a certain lack of academic literature when it comes to COVID-19 and post-COVID determinants in this environment. Authors have gone deep into interpretive content analysis of secondary sources in order to shed a light on these observations. Examination of previously available research was conducted;top tier academic literature and many articles on the business incubation management were reviewed and many relevant industry reports were analyzed. The goal is to get a hold of profound understanding of the context and qualitative aspect of the narrative created by existing case studies and academic sources. Therefore the emphasis is on narrative and why conclusions should be approached with this in mind, since generalization is partially limited. Focus of the examination is mainly oriented towards high-tech startup business incubators and their contribution to different functions in society. New context created by pandemic dictates new business models, creative spin on traditional frameworks and innovative practices, which are particularly significant for accelerators that nurture high-tech startups. It can be concluded that sustainable governance of incubators can lead to development of entrepreneurial skills and mindset, creation of modern and innovative solutions and business models and progress of society in general. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Prospects for the textile and clothing industry in India

India ranks as the world’s second largest producer of textiles and clothing after China, and is the sixth largest exporter of textiles and clothing in international markets. Its textile and clothing industry is long established, extensive and wide ranging, and the industry fulfils a vital role in India’s economy—not least in terms of employment opportunities and export earnings. Moreover, it remains one of the country’s most important industrial sectors, even though the Indian economy is expanding rapidly and shifting impressively towards high-tech manufacturing and service sectors. In fact, the textile and clothing industry continues to represent India’s largest manufacturing activity, and in 2021/22 it accounted for about 7% of the country’s industrial production, 2% of its gross domestic product (GDP) and 10% of its national export earnings. Also, the industry provides direct employment for around 45 mn people, many of them females. In addition, an estimated 100 mn people are employed in indirect activities—notably in the agricultural sector. The importance of the textile and clothing industry to India’s economy is recognised by the Indian government in its provision of substantial assistance and support. The textile and clothing industry also benefits from India’s huge domestic market, reflecting the fact that the country has a population of 1.39 bn people. Furthermore, this market is growing. Admittedly, the value of the market fell in 2020/21 alone, from US$106 bn to US$75 bn, reflecting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. But by 2025/26 it is forecast to increase to US$190 bn, in line with growing prosperity and a continuously growing population. © Textiles Intelligence Limited 2022.

The Trump Administration's Policy Changes on China and Their Destructive Ramifications for US-China Relations

This article analyzes the change in policy discourse of the Trump administration and its destructive effects on US-China relations. It begins with a retrospective look at the China policies of two prior US administrations, those of President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, in order to show just how significant the shift is. Following the review are analyses of the new policy discourse on China and how China has responded to it, especially in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. The last section of this article discusses a popular theme in recent academic circles: Is a new Cold War inevitable?

Fuzzy AHP Approach to Evaluate Incentive Factors of High-tech Talent Agglomeration

To compete with the speedy revolution of high technological innovation and restarted economy for the post-COVID-19 period in China, governments and organizations should be active in attracting high-tech talent to enhance independent and indigenous R&D capability. Talent agglomeration effectiveness is the strongest endogenous force pushing competitiveness for regional economy and industrial develo*pment. Due to the complexity of high-tech talent agglomeration, there are still considerable gaps to evaluate the incentive factors. This study evaluates the influential indicator system by using a hybrid fuzzy set theory extended Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach for proximity to reality from individual, organizational and environmental dimensions. The statistical analysis is adopted to verify the results of fuzzy AHP analysis. This research explores the founding that individual incentives are more important than environmental factors, and environmental incentives are more influential than organizational incentives. Job satisfaction, welfare system, and geographical location are the highest ranking factors. High-tech start-ups should give priority to combine geographical location with political support to reserve site selection or firm relocation for a great effectiveness of high-tech talent agglomeration.

