Based on an ecosystem view of innovation management and in-depth case studies of firms in China and abroad, a novel paradigm of innovation management—Total Innovation Management (TIM)—is put forward in this paper. This new paradigm draws on three distinct areas of recent research, namely the...

Through in-depth investigations and analyses of the Haier case, we enriched and developed further a new paradigm of innovation management—Total Innovation Management (TIM). The TIM framework and the synergistic relationship of the elements of innovation in the company’s innovation management...

A hybrid censoring is a mixture of Type I and II censoring. Type I and Type II hybrid censoring models are considered in this work. When n items are placed on a life-test, the experiment terminates under the Type I (Type II) hybrid censoring when either the r-th failure (1=r=n) or the...

Case-control association studies using unrelated cases and controls may suffer from potential confounding due to population stratification. Bias and variance distortion caused by population stratification in the commonly used allele-based tests can considerably inflate the Type I error rate. It...

Performances of some common confidence interval construction procedures for direct standardized incidence or mortality rate were compared. The asymptotic method, the method based on matching moments, the method based on gamma distribution and the method based on beta distribution were...

The matched trend test (MTT), developed using a conditional logistic regression, has been proposed to test for association in matched case-control studies to control the bias of known confounding effects and reduce the potential impact of population stratification. The MTT requires a known...

Expressing the asymptotic Fisher information in Type II censored data in terms of the hazard function, we show that the factorization of the hazard function can be characterized by the linear property of the Fisher information under Type II censoring. Applying the result to the class of scale...

On the basis of defining the producers in the supply chain of agricultural products, the SWOT analysis is adopted to analyze the advantages, disadvantages, opportunities and threats of producers in the supply chain of Chinese agricultural products. The paper analyzes the advantages of producers...