RESPONSIBLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP VISION DEVELOPMENT AND ETHICS

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Table 1: Framework of Cross-Border Collaboration Issues
Analysing
Planning
Connecting
Support
Testing
• Finding the gap in the market.
• How it would help the users?
• What barriers are there?
Finalizing the contracts and agreements, planning and building a network and defining
responsibilities and roles.
• Business model design
• Organisation of cross border living lab planning and development process
• Contracting frameworks and partnership structuring
• Elaboration of the common plan
• Defining roles and responsibilities
• Details of processes, procedures and planning
• Methods or tools used for collaborating (e.g.; shared workspace, etc.)
Identifying collaborative innovation opportunities, market development and potential market and
partners selection.
• Potential partners finding and their requirements
• Agreement on approaches and common goals
• Principles of intellectual-property
• Negotiation support and dialogue building
• Collaboration procedures
• Tools for communication among cross-networks
Conducting collaborative testing, innovation, and market-development activities.
• Structuring living labs operations
• Governance models
• Support for collaboration in the network
• Defining the project management and co-ordination tools
• Co-ordination among cross-border living labs during support phase (e.g.; web conferencing etc.)
The product should be tested through pilot testing to ensure it has transferred the technology
through internationalizing the entrepreneurship.
• Facial recognition is required in France product model.
• 5-zones obstacle detection is required in Luxemburg product model.
Adapted from: Schaffers and Turkama (2012).
“XploR” Project: a proposed systematic innovation framework
While the “XploR” smart cane has embedded features of GPS navigation system in it for
aiding the user’s mobility, it this has raised many questions from a user’s perspectives. The
questions range from the adoption of this technology to appropriate route selection, obstacle
detection and avoidance of objects. The adoption of this technology raised questions when
it was introduced in France and Luxemburg to see the potential of internationalising the product.
During the internationalising phase of “XploR” in France, the users were more interested
in the facial recognition system but less interested in 10-meter distance recognition with the
haptic touch. Whereas in Luxemburg, users were less interested in facial recognition and seem
more interested in 10-meter obstacle detection and the haptic touch. The designed technology
requires more advancement and has to stay in the development phase since all stakeholders
could see the full potential of this product as per their needs and requirements. Although
the “XploR” cane assists users in navigating through a GPS navigation system and facial recognition
through assistive technology in normal as well as unusual situations, the users involved
in the internationalising entrepreneurship evaluation have their particular needs to be met.
The traditional tools used for navigation in the past have been enhanced with the embedding
of ultrasonic sensors and signal processing capabilities. The proposed framework depicts the