The role of dynamic capabilities and strategic agility of B2B high-tech small and medium-sized enterprises during COVID-19 pandemic: Exploratory case studies from Finland

This paper focuses on the critical role of business-to-business (B2B) high-tech small and medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs) dynamic capabilities and strategic agility during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the exploratory case studies of 5 Finnish high-tech SMEs, we find that the case SMEs enacted different processes and utilized resources and capabilities creatively to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and leverage it as an opportunity. Findings indicate that agile adaptation and new opportunity utilization were the primary means of dealing with the disruptions the COVID-19 pandemic brought about. These findings indicate effective utilization of sensing and seizing capabilities and engagement with opportunity recognition and discovery to capture opportunities and deal with the impact of the pandemic on their businesses. The results further suggest that the outbreak of COVID-19 triggered a fight-or-flight survival instinct among B2B SMEs due to unprecedented levels of market uncertainty. As such, the sensing capability of B2B SMEs allowed them to identify the market threats and opportunities and understand the prevailing market situation. Accordingly, B2B SMEs seized the identified threats and opportunities by reconfiguring their business models and face-to-face and online operations. The digital technologies facilitated the online presence and promoted communication with existing and new customers. Interesting implications emerge from these findings.

Legal Framework for the Design and Construction of COVID Hospitals in the Russian Federation

The paper discusses the legal framework for the design and construction of modern high-tech prefabricated healthcare facilities. It highlights the challenges faced by design and construction works in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. With limited timeframes, healthcare construction projects are using prefabricated technologies that are supposed to meet the highest of construction standards and allow for operation of modern healthcare equipment. This task is being solved also at the legal level. All things considered, the issues of legal regulation of COVID hospitals design and construction in the Russian Federation relevant require due attention. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: POST-CRISIS ASSESSMENTS

The COVID-19 pandemic, which dragged on for more than two years, led to large-scale shifts in the major sectors of the world economy and affected the S&T sphere. The paper considers the main factors that have influenced innovative development, the choice of S&T priorities by major countries and corporations, as well as the crisis phenomena aggravated in the S&T sphere. It shows the growth of research and development costs in a narrow group of corporations in the biopharmaceutical and information and communication sectors with stagnating costs in other sectors, the large-scale growth of publication activity, the uneven growth of tax incentives from the states, the importance of “open innovations” in modern science. It is noted that the intensity of researches and developments all over the world grew in 2020–2021 even in those companies where the total expenses on science and innovations decreased, thus the consequences of the crisis will be appreciable up to the end of the current decade. Legislative innovations in the technological sphere in the USA were especially noted, comparative estimations with innovative development of China were carried out, and the prospects of technological confrontation between the two countries were outlined. The questions of tax stimulation of innovative activity and ambiguity of definition of expenses on research and development in corporations of information-communication industry were also considered. The trends in the most science-intensive industry, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, which occupies the first place in the world both in terms of spending on science and innovation, and the number of highly qualified jobs, are considered separately. The processes holding back the industry that could not be overcome during the pandemic are shown. Given the fundamental importance of patenting (a strict intellectual property control regime), initiatives to relinquish some of the rights to medicines (including vaccines) associated with the coronavirus and weaken the intellectual property protection regime in the next decade look unpromising. By the end of 2022, we should expect a decline in investor interest in vaccines and a return to the traditional focus of industry companies on rare diseases and the development of drugs against them. © 2022.

Influencing Factors of Enterprise R&D Investment: Post-Subsidy, Sustainability, and Heterogeneity

Sustainable innovation is an important factor for enterprises to obtain core competitiveness in modern society, and only continuous R&D investment can ensure the smooth progress of enterprise innovation. Therefore, this study uses the post-subsidy data of enterprise R&D investment released by Hangzhou Science and Technology Bureau to explore the influencing factors of R&D investment and its sustainability by Chinese high-tech enterprises. In contrast to previous research which mainly focused on the pre-subsidy, this study focuses on the post-subsidy policy of R&D investment sustainability. Empirical analysis methods, such as cross-sectional linear regression and the propensity-score-matching method, were used to draw the following conclusions: (1) The quantity and sustainability of R&D investment of enterprises are obviously unbalanced among regions. Regions where high-tech enterprises are concentrated have higher levels of R&D investment and sustainability than other regions. (2) Under different scales, there are significant differences in the amount and sustainability of R&D investment. Large enterprises have stronger R&D investment strength, while small enterprises have stronger R&D investment willingness. However, the effect of scale on R&D investment will be reduced by regional factors. (3) The evaluation of high-tech enterprises and the enterprises’ R&D investments affect each other. (4) The sustainability of enterprise R&D investment will be affected by enterprise heterogeneity factors, and in turn, the sustainability of enterprise R&D investment will also affect the amount of enterprise R&D investment. Based on the results, the study provides suggestions for the government to make more targeted policies.