Perception of innovation in tourism with regard to controversial types of travel: A study of Polish consumers

The aim was to determine how tourism innovations, including controversial types of tourism, are perceived by consumers. The hypothesis adopted was that there would be statistically significant correlations between demographic variables, the respondents’ perception of innovations and their propensity to engage in non-normative behaviour during tourism trips. The study was conducted using the CAWI surveying technique by means of an online questionnaire (N = 407). The respondents had noticed significant changes in the tourism industry and the majority were in favour of those innovations. These mainly related to the development of tourist service infrastructure. The study found a statistically significant difference between male and female respondents with more males in favour of introducing controversial tourism offers to the market. Male respondents were also more likely to engage in deviant behaviour.

Perception of New Technologies: Constructing an Innovation Openness Index

Rapid technological progress is one of the basic processes in the modern world. It is an integral part both in the field of labor and employment and in leisure and recreation. The request for an accelerated implementation of digital technologies in the economy and social sphere, which is inherent in one of the national development goals of the Russian Federation, makes this topic more important. In the presence of technological challenges, people have to adapt to constantly emerging innovations. Meanwhile the perception of innovations together with other individual characteristics and socioeconomic characteristics of different social groups could be considered determinants of openness to technological innovations. Based on this assumption, the authors of this article set the following objectives: they evaluate the openness of the population to innovation (through the construction of the index), examine the perception of innovation (by identifying factors of the perception of new technologies), and test the relationship between openness to innovation and the perception of new technologies. The multi-domain index of openness to innovation combines assessments of individual attitude, acceptance, and trust in innovations related to various spheres of the population’s life. The perception of innovation is revealed through the Technology Acceptance Model and includes: perceived ease of use of new technologies; the perceived usefulness of new technologies; perceived security and reliability of new technologies; and perceived elitist features of new technologies. This study demonstrates that openness to innovation depends upon the perception of new technologies and is differentiated among population groups.

Existentialism of Engineering Marketing and Technological Entrepreneurship in Large Agricultural Enterprises

The authors introduce their vision of modern world understanding by the managers and engineering staff of agricultural enterprises in the era of total communications and digitalization of agriculture, referring to the “seventh sense” as a fundamental instinct for comprehension of reality and existence which places human at the centre. In the technical age, engineering marketing is crucial in terms of perception of innovation technology advantages for development of a new entrepreneurial way of thinking, especially for engineers, given their significant participation in commercial projects of agro-industrial complex. The development of integrated hybrid production in agro-industrial complex for innovative agricultural production taking into account different business lines of various enterprises of the complex is suggested to achieve synergy and build a socially-oriented system. The proposals for business development are also introduced.

Assessment methodology the level of the Arctic region population perception of innovation in relation to demographic development

Предложен методический инструментарий оценки уровня восприятия инноваций населением при решении демографических вопросов. Разработанная методика апробирована на примере арктических муниципальных образований Архангельской области. Проведена количественная оценка уровня восприятия инноваций населением арктического региона. Выявлены особенности восприятия инноваций, которые возможно учитывать при разработке рекомендаций по повышению общего уровня восприятия инноваций, внедряемых в арктической социально-экономической среде и направленных на развитие демографического потенциала. Assessment methodology the level of the Arctic region population perception of innovation in the solving demographic issues are proposed. Methods has been tested in the Arctic municipalities of the Arkhangelsk region. A quantitative assessment the level of the Arctic region population perception of innovation is carried out. The features of the perception of innovation are revealed. These features should be taken into account when developing recommendations to increase the general level of perception of innovations which are being introduced into the Arctic socio-economic conditions and aimed at demographic potential development.

Perception of Innovation Characteristics: Adoption of E-Learning in Vocational Schools of Indonesia

This study aims to identify patterns of e-learning utilization (information sources, the introduction of e-learning before in Vocational Schools, begin to recognize e-learning in Vocational Schools, begin to use e-learning in Vocational Schools, frequency of e-learning usage, duration of e-learning learning and the relationship between subject matter and e-learning) in the Vocational School. It also aims to identify the perception of Vocational School school residents regarding the use of e-learning according to the eight characteristic components of IT adoption innovation. The sample in this study was a Vocational School teacher consisting of 30 teachers. Sampling using a purposive sampling technique. Data collection methods by survey and interview. Reliability testing uses Cronbach’s alpha. Data analysis techniques with descriptive analysis. The conclusion of this study is that the perception of the characteristics of teacher innovation towards e-learning adoption in Vocational Schools as a whole is high at 3.76. The highest component of perception of innovation characteristics is the relative profit of 4.19. The lowest perception component of e-learning innovation characteristics is imagery, 3.55.

The Role and Importance of Innovations for Higher Education

The contents of the chapter refer to innovations in organizations and particularly as their perception processes are implemented. At this point, the role and importance of academic institutions is more likely to be discussed as the internal initiatives for academia are concerned. The main objective of the work was to obtain the systematic approach to the issues of university transformation to such a point that the need of innovativeness at universities is discussed. This is compared against the requirements of stakeholders. The need for solutions is a normative issue, as expected by stakeholders. However, the issue of implementing innovative solutions is a topic of scientific discussion that is closely related to innovation, and which at the same time outlines a new dimension of perception of innovation in both business units and scientific units. Considerations can be made that implementation is the internal function of innovation that verifies in proportion to the radicalism of innovation the possibilities of their practical application.

Social Media and SMEs

This article addresses a research lacuna in the literature with regard to determinants of attitudes and adoption of an innovation (Facebook) in the SMEs sector in emerging economies with particular reference to Indonesia. To this end, five support dimensions: government support, management support, motivational support, technological support and training support were developed basing on existing literature and the established theories in the relevant field. The impact of these support dimensions on managerial attitudes and adoption of innovation were then examined in an organizational setting. Data was collected from a sample of senior managers representing Indonesian SMEs through a structured questionnaire and analyzed using multivariate statistical tools, such as multiple regression analysis. The research revealed significant effects of government support, management support, technological support and training support dimensions on the managerial perception of innovation and direct effects of management and training support on the adoption of innovation. Interestingly, government support dimensions have significant impacted the commitment of SMEs to innovation but not on the adoption behavior of innovation, suggesting that governments' main role would be to ensure commitment of SMEs. This is because commitment is a crucial precondition of adoption behavior. Furthermore, managers' physical maturity (age) was found to moderate the relationship between government support and the perception of innovation. The implications of these interesting findings for SMEs and for the governments in emerging economies to designing an appropriate strategy for effective implementation of social media as an innovation are highlighted in this article.